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Four Lions is a 2010 British political satire black comedy film directed by Chris Morris (in his feature film debut) from a screenplay written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. [3] It stars Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Arsher Ali and Adeel Akhtar.
Apr 18, 2012 · Four Lions satirises extremism, particularly Islamic fundamentalism and those who chose to sacrifice their own lives. However, Four Lions also satirises the response to terrorism by the British police and intelligence services. What is farce? Farce is a very early form of comedy, originating in France and Britain in the 13 th and 14 th ...
Jul 30, 2020 · The result was the beloved and quote-packed 2010 film Four Lions, which follows four bumbling wannabe jihadis as they plan to blow up the London marathon. A box office and critical hit, it...
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Oct 22, 2010 · In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a ...
Jun 11, 2020 · On paper, Four Lions is a film about a gang of fundamentalists who load up a van full of nail bombs and blow themselves up in the middle of London. They’re clearly all awful murderers, but by...
In Four Lions, Morris represents the sacred and the secular as being far from ‘pure’ and discrete entities. Rather, they have porous borders that blur into each other.
Four Lions (originally titled We Are Four Lions) is a 2010 British political satire black comedy film directed by Chris Morris (in his directorial debut) and written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong.
