They then shoot the head of the Rivera doll Candy had left, and it breaks his window. A bus race ensues around dangerous bends and cliffs. "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. A llama is shown getting hit by a car. And while the role of Calamity Jane smacks of Sandra Bullocks brandingthe smart but painfully self-conscious klutz whos also a depressiveits a complicated, maybe even feminist shtick. She tells Castillo and the campaign that this is no longer an election, it is a crisis. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. Sometimes its both, as in Kathy Bates sharp-tongued, soft-hearted adviser in Primary Colors. She needs a cigarette, so she walks out the door into a large open foyer. 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There is very little violence. [22], Our Brand Is Crisis grossed $7 million in North America and $1.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $8.6 million, against a budget of $28 million. ***SPOILER*** Castillo wins the election, and immediately breaks all his promises and turns out to be a tyrant. He wants to find triumph in a tale that should be satiric at best and depressing at worst. Jane says There is only one wrong in this, and that is losing. But at the end, the team realizes how wrong they werein a shocking way. But once in Bolivia, shes sidelined by acute altitude sickness (the flight down is accompanied by a primer on the geography and general stressed disposition of the place), and hence unable to immediately show her Sun-Tzu-informed genius to uptight candidate Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida). 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. One of the llamas is hit by a truck. The disillusioned Eduardo joins his brothers at a demonstration of people demanding change. 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. 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. Plot out uproarious long-shot tricks against his opponents that always seem to work out even better than hoped? Right before the debate with the 3 leading candidates, Jane is sitting alone in the lecture hall, reading Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and is soon joined by Candy. 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. She reveals she has had mental issues before and suffered from depression. Its also revealed that Candy is the one who ran over the llama during the commercial shoot. He denies being a member of the cult. ***END SPOILER***. On a bus trip to a mountainous countryside, protesters start throwing rocks at the bus. Reluctantly enlisted to help elect the unlikable bully Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida), Jane gets the bit between her teeth when she discovers that her arch-rival, Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), is running the oppositions campaign. The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress, Female Filmmakers in Focus: Cauleen Smith on Drylongso, True Lies Fails to Capture the Charm of the James Cameron Original, Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda. She really truly does.). Its cute for a while. He does exactly that, to Janes delight, when explaining hes not close to his son, but he wishes he was, with tears in his eyes. Filmcast "Our Brand is Crisis" November 6, 2015 Laura Seaman Features , Filmcast , Movies [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join Laura Seaman as she reviews " Our Brand is Crisis " and previews " Spectre " and " The Peanuts Movie " on this week's episode of Filmcast. When people say its a communist movie, I think they are hugely misunderstanding the movies point. She finally just decided to get off the carousel. Jane meets with Castillo who says shes a liability. At a large debate with all the candidates, Jane is found behind the stage backdrop during the debate. Who paid for it? Janes cynicismshe regards herself, the candidate, and everyone else as a pawnis so over-the-top that it threatens to derail Our Brand is Crisis: Who cares about the election if she doesnt? The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. He is currently 28 points behind. She describes the Daisy advertisement, which ran exactly once, that turned the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater. Instead, both end up outside of their hotel rooms so they can see each other. Jane gets a call from Pat who tells her to turn on the TV. But the main mystery to me was the message of this film. She tells Nell she needs to pull some string with her contacts at the Bolivian State Department, in order to take votes from Castillo, and give them to Volasco (another candidate). PLEASE share your observations and insights to be posted here. The opposition's top political consultant is her nemesis, fellow American Pat Candy. "Our Brand Is Crisis" is both the title of and a line from a new political comedy about American consultants who take over a Bolivian presidential campaign. The study of crisis management originated with large-scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980s. As one of his first actions, he invites the IMF into Bolivia, thereby breaking his promise. Rivera is on, holding two babies during a campaign stop, confessing how hes doubly lucky, and promises to run a positive campaign. This password will be used to sign into all, Okay, TikTok, You Can Calm Down About Aubrey Plaza at the SAG Awards Now, All 165 Pink Floyd Songs Ranked, From Worst to Best. Jane is goaded by patronizing men into proving herself in ways shes not proud of. The interviewer says she's been known by many names, most notably "Calamity Jane". Sometimes the portrayal is satiricalRobert DeNiros spin doctor in Wag the Dog, the assassin-like Dylan McDermott in The Campaign, the sex-addicted Kathryn Hahn in televisions Parks and Recreation. More fliers are discovered that claim (with pictures) Castillo is a member of a crazy white-robe wearing cult. She realizes that she was deceived by Castillo, just like she was attempting to deceive the people of Bolivia. It already has. [2/4], Sandra Bullock is the best part of this wobbly farce As a look at the state of the art of political campaigning (in the US as well as in Bolivia), Our Brand Is Crisis does not cut particularly deep and the ending isnt great. What part should morality play in politics? GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia--battling her arch-nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy. Have they learned nothing? Answer. She insists Castillo express regret, but not to apologize. