Candy can be seen watching the action in the background. ***END SPOILER***. But Boynton has done her own framing: This campaign is a precursor to tragedy. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. Somebody on the Castillo bus says Jane has a great ass! (And she does. Soon enough she is smoking, drinking, and scheming again, signaling to the viewer that shes back to her antiheroic winning ways. Jane gets blasted, leaks misinformation, vandalizes Candys room, and sabotages his candidates rallies the way he sabotaged her candidates. Eduardo, a young volunteer of the Castillo campaign, is deeply impressed by this show of commitment. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". They are then in a restaurant, the entire campaign team drinking heavily. The filmmakers and their stars have fun with the idea that politics is sex for those who want to keep their clothes on. In a restaurant, Jane sits alone until Candy sits next to her. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. She doesnt think the man should change to fit the narrative but instead the narrative should change to fit the man. Vanessa Bryant Settles Helicopter-Crash Photo Lawsuit for $28.85 Million. We know this stuff happens, but its still clarifying to see the curtains pulled back. Jane is a broken prizefighter who has been called into the ring for one last round. So they cop out, closing on an unlikely, feel-good character turn for Bodine. A bra is used as a slingshot, and two shirtless men are briefly shown. She is approached by Candy, who tells her hes surprised shes working on an unwinnable campaign. Eddie replies, what about you? Meanwhile, Thornton employs his well-honed smiling/sneering shtick to nicely nasty effect. The website's critical consensus reads, "Our Brand Is Crisis offers sporadic amusement and benefits from a talented cast, but ultimately lacks enough of a bite to add much of interest to the political satire genre. Hollywood loves it some Ragin Cajun, because hes the closest real-life approximation to the magical political consultant of its dreams. 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 2005 Our Brand Is Crisis was the second documentary about Carville's political work, following 1993's The War Room, in addition to Carville's dramatic acting rsum and cable news career.. 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. Since 2006, Bolivia has been governed by Evo Morales, the indigenous leader whose protest movement led to Gonis downfall. Our Brand Is Crisis Review: Champions of Cynicism | TIFF 2015. 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. "Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. Directed by David Gordon Green. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jason The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. Later at her hotel room, she is still nauseous from the elevation. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. 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. And Im not talking about content issues, like language or nudity, Im talking about the message the movie preaches at the audience. Her words are intercut with footage of newspaper headlines and, oddly, shots of Bullocks hands molding clay at a pottery wheel. Others discuss plans but Jane is silent. They talk about the book and Mephistopheles, with whom Faust makes a wager for his soul. An young actress expresses concern with her part in the ad, which requires her to be caught by Castillo. The pacing is lickety-split, the talk is boisterous, and the cast is all aces. Can Hollywood find a way to take the political consultant character in a new direction? However, when two strategists for a struggling Bolivian presidential campaign pique her interest, she goes down to the South American country to see if she should get back in the fight. It casts a skeptical eye at the gospel of globalization thats preached by Janes team, but its outrage is more directed at cynicism than at any specific system. Available from various digital retailers including Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, Apple, Vudu and others. Our sophisticated political flimflam could make more inroads than the Marshall Plan. Boynton traveled to Bolivia to cover the activity of a high-priced U.S. consulting firm, Greenberg Carville, and Shrum, in the 2002 presidential race, and she had amazingfrankly, flabbergastingaccess. The more you understand politics, the more it obliterates idealism and eventually all you see is a rigged game masquerading as a grand-scale optimism. Eddie and his brothers join the protests and are shouting angry chants. She really truly does.). Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. Bush strategist Lee Atwater, who by his own reported deathbed admission was an unholy monster, and to this day keeps afloat the brand of George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove. LeBlanc discovers Rivera has purchased 27 vehicles with taxpayer money at the cost of about 35-40 vehicles. [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. Kristen Bell to Befriend an Unorthodox Rabbi. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. She is unable to breath and is using an oxygen mask on the car ride to campaign headquarters. Jane next starts a rumor that Rivera is a Nazi, based on no real facts, but a fuzzy picture showing him with Nazi propaganda. As it happens and Im sure all this is coincidental Bolivia contains immense natural gas reserves, the second-largest in South America after Venezuela, whose national resources had been rendered largely off limits to outside investors by the rise of socialist president Hugo Chvez. Castillo's bus is stopped by a group of protesters who don't want the International Monetary Fund in Bolivia. PLEASE share your observations and insights to be posted here. Jane wakes up in her hotel room. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections. 107 minutes Cast Sandra Bullock as 'Calamity' Jane Bodine Anthony Mackie as Ben Billy Bob Thornton as Pat Candy Zoe Kazan as LeBlanc Scoot McNairy as Buckley Ann Dowd as Nell Director David Gordon Green Screenplay Peter Straughan Writer (original documentary) [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". 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. 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? On a bus trip to a mountainous countryside, protesters start throwing rocks at the bus. Its yoked to an impoverished Bolivian teenager who believesdespite the angry effusions of his brother and friends in their hillside slumthat Castillo is sincere in trying to bring about economic equality. He is a crook. 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. February 27, 2023. Covering Rammsteins Du Hast in Berlin. Entertaining and provocative, Our Brand Is Crisis is a satirical political drama. Although the movie has flashes where everything comes together and we can revel in dark victories, more often than not, star Sandra Bullock is left to carry the crushing emotional and thematic weight of a confused picture that acknowledges that politics is a cheap joke, and then expects us all to laugh. Is it money? Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. 17-Down, Three Letters: Party for One artist Carly ___ Jepsen. Among the many achievements of HBOs Veep is its discovery of a new, post-Carville political consultant character, one thats just as cuttingly entertaining but truer to reality. Have they learned nothing? , No amount of political manoeuvring can fix this film [1/4], An uneven mix of cynical satire and breezy comedy. [26] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. "Wake up, this is war. Candy reveals it was him (via a friend of a friend) who anonymously suggested to the Castillo campaign to hire Jane. All this makes for mid-grade entertainment value, at best. ", "Toronto Review: Sandra Bullock Carries Our Brand Is Crisis", "Sandra Bullock Adds Gravity to Bolivian Political Satire", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Brand_Is_Crisis_(2015_film)&oldid=1134072378, Tilda Del Toro as Pedro Castillo's secretary, This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 22:01. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. The police arrive and the demonstration quickly turns into a riot. But when youre reviewing a political drama, you have to be careful to pay close attention. He cant reconcile that her success also makes her a bad person. The rest of the movie is her telling the story of what happened after her resignation. As a result of this, Castillo agrees to start running a negative campaign. for language including some sexual references. There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. The film, directed by David Gordon Green and based on the 2005 documentary of the same name, follows Bullock's character Jane Bodine, a political mastermind brought in to help a Bolivian. document.write(ts+'script src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad12539a.cgi/v=2.3S/sz=728x90A|970x66A/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>'); You can send in your spoiler to other movies by going here. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Jane says its time to go negative. Our Brand is Crisis hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but its still one of the liveliest political black comedies Ive seen in a while. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Jane wants to overtake it. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida. 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 . Instead, both end up outside of their hotel rooms so they can see each other. The protest is growing in the city. The cinematic trope has retroactively kept a light on devilish George H.W. What sealed the deal was that she will be coming up against her long-time arch-nemesis, Pat Candy. Any empathy the audience feels for the nauseous Bodine is likely explained by . At a large debate with all the candidates, Jane is found behind the stage backdrop during the debate. Its cute for a while. Like before, it came from La Paz Grassroots, but this time it really did come from Candy. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. There are also two middle finger displays. From there, Jane uses every trick at her disposal to try and beat Candy. Carville and Greenberg won that election for Goni, after shifting the entire theme of his campaign to the crisis mantra, but maybe they should have vetted their candidate a little better. Our Brand is Crisis is more than just the scenario Jane (Sandra Bullock) is selling to the Bolivian public in hopes of bringing her candidate Castillo from a blip on the radar to leading the. A man in a mask jumps the barrier and smashes an egg on Castillos forehead. A llama is shown getting hit by a car. Thats the problem with focusing a story on the diabolical strategist, the one mythical figure in this godforsaken political system whos got it all figured out. Walking into the room with the campaign team, she gives a fiery and inspirational speech about how important it is to go negative, and that anybody with a problem with that will be given a set of balls. But theres no real fun in determining the extent to which this movie is some sort of a clef expos. Maybe Carville and the Clintonocracy were empowering democracy after all, even if it wasnt quite the variety they intended. Jane says it will be an honor. He takes a room across the balcony in Janes hotel, where he can meet her stare, undress her with his eyes, and psych her out. And yet in David Gordon Greens tale of political fixers, Our Brand Is Crisis, he wants to find hope. Director David Gordon Green Writers Rachel Boynton (suggested by the documentary) Peter Straughan (screenplay) Stars Sandra Bullock There are too many balls in the air, too many uncontrollable outside factors, for any singular figure to get all of this under control, be 10 steps ahead of the curve, and successfully and confidently blaze a trail from pre-candidacy to election to dignified leadership. Our Brand is Crisis (2015) (964) 6.1 1 h 47 min 2015 X-Ray R. A Bolivian presidential candidate failing in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist Jane Bodine. