Ben jumps out and yells, get in the car, what are you doing? Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. 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Nell explains that Castillos opponent, Rivera, has hired her old arch nemesis, Pat Candy (played by Billy Bob Thornton). It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. Its also revealed that Candy is the one who ran over the llama during the commercial shoot. Mimicking the behavior in the actresss previous film, Minions, Jane is shown mooning a bus. Others discuss plans but Jane is silent. A timeline of the (alleged) drama involving Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, and Florence Pugh. [9] On October 10, Joaquim de Almeida and Zoe Kazan joined the cast, with Almeida playing Castillo, the former president of Bolivia, and Kazan playing a young woman who finds dirt on political candidates. [10] On October 13, 2014, Participant Media announced that they would co-finance the film with Warner, while Jeffrey Skoll and Jonathan King would executive produce, along with Bullock and Stuart M. Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: As part of your account, youll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. Calamity Jane Bodine (Bullock) was a vaunted political strategist, but the emotional toll of the campaigns coupled with substance abuse problems forced her into early retirement where she may not be happy, but shes grateful that shes calm. The protagonist, Jane Bodine a.k.a. They plan to frighten the people, with the aim of persuading them to vote for the unsympathetic but known Castillo rather than the younger opposition candidates. Although I hasten to add that even by the standards of Bullocks implacable, steel-jawed underacting this is a dull performance. Critic Kenneth Turan has this review. Jane says that Pat Candy is behind the fliers. Facing a general strike and a series of confrontations between soldiers and protesters that left at least 67 civilians dead, Goni imposed martial law in October 2003, and the U.S. State Department issued a statement offering its full support. Screenwriter Peter Straughans script originally featured a male protagonist, but Bullock makes the role her own, from vomiting into a wastepaper basket and mooning the opposition to shrewdly choreographing an on-air attack of tears for her candidate. When Bodine realizes that she brought a liar into office, she has the car stopped and leaves to join Eduardo. David Gordon Greens uneven Wag the Dog-style satirical political romp takes both its title and theme from Rachel Boyntons 2005 documentary about the role played by the gun-for-hire American consultants in the 2002 Bolivian elections. document.write(ts+'script src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad12539a.cgi/v=2.3S/sz=728x90A|970x66A/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>'); You can send in your spoiler to other movies by going here. Bullocks Jane Bodine offers nothing new. And Im not talking about content issues, like language or nudity, Im talking about the message the movie preaches at the audience. By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. It begins poorly, with an odd montage intercut to stagey interview footage in which Bullocks character, Calamity Jane Bodine, formulates an apologia for we-dont-quite-know-what. Some reviews said it was ambiguous. On a scale of laminated-eyebrow drama to Lemon Lady Secrets. There are also two middle finger displays. She reveals she has had mental issues before and suffered from depression. For people who want the vastly more interesting real history of Americas misbegotten meddling in Bolivia just one chapter, of course, in a much larger global story Boyntons film is out there, and so is what happened later. As president in the mid-90s, he had pursued a controversial two-level strategy, extending constitutional rights and policy reforms aimed at Bolivias large indigenous population while also embarking on a widespread campaign of privatization that sold off state-owned industries and natural resources to foreign capital. In Bolivia, altitude sickness (at 12 thousand feet, La Paz is the worlds highest capital) and sickness with the candidate nearly drive her away. The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980s. Thanks for reading the spoiler. Loosely based on true events, "Our Brand Is Crisis," follows Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) and her campaign team when they are hired to help Pedro Castillo win a presidential election in Bolivia. One of the llamas is hit by a truck. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. Available from various digital retailers including Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, Apple, Vudu and others. [8] On September 24, Ann Dowd joined the film. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. It's a game that has a real impact on people's lives, but a game nonetheless. Realizing that her candidate, Senator Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida) cant win by being likable, they decide to use fear as their issue, sell that Bolivia is a nation in crisis, and hes the only many that can save it. Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) Rated R for language including some sexual references. South Africa - DM Listen, 18 Dec Ramaphosa's Renew22 team decides to back Mabuyane over Lamola - When the Renew22 caucus met on Day 3 of the ANC's National Elective Conference, at least 2,400 delegates agreed to support Cyril Ramaphosa's bid for a second term as party president, with Oscar Mabuyane as his second in command. A senior advisor expresses dismay that she has been hired but all shes doing is sunning herself. See list of Relevant Issuesquestions-and-answers. Bodines character loosely channels celebrity political consultant James Carville, one of the Americans who worked on the 2002 Bolivian campaign and a consistent fascination of Hollywood. A llama is shown getting hit by a car. Yet you really have to read between the lines and dig into the subtext of Straughans screenplay to perceive the issues that drove Boyntons film. He overhears him making plans to visit the IMF in New York, and is crestfallen. Maybe Carville and the Clintonocracy were empowering democracy after all, even if it wasnt quite the variety they intended. The premise doesn't really show up until the end of the movie. That is now the title of the Bullock movie directed by indie-film veteran David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), which is also set during a Bolivian presidential campaign and stars Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Scoot McNairy, Ann Dowd and Zoe Kazan as Bullocks rivals or colleagues in the Machiavellian business of reinventing candidates and reshaping public opinion. Before I address the message, Ill review the content. Around the edges of this story about Bullocks character, an especially ruthless consultant known as Calamity Jane, there are a few intriguing hints of other stories about the international financial system, the power of fear in politics and the American understanding of what democracy means when applied to other people in other countries. The boys (all adult age) are living alone because their parents have both died. Candy reveals it was him (via a friend of a friend) who anonymously suggested to the Castillo campaign to hire Jane. Once a political idealist, she increasingly was a strategist for hire outwardly not caring about the actual politics of her boss. The film is directed by David. Jane also has to get Castillo to be totally transparent to her to uncover those skeletons that she might need to deal with, being transparent which he may not be willing to be, not realizing that her own skeletons might pop out to play. ts=String.fromCharCode(60); Jane is seen having a moment of introspection. Jane is elated and tells the communication team to talk to the press and inform them Rivera just used a quote from Joseph Goebbels, the head Nazi propaganda minister. [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. He is a crook. Back on the bus, Castillo explain to Eddie that an effective leader is a father to the people, and that sometimes a father must be strict. Were not supposed to earnestly admire any of these people, but we are supposed to guiltily admire their unfailing ability to guide impossible undertakings, such as the practice of politics, to victory through whatever means. Jane says it will be an honor. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? The story follows a political strategist who's recruited to help the campaign of a Bolivian presidential. Jane wants to overtake it. Not seeing what she highlighted, Candy asks about it. Thats not just naive to the point of idiocy. Our Brand Is Crisis is being released by Warner Bros., but was largely funded by Participant Media, which produces what it calls socially relevant films and documentaries. In other words, in this case the right-wingers are correct: Liberal Hollywood is in full effect. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. Since Im reviewing this film for its DVD release, Ive already taken into consideration the opinions of other reviewers. Later at her hotel room, she is still nauseous from the elevation. In my review of the documentary, I wrote: The process of framing Goni to look like something he isnt could be the stuff of a rambunctious campaign comedy like Primary Colors or, for that matter, the documentary The War Room And parts of Our Brand Is Crisis are darkly amusing. Our Brand Is Crisis. There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. Instead of superhuman strength or projectile spider-webs, this puppet master has in her arsenal a penchant for drinking and smoking, instant access to the perfect quip at the perfect time, and a convenient lack of morality. Verdict. Although she was once a wunderkind of the political strategy community, she lost her last four campaigns, the speculation that being the reason she dropped out of sight. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. They even resort to publishing photos of their enemy with Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie in the background, so that he has to deny being a Nazi. Afterwards, Jane sends 3 Bolivian singers to show up at Candys door. By what name was Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) officially released in India in English? In addition, there are 20+ f-words, s-words (19), and one each of a**, SOB, p*ssed, p*ssy, b*stard, b***h, tw*t, cr*p, and t*rd. She is approached by Candy, who tells her hes surprised shes working on an unwinnable campaign. Some said it was insightful. Castillo had been coached by Jane that if he senses any emotion or tears, to look directly into the camera. Back at Janes hotel, Ben calls and informs her there will be a protest downtown. So those questions remain in the dim and dusty background, behind the quasi-hilarious dirty tricks, the long nights of booze, the almost-condescending interactions with indigenous Bolivians and the rivalrous relationship tinged with both tragedy and Eros between Jane and Thorntons Mephistophelean (and distinctly Carville-like) Pat Candy. Its educational and leaves you with serious thoughts about political power. The image of that boy haunts Our Brand Is Crisis, so that the U.S. strategists who do a bang-up job of getting the wrong man elected to the wrong place at the wrong time look like agents of catastrophe.. Before long the SUV comes to a stop in the heavy traffic on the tiny streets. Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San . Several candidates separate the two. In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Gallo hires American James Carville's political consulting firm, Greenberg Carville Shrum, to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. (Vice) President Selina Meyers (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a stable of advisers including Dan Egan (Reid Scott) and Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) who have internalized and aspire to the Carville cult; its just that reality interrupts to remind them that things dont work like that. The protest is growing in the city. It is only the knowing, salty political consultant who can bridge the gap between political reality and tidy fictional narrative. They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. He cant reconcile that her success also makes her a bad person. Goni was in effect the candidate of the Washington consensus, the guy who would bring a small, fractious and deeply divided country into the established international economic order. Played for laughs? Jane wakes up in her hotel room. Cut back to the interview that opened the film. He calls the police and Jane is seen slapping an officer. Even worse, it turns out to be a humanist, socialist, anti-capitalist message about "the people" rising up to establish some sort of vague communist brotherhood centered . The disillusioned Eduardo joins his brothers at a demonstration of people demanding change. Eddie and his brothers join the protests and are shouting angry chants. She just needs to hear him deny it. It needs a strongman who can handle a crisis. The movie opens with a title sequence regarding the main character Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) and her rise and fall from hotshot political strategist/image . All of them, except Bodine, have already taken jobs as political consultants in other countries. A bra is used as a slingshot, and two shirtless men are briefly shown. The real meat of the comedy, and drama, comes in the ingenious dirty tricks that Candy and Bodine play on each other, which could kick off a primer on the political practice recently known as rat-f**king (although that phrase is never uttered in the film). A bus race ensues around dangerous bends and cliffs. Ben (Anthony Mackie) and Nell (Ann Down) are driving in the snowy mountains (between the mountains, as Jane later corrects them) discussing their plan to sway Jane to work for the campaign of Pedro Castillo, a Senator in Bolivia who is running for President. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". Toronto Film Review: 'Our Brand Is Crisis' Sandra Bullock plays a ruthless political stategist in a role inspired by Rachel Boynton's docu and intended for producer George Clooney to play. Meanwhile, Thornton employs his well-honed smiling/sneering shtick to nicely nasty effect. Janes sidekicksplayed by Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, and Zoe Kazancant make a dent in Castillos mixture of machismo, cluelessness, and the kind of self-serving patriarchal worldview that regards Bolivias indigenous population as a bunch of children who dont know whats good for them. While it would have been nice if the supporting characters were just as well developed (Candys entire purpose seems to be to enter a scene, taunt Jane, and then leave), Jane is a compelling figure, and its unfortunate that the film doesnt match her complexity. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. Illustration by Hudson Christie. Send your questions or comments about this or any other spoiler to: THEMOVIESPOILER.com. At the start of the campaign, which he's hired an American consulting firm to run, he is 28 points behind in the polls and running sixth in the crowded field, he, a globalist, largely seen by the indigenous poor majority, representing approximately 50 percent of the population, as being an elitist, out of touch with their needs and thus generally disliked as a personality. Our Brand is Crisis may be director David Gordon Green's most sterile picture yet, but it's redeemed somewhat by Sandra Bullock's lead performance, as well as a talented ensemble cast . Nevertheless, theres not much reason for you to take my word over theirs. Its yoked to an impoverished Bolivian teenager who believesdespite the angry effusions of his brother and friends in their hillside slumthat Castillo is sincere in trying to bring about economic equality. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. After he does this, Castillo gives Eddie his cufflinks to hold, and it is clear Eddie idolizes him. Castillo's American consultants, knowing that they need ideas outside the box, recruit "retired" political strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine, who has lived somewhat off the grid and has not worked on a political campaign in six years. He denies being a member of the cult. There is something deeply disturbing about American political strategists helping an unpopular politician return back to presidency in a country as different as Bolivia. Policy doesnt even enter into the conversation; its more about scoring points by making your opponent look like a Nazi sympathizer simply by virtue of a doctored photograph. Jane insist they go negative in spite of this, but Castillo says no. "Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. ------------------------------------------. Our Brand Is Crisis review - dirty political