Its also revealed that Candy is the one who ran over the llama during the commercial shoot. While Castillo is meeting with the press, Jane meets Eduardo. [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. Like before, it came from La Paz Grassroots, but this time it really did come from Candy. Comedy Drama A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate. 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 (2015) Rated R for language including some sexual references. Jane is talking with Nell, and insults her about her dedication to the campaign. Not seeing what she highlighted, Candy asks about it. Its nun versus AI in Damon Lindelofs new series. Vanessa Bryant Settles Helicopter-Crash Photo Lawsuit for $28.85 Million. She doesnt respond. Its educational and leaves you with serious thoughts about political power. 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. Jane is seen having a moment of introspection. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. Plot out uproarious long-shot tricks against his opponents that always seem to work out even better than hoped? Jane highlights something in the book. Click here for all of our TIFF 2015 coverage thus far or peruse links to our reviews below: Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. When people say its a communist movie, I think they are hugely misunderstanding the movies point. Oct. 29, 2015. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jason The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. Candy reveals it was him (via a friend of a friend) who anonymously suggested to the Castillo campaign to hire Jane. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida. The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. So yes, throughout the film, the protagoniststhe ones portrayed as good guysuse communistic propaganda. They plead with him that any negotiations with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) be preceded by a referendum so the people can decide. Jane and her team had no idea he would do that. Exactly who decided that a widely disliked candidate in such a small country merited such attention, alongside such star GCS clients as Tony Blair, the Israeli Labor Party and the Canadian Liberal Party? Answer, Should Christians seek political power or should we only focus on evangelism? Since Im reviewing this film for its DVD release, Ive already taken into consideration the opinions of other reviewers. This satire, directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Straughan, suffers from deficits of wit, wisdom, focus, filmmaking expertise and appropriate tone. (The daughter killed herself as a result.). When she starts giving it back to himpsyching him outthe movie gets really good. [23], Eric Kohn from Indiewire wrote that the movie is all about Bullock's performance, saying "she imbues her part with a ferocious energy that constantly elevates the straightforward material". A bus race ensues around dangerous bends and cliffs. Our Brand Is Crisis grossed $7 million in North America and $1.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $8.6 million, against a budget of $28 million. Um, yes. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. Eddie and his brothers join the protests and are shouting angry chants. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. They are then in a restaurant, the entire campaign team drinking heavily. They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Fliers are discovered, authored by the La Paz Grassroots that say Castillo had a three year affair. But theres no real fun in determining the extent to which this movie is some sort of a clef expos. Jane gets a call from Pat who tells her to turn on the TV. The train begins to leave and Candy is furious. It received mixed reviews, despite Bullock's performance being largely praised, and was a box office disappointment. Castillo promises the people that will happen if hes elected. Another graphic shows the race at 22% for Castillo and 26% for Rivera with 16 days to go. 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. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. Besser. This movie offers us the tale of the fall and redemption of an unscrupulous white lady -- who we know cannot really be unscrupulous since shes Sandra Bullock. 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. Send your questions or comments about this or any other spoiler to: THEMOVIESPOILER.com. Any empathy the audience feels for the nauseous Bodine is likely explained by . There are also two middle finger displays. She opens with footage of an anti-government riot that came less than a year after the election. Janes cynicismshe regards herself, the candidate, and everyone else as a pawnis so over-the-top that it threatens to derail Our Brand is Crisis: Who cares about the election if she doesnt? It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. 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. The big reason it works, though, is that it takes its premise from Rachel Boyntons phenomenal (but little-known) 2005 documentary of the same name. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Our Brand Is Crisis also has deeper themes that punctuate the human cost of winning and what it takes to do just that. Castillo wins the vote by a small margin. During a focus group for the ad in which he catches and holds up several people, its clear the ad does not resonate with anybody. Some of her pranks, specifically one ploy to feed her candidates unsuspecting competitor a Nazi quotation during the campaigns final debate, are good for a laugh. It's a game that has a real impact on people's lives, but a game nonetheless. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. 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. Castillo and the campaign team are on the outdoor set of a commercial for the Senator. What sealed the deal was that she will be coming up against her long-time arch-nemesis, Pat Candy. Lets Do the Thing: How Online Were You in February 2023? On April 22, 2007, it was announced that George Clooney would produce a dramatization of the 2005 documentary Our Brand Is Crisis, along with Grant Heslov, and Warner Bros. would handle American distribution rights. Yes, this is a movie where a diabolical character is given the surname Candy, and what can you really say? SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. 