Korean film director Bong Jun-daw talks about his new film Mickey 17 It's not a parody of the villain played by Mark Ruffalo and Donald Trump, but some critics say the indications to the US president are too many and too specific to deny.
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in Mickey 17Bonn directs a sci-fi action comedy starring Robert Pattinson and will make his English film debut as someone who does a dangerous and inevitably fatal job in Space Colonies.
The film spotted the villain of Kenneth Marshall, the exaggeration rock responsible for space colonies this weekend, asking the director if President Donald Trump was the character's inspiration. Bon said Entertainment Weekly The marshal is “a combination of many different politicians” and “a dictator seen throughout history.”
The expedition is led by Fuffoonish Marshall of Ruffalo, who resonates with the current US president, not just in inflections of his voice, but also in his mannerism. He is, “You're not fired!”, but he is on a boat and hosting his own show. Catchphrase.
Addressing these perceived similarities, Bonn points out that a distressed audience may be projecting their own fears onto the characters. “When we showed films in Berlin and talked to people from many different countries, people seemed to project the most stressful political leaders into Marshall's character,” the film director says.
One scene in particular is drawing a comparison – An attempt to assassinate The bullet intended to kill Marshall is intended to graze him on his cheek, just as Trump miraculously shot him with ears last July. Last month, Bonn said that his similarity with Butler, Pennsylvania, was the I shot the movie 2022 Variety“The director added that after recent events, “Mark Ruffalo was very surprised to see it unfolding in reality, and wondered, 'Did we see Oracle predict the future?” ”
However, a review by co-founder of Chris Gore The threat of moviesand Editor-in-Chief Alan Ng. Other details of the film reveal that they say it's a clear hint to Trump and his supporters.
“There's something like that in the film, 'He's a failed politician who lost the last two elections,'” explains Gore. “The film assumed that certain things had happened in the real world, but not the case. That is, the decisive election college victory over former vice president Kamala Harris. Gore also says that Marshall's character has a “Red Hat Rabies Follower”, a jokey ass, and Ng says Ruffalo will dance very similar to Trump's viral “YMCA dance.”
Ng expresses his disappointment that Ruffalo will play Marshall as “an insane, dictator and dictator.” There is no nuance to that. We should hate men. ”
The threat of movies He was not alone in that evaluation. Clarice Lafrey's IndependenceA Lover of the Movie Writes about Ruffalo's villain. “Yes, he's obviously Trump.” Masculinesays 's Kristy Puchko the avengers Star: “Imitation of the cynical and mercury nature of Trump's signature.” YouTuber Jeremy Jarns QUIPS: “I felt like Mark Ruffalo was a guest SNL, And he was the guy who played the Donald Trump bit this week. purge mask. “
Ruffalo himself said Tonight's show He interviews his performance as a “documentary” snapshot of Trump from his second season.
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“I play a small dictator,” he told Jimmy Fallon on the February 28th broadcast. “At the time – we filmed it three years ago and I thought 'This is on top'” … and now I realized it was completely underrated. ”
“I mean, I made a documentary,” he said.
Mickey 17 is being tracked Become Box office bombthe expected global gross peaked at $40 million over the opening weekend against an expensive $118 million budget.
