The Dictator

The Dictator

Movie |

Conspiracy | Dictator

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  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Eva Z. Cabrera, Larry Charles, Matt Lake, John Silvestri, Joseph P. Reidy See all Crew
  • Cast(s): Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas, Sayed Badreya See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 23min
  • Music: Erran Baron Cohen,Chris Navarro,Dawn Lunsford,Alicia Stevenson,Deborah Lurie
  • Award(s): ASCAP 2013 (Won)
    EDA Special Mention 2013 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Unfrosted, Wonka
  • Story:
    The Dictator is a political thriller about a brutal dictator named Aladeen who risked his own life and was kidnaped by a hitman which was hired by his own uncle just in the attempts to keep democracy away from his country.
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6.4/10
IMDb

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STORY, RATINGS AND REVIEWS

Story
The Dictator is a political thriller about a brutal dictator named Aladeen who risked his own life and was kidnaped by a hitman which was hired by his own uncle just in the attempts to keep democracy away from his country.
Ratings

6.4/10

IMDb
The Dictator Review

The movie is mixture of crude humor and politically incorrect jokes which makes it fall in the criteria of highly selective films and is not always the choice of film of the mass audience. The movie without any fails revolves around the plot and even the overall theme of the movie resonates well with the title “The dictator”. It is the story of a dictator who gets kidnapped by a hitman hired by his own uncle. The movie becomes more exciting and appealing to its target audience with the advancement of the plot and the hurling battle of political jokes. The rhythm of the filming scenes and sequences are just so smooth, swift, and dynamic, with an oncoming of comical scenes and jokes. The use of political satire also lends the film an edge and makes it shift towards the edge of excitement and interest, elevating it above the level of a normal gross-out comedy.

AWARDS

Won
ASCAP Award

Top Box Office Films | 2013 | Erran Baron

Nominations
EDA Special Mention Award

Hall of Shame | 2013 | Larry

BOX OFFICE

Budget 65,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 179,379,533 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The mock-Arabic language that Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Nadal (Jason Mantzoukas) speak on the helicopter tour is in fact Hebrew.

Sacha Baron Cohen attended The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012) in character and full costume as Aladeen, accompanied by his "virgin guards". While giving an interview on the red carpet to an unsuspecting Ryan Seacrest he brandished an urn he claimed to contain the remains of deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Cohen then spilled the ashes all over Seacrest's tuxedo. As a result, Cohen was banned from entering the auditorium or participating in the events.

Sacha Baron Cohen wanted to shoot scenes in the United Nations building, but was denied access. Baron Cohen claims the official explanation given to him was "we represent a lot of dictators, and they are going to be very angry by this portrayal of them, so you can't shoot in there." When asked about Baron Cohen's claims, a spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon only responded by saying "Sacha Baron Cohen has a wonderful sense of humor."

The always lifted point finger of Aladeen was inspired by Cuban leader Fidel Castro who frequently pointed in his speeches.

Aladeen has a cadre of all-female guards who purport to be virgins, as Libyan dictator Muammar Al Gaddafi did in real life.

Popular Dialogues

"General Aladeen: [to his pregnant wife] Are you having a boy or an abortion?"

"General Aladeen: Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests."

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