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). "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. The police arrive and the demonstration quickly turns into a riot. ------------------------------------------. [6] On September 15, Billy Bob Thornton joined the film,[7] and on September 18, Anthony Mackie joined the cast. if (window.self != window.top) {nf=''} else {nf='NF/'}; By the way, the bus driver is paid to drive like a complete moron to do it. [26] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. Before a campaign stop, Jane tells Eddie to help Castillo roll up his sleeves. They then shoot the head of the Rivera doll Candy had left, and it breaks his window. 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. Jane is a broken prizefighter who has been called into the ring for one last round. But the filmmakers invent an antagonist of near-mythic stature to make her lust for a win: Billy Bob Thorntons Pat Candy, who works for the leading candidate. A screenshot shows Castillo at 8% with Rivera leading with 36%. The film gives a fictionalized account of the involvement of American political campaign strategists Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. 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. Eduardo, a young volunteer of the Castillo campaign, is deeply impressed by this show of commitment. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. 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. You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. In case the true story behind the baffling and approximately well-intentioned Sandra Bullock star vehicle Our Brand Is Crisis makes any difference, here it is: Way back in the innocent days of 2002 (Im kidding about innocent), the high-powered political consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum parachuted into Bolivia to take up the cause of a struggling presidential candidate named Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada, universally known as Goni. Rachel Boynton, a documentary director whose work focuses on ideology, politics and power (her most recent movie, Big Men, is about the global workings of the oil industry), came along and made an extraordinary film about that campaign, whose title was drawn from a telling phrase coined by one of the GCS consultants. The reality of U.S. politics is dominated not so much by incompetent leaders as mortals who lack the requisite superpowers needed to steer the ship of state. February 27, 2023. Back at Janes hotel, Ben calls and informs her there will be a protest downtown. The deception disgusts her. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. When Jane realizes how much she hurt the country, shes so upset that she actually quits her business and joins the protesters. Politics is a dirty business, but Our Brand Is Crisis doesn't stick its hands into the muck sufficiently to be as entertaining or stinging as it could be. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. Bullock plays Calamity Jane Bodine, a legendary practitioner of the dark political arts who comes out of semi-retirement to navigate the hapless ex-president back to the top job. Jane has accepted the offer and their plane lands in La Paz, Bolivia, which has an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. One of the llamas is hit by a truck. Whats ultimately most frustrating is the evidence that the makers of this movie were fully capable of creating something as smart and ruthless as its lead character. It is only after Bodine arranges for the distribution of a flyer accusing Castillo of a long-ago affair (and blaming it on the opposition) does she finally get him to agree to smear his opponents. And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. [27] Peter Debruge from Variety thought that Jane Bodine, played by Bullock, "is easily one of the best female roles of the last 10 years,"[28] while Benjamn Lee from The Guardian wrote that "Bullock seems blissfully unaware of the films faults and delivers a performance that expertly plays on her strengths - her comic timing, wasted in lesser, plane-ready comedies, is on top form and she imbues her neurotic character with more than the thinly sketched quirks provided on the page; she commands a room when needed, perfects scenes of physical comedy and even turns a climax of forced sentiment into something poignant and believable"; he concluded that "while the film is patchy, Bullock's brand is confidently crisis-free". She may get some help in getting into the mindset of that indigenous poor through a campaign volunteer named Eddie, a Castillo loyalist since he was a young boy much to the chagrin of his friends. A graphic shows with 24 days left until the election, Castillo has 19% and Rivera has 30%. By Manohla Dargis. 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. The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. But once in Bolivia, shes sidelined by acute altitude sickness (the flight down is accompanied by a primer on the geography and general stressed disposition of the place), and hence unable to immediately show her Sun-Tzu-informed genius to uptight candidate Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida). Senator Pedro Castillo, President of Bolivia 15 years ago, is once again running for the country's top job. [24], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. Jane meets with Castillo who says shes a liability. The interviewer talks about his son. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? Answer, Does HIGH MORAL CHARACTER matter in political leaders? 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. The cinematic trope has retroactively kept a light on devilish George H.W. Illustration by Hudson Christie. Played for laughs? The campaign advisors are telling Castillo he needs to meet with the people and be seen as one of the people. Later at her hotel room, she is still nauseous from the elevation. (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) . [17][18] Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carr Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Its cute for a while. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. She comes to realize shes better than that. [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. 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Well, that would be you and me both before and after. 