Our Brand Is Crisis Page #4

Synopsis: 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. GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia. Battling her arch nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): David Gordon Green
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
2015
107 min
$4,895,965
Website
1,173 Views


Castillo. He is not a winner.

You can smell a winner,

same as me, and he's not one.

Oh. Well, not yet.

But that's why we're here.

It's gotta feel like

you've lost everything,

that you have nothing more to live for.

And we find you,

right in the guts of the favelas,

among the disenfranchised

and hopeless. Okay?

- Does she speak English? No?

- Uh, no.

Tell the little girl that she stands

in front of the slum thing there.

And the effect is all fake.

She falls backwards through the sky.

Castillo catches her.

Okay? Okay.

What? What'd she say?

She say that she doesn't think

that he will catching her.

He's gonna... He'll catch you.

Why would... Why would he not catch you?

Why would he not catch you?

Oh, my God. Let's go again!

Your secret weapon.

So secret I forgot she was there.

- Suck a duck, Hugo.

- You suck a duck.

Why'd you make the little girl cry?

I can't work under these conditions.

You know? And what is she doing?

I mean, I've hardly even seen her.

She shows up and she's sunbathing? Really?

Rich is right. This what Castillo

paid for? This is strategy?

- This looks unprofessional.

- She hasn't lit the fire, Ben.

- Well, somebody light the fire, then.

- Would you just give her a beat?

Light a fire.

- What?

- She don't go do it, mister.

What do you mean?

No, he's going to catch her.

I promise you.

And then she can have some candy.

- Tranquilo, is that...

- Yeah, that's it.

Tranquilo.

We're going to shoot

the commercial, por favor.

That was good.

I see you!

I've got you!

Our proposal will give Bolivia

a brighter future.

Oh, my God.

I know that it will be hard,

but together we will triumph.

Uh-huh. They have two people

that are talking against him.

They're saying that he's not trustworthy,

he's not reliable.

His commercial is horrible.

It's technically embarrassing.

Basically, he doesn't relate

to the Bolivian people.

In my opinion,

it's totally wrong.

- It is unanimous, yes.

- So, are we hearing this?

Unanimous, finding it a joke, the...

The floating down.

Well, I had

to make it look Bolivian,

and like I said,

we had a low budget on the effects.

Comical.

You have to do something to make this

guy seem more likable to human beings.

It's his smile.

- His smile is weird. It's off.

- Where is my strategist?

- Come on, man.

- It's not happenin', you know?

It's like the Bush smile. The smirk.

He won. Twice.

- Karl Rove had to beat that out of him.

- And my strategist?

Where is my strategist?

- She's not...

- The commercial doesn't work, obviously.

Falling out of the sky doesn't work.

- My smile is obviously not good.

- Mmm-hmm.

So where is she?

I'm looking forward to hearing her plan,

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Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan (born 1968) is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England. He was writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays, Bones and Noir. Both of these plays have displayed Straughan's talent for writing dark, twisted and witty stories. His first ambition was to be a professional musician and he achieved this while playing bass guitar with Newcastle-based band "The Honest Johns". He spent four years touring and recording with the band through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s before leaving to take up full-time education at Newcastle University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song "Killer", which appeared on the CD album North of London, a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts. Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution and adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. O'Connor died of cancer, aged 49, in 2010, before the film was released. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. more…

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