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"Action"
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- We face betrayal by Kuwait.
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Now is not the time for disharmony.
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I demand absolute loyalty from my generals.
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General Vasid?
- Your excellency? |
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- Please leave the room, by the door behind you.
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"And cut"
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Ours is a political drama, it tells a political
story. |
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But it's also a personal drama and a personal
story. |
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- Alex wrote an amazing drama. It is genius.
- The image we have of Saddam is set for us |
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by the newspapers and the media, and I've heard
these scripts just dug right behind that. |
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- It's trying to explore the private life
of Saddam Hussein. |
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- The stuff that we would never know about,
never hear about. |
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- All the corners, the hidden corners.
- May I present to you the victory arch. |
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- It's a bit small.
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- The more I looked into it, the more fascinated
I became in the set of characters |
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and relationships, that swirled around this man.
He surrounded himself with a family. |
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Everybody that was around him was related.
- They are my blood. You understand? |
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And I know a traitor before he knows himself.
- When you are close to power, you can never |
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have real friends. The friend of yesterday is the
enemy of today. |
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- Traitor!!!
- Through his inability to trust, |
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Saddam actually ends up, becoming more and more
isolated. |
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- Now look what you're left with!
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Men who are nothing but afraid of you.
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Sajida, my character, and Saddam they were
in love. They were raised together, |
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and he betrays her.
- My character introduces Saddam to his second |
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wife, Samira.
- Who's the blond? |
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Sajida knows what's going on, and then when she
feels the threat, |
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she turns herself blond.
- You changed your hair. |
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- Do you like it?
- It looks cheap. |
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- She's the factor that kind of unsettles the
family. |
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- Saddam having a second wife, having a second
family, |
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means Uday's position, is possibly put into
question |
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- What if he married her because she was pregnant?
What if they have a son? |
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He will be a firstborn.
- Uday is jealous of people that spend a lot |
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of time with Saddam, and gain credit in
Saddam's eyes. |
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- You're Baba's little son, but Baba won't always
be president. |
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- Uday was a pretty unhinged character, who
thought nothing of, |
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shooting people who disagreed with him.
- Saddam knew that Uday was going to garnish |
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his image in front of the inner circle.
- And he still didn't do anything. |
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- I'll speak to Baba.
- No! |
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- He should know how Uday is behaving.
- Don't you think your father already knows? |
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It will make no difference.
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- The story seemed something of a saga. It was
this swirling set of relationships |
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within this very intense and very closed in
family. |
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- I think Alex understood the question of honor,
the question of family. |
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- It's a great, big Shakespearean tale.
- We haven't been weakened by war, |
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we've been enhanced!
- I was sort of thrilled 'cause I was |
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seeing a side of Iraq, a side of Saddam Hussein,
a side of the family, I've never seen before. |
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- This is my country.
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My country...
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