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 . There are dozens of pottery jars and bowls covering the walls. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. Answer, spin doctors / truth and lies in political campaigns, how marketing strategies are use to manipulate the opinions of voters, evaluate the claim that theres only one wrong in political campaigns and thats losing, evaluate the comment, if you fight monsters too long, you become one, VOTINGDo Christians have an obligation to vote? : What The Hell Happened? And in the real Bolivian election of 02, there was no rivalry between warring American spin doctors working for different candidates, because Goni was the only candidate who got that kind of help, in clear preference to his populist opponents on both the right and left. Janes conversion, alas, is over-broad and signaled from the start. Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. All rights reserved. He overhears him making plans to visit the IMF in New York, and is crestfallen. It's a case study, if nothing else, of starting with a dubious idea and making it downright awful. David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. The film is directed by David. Right before the debate with the 3 leading candidates, Jane is sitting alone in the lecture hall, reading Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and is soon joined by Candy. The next scene shows the state department giving an anti-cocaine speech, which will help Volasco. She realizes that she was deceived by Castillo, just like she was attempting to deceive the people of Bolivia. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. She cares about winning, and the movie reinforces the narrative that politics is just a game. There is very little violence. 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. At another meeting with advisors, its revealed the crisis message is working, but not so well that it will win the election. All the stupid tricks are here, the ones people laugh at onscreen in the context of a film like this but fall for in spite of themselves on their TVs during football games. [2/4], The effort by Our Brand Is Crisis director David Gordon Green and writer Peter Straughan to turn the 2005 documentary of the same name into a light comedy with touches of romance and political hijinks leave the fictional version a poor candidate in the box office race. Privacy Policy and He denies being a member of the cult. On a campaign bus heading toward a remote Bolivia location on a small dirt road, they discover Riveras bus is directly ahead of them. The front-runner, Victor Rivera, is a populist who is appealing to the basest emotions of that poor electorate. Jane tells him this is the way of politics, and its not her job to solve problems after the election. And while the role of Calamity Jane smacks of Sandra Bullocks brandingthe smart but painfully self-conscious klutz whos also a depressiveits a complicated, maybe even feminist shtick. Though not without its entertaining momentsthe cast, led by Sandra Bullock, is energetic, sharp and gets a fair number of juicy bits to rock out with. Gonis second term as president barely lasted a year, after his plans to allow an international consortium to build a pipeline and ship Bolivian natural gas to North America at dirt-cheap prices sparked a massive popular uprising. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Please share it with your friends rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); The protest is growing in the city. Mick LaSalle. In the city, Eddie is hanging Castillo posters. [8] On September 24, Ann Dowd joined the film. Our Brand is Crisis was one of these pleasant surprises. That is, of course, when you can get her out of 'retirement' and give her a good reason to . Later Castillo is heard instructing interest rates to be raised to 15%. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Is it money? Verdict. 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. The interviewer says she's been known by many names, most notably "Calamity Jane". That was almost certainly the final straw. 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. 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. Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present . LeBlanc finds even more dirt on Rivera, but Jane tells her to focus everything on finding dirt on Castillo. Thats why in a time of ever-greater political chaos, the character rings so false. Once a political idealist, she increasingly was a strategist for hire outwardly not caring about the actual politics of her boss. So I knew that, in this case, I would just have to find out for myself. 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. Not all movies preach, for example, action movies are usually more about the entertainment of watching good triumph over evil. It needs a strongman who can handle a crisis. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. Still offensive? Sandra Bullock (who shares producer credits with, among others, George Clooney and Grant Heslov) is the reclusive political strategist Calamity Jane Bodine, who turned her back on her profession after one dirty trick too many. Our Brand Is Crisis is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2005 documentary film of the same name by Rachel Boynton. I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. When Bullocks passionately advocating goes negative, or Thorntons smirkingly plays Mephistopheles to her from across their hotel balconytheyre close enough to speak to each other directly, but insist on staying on their cell phonesthe movie builds up an infectious energy. 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. The pottery business is explained forthwith, lest were worried about some Ghost influence. They make big promises that mean jack shit. Getting hurt is unavoidable, she tells him. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. What makes this fictionalized Our Brand Is Crisis worth noticing to the extent it is, which isnt much is that the filmmakers probably believe they are delivering roughly the same message as Boyntons documentary did, but in fact the most important aspects of this striking story has been scrubbed away or laundered into Hollywood-style pseudo-psychological neutrality. 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.. 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