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Karen Kunawicz. Morales government has dramatically reduced poverty and inequality, and presided over one of the worlds fastest-growing economies, right through the crash of 2008. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. Crisis management examples are easy to find these days: We've seen Uber lose 200,000 users in the wake of #DeleteUber and United lose $800 million in value in just a few hours. Were not supposed to earnestly admire any of these people, but we are supposed to guiltily admire their unfailing ability to guide impossible undertakings, such as the practice of politics, to victory through whatever means. GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia--battling her arch-nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy. Answer. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale is completely at odds with the work the protagonist is doing. Comedy-Drama. 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. Underneath it all plays Ten Years Afters Id Love To Change The World, the absolute nadir of Woodstock-era protest rock; the movies sound editor deserves some kind of award for smoothly deleting the songs opening volley against dykes and fairies.. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. See list of Relevant Issuesquestions-and-answers. She just needs to hear him deny it. Nell explains that Castillos opponent, Rivera, has hired her old arch nemesis, Pat Candy (played by Billy Bob Thornton). "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. The disillusioned Eduardo joins his brothers at a demonstration of people demanding change. What makes the campaign more personal for her is that Pat Candy is working for Rivera--their professional and personal history goes all the way back to her first-ever political campaign. Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant strategist, pulse reader and marketing mind. . [5] On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast. [10] On October 13, 2014, Participant Media announced that they would co-finance the film with Warner, while Jeffrey Skoll and Jonathan King would executive produce, along with Bullock and Stuart M. When Jane leaves the meeting with LeBlanc, she instead instructs her to dig up dirt on Castillo, their own candidate. At another meeting with advisors, its revealed the crisis message is working, but not so well that it will win the election. The campaign advisors are telling Castillo he needs to meet with the people and be seen as one of the people. It is revealed that she retired after violating election laws. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. But the fact that it wants to also squeeze in a redemptive tale. 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 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.. 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. 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. 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. All rights reserved. The interviewer says shes been known by many names, most notably Calamity Jane. There are very occasional crude sexual references. The film gives a fictionalized account of the involvement of American political campaign strategists Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. It is considered to be the most important process in public relations." Theres no redemption to be found with the people who are ruining liveswho have no belief in politicians or voters; people who have basically given up on humanity and play with public policy like a kid with a loaded gun. Our Brand Is Crisis. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Answer, Should Christians seek political power or should we only focus on evangelism? 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). 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. She needs a cigarette, so she walks out the door into a large open foyer. Jane is so nauseous from her travel and the elevation she leaves and is heard throwing up. Well, that would be you and me both before and after. Preview", "Star-Driven Casualties 'Our Brand Is Crisis' & 'Burnt' At The B.O. [11] More casting was also announced, which included Reynaldo Pacheco, Dominic Flores, Louis Arcella, and Octavio Gmez. She introduces LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan), a young investigator who is hired to dig up dirt on Rivera. Their main tactic is to emphasize the many problems of the economy and present Castillo as the solution. Castillo says its in the past, and that his wife knows about it, but Jane claims the perception will be that hes an adulterer. During a debate prep session, Castillo and Jane engage in a heated argument in which Jane says they are all just puppets in the political game, and that nobody is in charge. She explains its not relevant whether its true. In the city, Eddie is hanging Castillo posters. She can quote appropriate nuggets of wisdom from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and from the world's leaders and thinkers. He calls the police and Jane is seen slapping an officer. It already has. 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