Johnny Mad Dog Page #5

Synopsis: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Genre: Drama, War
Production: MNP Entreprise
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
Year:
2008
98 min
Website
321 Views


No one can enter armed.

- I can't leave my weapon.

- You have to.

My weapon is my mother

and my father!

No arm is allowed in here!

Nobody's stopping you from entering.

No arms allowed, it's a hospital.

Who are you to give me orders?

We'll enter today.

Any troops inside?

No, we only have civilians.

They're the only ones who count.

We're the ones fighting the war!

You're just standing around!

You speak English?

We have a wounded soldier,

so we wanna go inside!

You wanna lose your lives?

You know that the president

is already dead.

We control the city now.

We want to go inside and check.

We're freedom fighters!

Take our wounded and we'll go.

Who are you to stop us?

- We brought peace to our country.

- We want inside.

- We want in!

- Open the gate!

We'll kill you all

if you touch that gate.

We'll kill you one by one!

- Back off.

- Call a medic!

Officer!

Get the medics.

We got a wounded soldier.

You got wounded soldiers here?

If anything happens to him,

we'll kill you all!

- Retreat.

- He better not die.

We're setting up a post right there.

If he dies, we'll kill you all.

F***ing UN soldiers, you'll die

before you leave our country.

You're hiding government troops.

If anything happens to him,

all of you all will die.

It's our country,

defy us and you'll die!

If we find government troops here,

you're all gonna die!

Retreat!

Dirty ass!

- Is he your father?

- Yes.

- What happened to him?

- He was hit by a bullet.

- A bullet?

- Yes.

- How long you been here?

- Not too long.

- He'll be okay, all right?

- All right.

- Take good care of him.

- Okay.

Dad,

don't worry.

Everything will be okay.

What we gonna do

with the UN soldiers?

They got a lot of Dogos inside.

We're not afraid of the Dogo people.

We are brave soldiers.

You afraid of the UN soldiers?

Shut your f***ing mouth.

I decided to make

a tactical retreat.

So what do we do now?

We wait for the general's call.

We're all hungry now,

No Good Advice.

Let's kill the f***ing pig.

I'm not ready to kill my pig.

- Kill the pig.

- No!

- We're hungry, kill the pig.

- I'm not ready.

- Don't talk to me like that.

- I'm not ready.

You think it's a human being?

It's better than us?

Everybody's hungry.

- We'll kill it now.

- No.

- We'll kill the pig.

- I said no.

You stole the pig from an old man!

Put it down.

- Put it down!

- No, I won't!

- Put it down.

- No, I won't!

You won't put it down?

- You wanna die?

- For why?

- Put it down!

- That's an order!

You think the pig's yours?

I'll kill it and see what you do.

There's plenty of food around here.

We don't have a good knife

to kill the pig.

- Where you see food?

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Emmanuel Dongala

Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala (born 1941) is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He was Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock until 2014.In 1997, he was dean of Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville when war broke out in the Republic of Congo. Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has aided a number of refugee professors, offered him a job teaching chemistry at the American college. As a chemist, his specialty is stereochemistry and asymmetric synthesis, as well as environmental toxicology. He is the author of a number of award-winning novels including Johnny Mad Dog (French: Johnny Chien Méchant) and Little Boys Come from the Stars. His work is featured in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, and he has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. There is a film based on his book Johnny Mad Dog, a 2008 French-Liberian film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and starring Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed Sesay and Joseph Duo. He was winner of the 2004 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE for Johnny chien méchant. more…

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