dealings in South America. While Rivera is still speaking aboard a train, Jane poses as a worker for the Rivera campaign and tells the conductor the speech is over. Jane gets blasted, leaks misinformation, vandalizes Candys room, and sabotages his candidates rallies the way he sabotaged her candidates. I have to rate it Offensive, due to its foul language, several blasphemies, and Sandra Bullocks bare hiny. Old colleague Nell (Ann Dowd) brings young idealistic Ben (Anthony Mackie) up to the woods to coax Jane down to Bolivia, to manage the presidential campaign of a conservative senator whose prior stint as head of that country was pretty authoritarian. February 27, 2023. But if you can be wary of those things, I do recommend this film. He takes a room across the balcony in Janes hotel, where he can meet her stare, undress her with his eyes, and psych her out. I get it -- Green and Straughan and Participant were trying to make a Sandra Bullock movie that Warner Bros. can put onto thousands of theater screens. (The daughter killed herself as a result.). This is the meaning of the title. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. Jane says There is only one wrong in this, and that is losing. But at the end, the team realizes how wrong they werein a shocking way. [21] It had a wide release in 2,202 theaters for 21 days. And even hes not even that close. That's true even in "Our Brand Is Crisis," a . [4] It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 30, 2015. She comes to realize shes better than that. But it seems as though screenwriter Peter Straughan and director David Gordon Green realized near the end that theyd written a feature-length film celebrating consultants ability to install a lying, oligarchic, IMF-beholden stooge to a South American presidency, and decided they ought to wrap things up more palatably. It received mixed reviews, despite Bullock's performance being largely praised, and was a box office disappointment. 2/4[], Our Brand Is Crisis fun until it gets serious For too long, the stakes play second fiddle to the strategists and even the candidates remain too elusive to make the audience care as much as it should. Loosely based on true events, Our Brand Is Crisis, follows Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) and her campaign team when they are hired to help Pedro Castillo win a presidential election in Bolivia. Ben admires a shiny dark bowl but Nell takes it from him. Privacy Policy and She realizes that she was deceived by Castillo, just like she was attempting to deceive the people of Bolivia. Jane and her team had no idea he would do that. The pacing is. We know this stuff happens, but its still clarifying to see the curtains pulled back. In David Gordon Green's OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, the film is obviously in existence to point out how politics, no matter the nation, are used in gaining votes from image rather than truth. However, when two strategists for a struggling Bolivian presidential campaign pique her interest, she goes down to the South American country to see if she should get back in the fight. Maybe, kinda. She tells Castillo and the campaign that this is no longer an election, it is a crisis. Carville and Greenberg won that election for Goni, after shifting the entire theme of his campaign to the crisis mantra, but maybe they should have vetted their candidate a little better. She showed how American marketing techniques never before used in that region steered a desperate country towards a rich, arrogant former president Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada (Goni), who proved catastrophically out of touch. Kristen Bell to Befriend an Unorthodox Rabbi. At first Jane is defensive, claiming that she was just doing her job, but soon her heart is softened as she realizes the mess she helped to make. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. And yet in David Gordon Greens tale of political fixers, Our Brand Is Crisis, he wants to find hope. Answer. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. Like before, it came from La Paz Grassroots, but this time it really did come from Candy. I can barely imagine the humiliation! Plot out uproarious long-shot tricks against his opponents that always seem to work out even better than hoped? Jane says the llama cant stand the commercial so badly, he killed himself. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. At another commercial set inside a warehouse, several llamas are there, and Castillo is set to compare the future of Bolivia with llamas, who work hard. [16], On August 21, 2014, Bullock's casting was confirmed, playing a retired political consultant called 'Calamity' Jane Bodine, and David Gordon Green was set to direct the film. They make a sling shot out of clothes and shoot something that splatters against Candys window across the foyer. Terms of Service apply. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. Sometimes the portrayal is satiricalRobert DeNiros spin doctor in Wag the Dog, the assassin-like Dylan McDermott in The Campaign, the sex-addicted Kathryn Hahn in televisions Parks and Recreation. Unfortunately, the quote is actually from Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda. Then Jane figures out a hook: To make Castillo more attractive than the frontrunner (a young, engaged populist who represents hope and change), she has to sell the idea that the country doesnt need someone, well, likable. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. "Wake up, this is war. I say, beat Candy because Jane doesnt really care that much about Castillo or Bolivia. 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