In order to avoid causing more trouble to himself, Yaxiai could only learn to be a stand-in for Uday, learning how he speaks, walks, and eats-but these external things are very simple to learn. Yahiai will never learn Uday's style of acting. He has no interest in those easily available beauties, sports cars, drugs, and violence. But this did not tolerate Yahiai's bargaining, and he was made into Uday as if being driven by a duck.
In this place full of traps, Yahiai could only do Uday carefully. Over time, he and Uday’s seductive and sexy maid Saraba took on a good friendship. At the same time, he also discovered that Saraba was not a simple maid.
As the war between Iraq and Kuwait drew near, Yahiai felt it was time to escape this ridiculous country and this absurd life. However, Uday's minions are everywhere, can he leave so easily?
The behind-the-scenes production
film is adapted from a true story, which comes from the real life of Latif Yahiai. In order to obtain first-hand information from outside of Yahiai's biography, several producers of the film conducted extensive and in-depth interviews with Yahiai. Later, the producer hired Michael Thomas, who had rich experience but not many works, to write the script for the film. Thomas contacted Yaxiai, and after also knowing the prototype of the story, Thomas decided to write the story in a relatively hilarious way.
In order to write the script, he came to Syria to experience life, because Yahiai lived here for a while. In the life of Syria, he witnessed the "remains" of Saddam's regime. He said: "When I come to the center of the story, I can find that there are religious and family life in it. What they hope is that there is a good one. The end of the movie. For the people here, this is fatalism and indispensable. Of course, Westerners may not understand this.” For the sake of watching the movie, Thomas removed the boring life of Yaxiai The boring part puts the focus of creation on the exciting points in his life. He said: "Actually, there are too many horrible things in real life, I did not put them in the script. Even so, this story is enough to move people."
With the script, you need to find a director. Such a film is a challenge for any director. After some discussions, the "multinational force"-like team of producers finally reached an agreement, and they determined that Lee Tamahori would direct the film. Producer Paul Boreus said: "We all think that Tamahori’s "Sunset Warrior" is very good, and his years of shooting experience such as 007 and "Xtreme Agent 2" have also made him It is very suitable to direct this movie. Because there are many scenes of violence, explosions and war in this movie. I think that it can show the tragic color of the script while showing the violence, but also take into account a certain degree of commerciality. No one is more suitable than him."
Of course, the biggest difficulty in making this film is finding the right actors-especially the director wants the same actor to play Yahiai and Uday Hussein. In the eyes of Lee Tamahori, Dominic Cooper is the best choice. After reading the script, Cooper was reluctant to play two roles. He said: "It is really difficult to have an actor play two roles, and it is necessary to integrate my performance with the help of digital technology, the director I really can’t ask for more. But I really like this script. Because the coexistence of tyrannical and absurd temperament in the script makes me a little bit overwhelmed. The plot of becoming another person who is not the same as myself is also letting people Very excited.” In order to play this role well, Dominic Cooper did a lot of preparation work. He found a lot of text materials about Saddam and Uday to read. He has a detailed and thorough understanding of the entire Saddam family and the history of the authorities. Lee Tamahori said: "Cooper's performance is the key to the whole film. Without his outstanding performance and genius creative ability, this film would be unsightly. I really have high expectations of him. And he also showed his professionalism. It was difficult to play two roles, but he completed the acting task brilliantly."
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