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. They make big promises that mean jack shit. Getting hurt is unavoidable, she tells him. [4] It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 30, 2015. What the hell was James Carville and Stan Greenbergs consulting firm with its close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party leadership class doing in one of South Americas smallest and poorest nations? On April 22, 2007, it was announced that George Clooney would produce a dramatization of the 2005 documentary Our Brand Is Crisis, along with Grant Heslov, and Warner Bros. would handle American distribution rights. . Jane insists to the campaign team that this was set up by Candy. The big reason it works, though, is that it takes its premise from Rachel Boyntons phenomenal (but little-known) 2005 documentary of the same name. In the city, Eddie is hanging Castillo posters. South Africa - DM Listen, 18 Dec Ramaphosa's Renew22 team decides to back Mabuyane over Lamola - When the Renew22 caucus met on Day 3 of the ANC's National Elective Conference, at least 2,400 delegates agreed to support Cyril Ramaphosa's bid for a second term as party president, with Oscar Mabuyane as his second in command. OUR BRAND IS CRISIS barely holds together as the story moves from campaign incident to campaign incident. You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. Fliers are discovered, authored by the La Paz Grassroots that say Castillo had a three year affair. Greens last three picturesPrince Avalanche, Joe, and Manglehornfelt like personal indie films, and Our Brand Is Crisis seems like an attempt to reach back into the mainstream with a mix of comedy and pathos, and yet it also comes off like a journeyman feature. Morales government has dramatically reduced poverty and inequality, and presided over one of the worlds fastest-growing economies, right through the crash of 2008. Eduardo, a young volunteer of the Castillo campaign, is deeply impressed by this show of commitment. 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. Exactly who decided that a widely disliked candidate in such a small country merited such attention, alongside such star GCS clients as Tony Blair, the Israeli Labor Party and the Canadian Liberal Party? That's true even in "Our Brand Is Crisis," a . In David Gordon Green's OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, the film is obviously in existence to point out how politics, no matter the nation, are used in gaining votes from image rather than truth. Please share it with your friends rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); But when youre reviewing a political drama, you have to be careful to pay close attention. This is a competent film that shows how foxy political campaigns can be. Jane wakes up in her hotel room. They approach each other and she just smiles. Available from various digital retailers including Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, Apple, Vudu and others. Finally, she meets with Castillo for their first conversation. In my review of the documentary, I wrote: The process of framing Goni to look like something he isnt could be the stuff of a rambunctious campaign comedy like Primary Colors or, for that matter, the documentary The War Room And parts of Our Brand Is Crisis are darkly amusing. Los Angeles County said all litigation over the crash has now been resolved. Janes sidekicksplayed by Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, and Zoe Kazancant make a dent in Castillos mixture of machismo, cluelessness, and the kind of self-serving patriarchal worldview that regards Bolivias indigenous population as a bunch of children who dont know whats good for them. The pottery business is explained forthwith, lest were worried about some Ghost influence. It starts out with big promises and ends up with jackshit happening.". She comes to realize shes better than that. (R. 107 minutes.) However, Castillo refuses to give permission for the team to do so. She can quote appropriate nuggets of wisdom from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and from the world's leaders and thinkers. When shes recruited for a chance to face off in Bolivia against her longtime and similarly depraved rival, Pat Candyportrayed convincingly enough as a stock Billy Bob Thornton character by Billy Bob Thorntonshe signs up. 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. February 27, 2023. This was the lowest wide release opening of Bullock's career, beating 1996's Two If by Sea ($4.7 million). (A heavy back story is subsequently revealed, followed by an ever heavier back story to the back story.) 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. Cut back to the interview that opened the film. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. And sometimesin fact, I daresay oftenyou know about a half hour into a film that youre going to have to censure it. 2/4[], Our Brand Is Crisis fun until it gets serious For too long, the stakes play second fiddle to the strategists and even the candidates remain too elusive to make the audience care as much as it should. Jane and her team had no idea he would do that. Mostly he is just a funny Southern person who served on a successful presidential campaign; the rest is projected onto him. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. Instead of superhuman strength or projectile spider-webs, this puppet master has in her arsenal a penchant for drinking and smoking, instant access to the perfect quip at the perfect time, and a convenient lack of morality. She spends the night in jail. Shes convinced to step up when she discovers the front-runner has hired consultant Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), her arch-nemesis. Nevertheless, theres not much reason for you to take my word over theirs. The Weeknd responded to a Rolling Stone story claiming the show is a rape fantasy with a clip of his character calling the mag irrelevant. At first Jane is defensive, claiming that she was just doing her job, but soon her heart is softened as she realizes the mess she helped to make. Meanwhile, the senior advisors (Ben, Nell and others) talk about Jane and Candy, how they had sex previously, and how she spread a rumor during a campaign that Candys candidates daughter was on drugs. "[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". All rights reserved. All of them, except Bodine, have already taken jobs as political consultants in other countries. 2023 Vox Media, LLC. And Im not talking about content issues, like language or nudity, Im talking about the message the movie preaches at the audience. Thankfully, were usually too wrapped up in Bullocks great performance to mind the films cognitive dissonance. They reluctantly agree, but the city is in gridlock due to the protests, which are on the verge of becoming riots. But at the end, their methods are exposed to the viewers as evil. [24], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. In its best moments, Our Brand Is Crisis is reminiscent of Wag the Dog; it knows how fucked politics is and acts accordingly. She gives him a bottle of Paul Newman Steak Sauce. 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? Some said it was insightful. Lets Do the Thing: How Online Were You in February 2023? 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. In Bolivia, altitude sickness (at 12 thousand feet, La Paz is the worlds highest capital) and sickness with the candidate nearly drive her away. Nevertheless, his brothers are much more skeptical about Castillo. Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon. LeBlanc finds even more dirt on Rivera, but Jane tells her to focus everything on finding dirt on Castillo. Now, the film is so heavily fictionalized that it's much more an emotive or thematic . Our Brand Is Crisis grossed $7 million in North America and $1.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $8.6 million, against a budget of $28 million. She is approached by Candy, who tells her hes surprised shes working on an unwinnable campaign. Eddie replies, what about you? Well, that would be you and me both before and after. In a Netflix comedy by Katharine McPhees stepdaughter. She will work on the campaign of anybody, provided the money is right. Screenwriter Peter Straughans script originally featured a male protagonist, but Bullock makes the role her own, from vomiting into a wastepaper basket and mooning the opposition to shrewdly choreographing an on-air attack of tears for her candidate. When they get home, his brothers ridicule Eddie for bringing Yankees and trusting them, and for that matter, trusting Castillo. We just want to dive into a pool without having to hold onto our bottoms. Karen Kunawicz. Jane has accepted the offer and their plane lands in La Paz, Bolivia, which has an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. He cant reconcile that her success also makes her a bad person. At another meeting with advisors, its revealed the crisis message is working, but not so well that it will win the election. Later, two senior advisors argue the crisis brand may have worked with the current crowd, but it wont with the working class. Still offensive? 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). Mick LaSalle. Jane also has to get Castillo to be totally transparent to her to uncover those skeletons that she might need to deal with, being transparent which he may not be willing to be, not realizing that her own skeletons might pop out to play. Soon enough she is smoking, drinking, and scheming again, signaling to the viewer that shes back to her antiheroic winning ways. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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. Rated R [21] It had a wide release in 2,202 theaters for 21 days. Did Cirie go too far by bringing family matters into the game? for language including some sexual references. The film starts with Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) being interviewed. 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. The campaign believes Castillo should apologize as soon as possible but Jane disagrees. I found the film to be very interesting, and all the cast put on some of their best performances Ive seen. One woman says he has a weird smile. Janes voice is heard saying, If you dont like the road youre on, start paving a new one.. She pulls from her bag the pottery bowl that Ben was admiring in the first scene, and hands it to him before climbing out of the car. (The daughter killed herself as a result.). The cinematic trope has retroactively kept a light on devilish George H.W. 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. She moved to a mountain cabin, stopped smoking, got sober, and started doing pottery. She doesnt believe hell catch her and he expresses disbelief. The crisis, when it came . Castillo and the campaign team are on the outdoor set of a commercial for the Senator. The news that Jane will be pitted against political consultant Pat Candy, with whom she has a past, is enough to get her away from the wheel. Thats why Hollywood had to invent a character with such powers: the knowing, salty political consultant. There is only one wrong thing to do, she says: Losing. This movie offers us the tale of the fall and redemption of an unscrupulous white lady -- who we know cannot really be unscrupulous since shes Sandra Bullock. Candy reveals it was him (via a friend of a friend) who anonymously suggested to the Castillo campaign to hire Jane. She doesnt respond. Jane says it will be an honor. Its pretty powerful, actually. if (window.self != window.top) {nf=''} else {nf='NF/'}; Our Brand Is Crisis. Jane is elated and tells the communication team to talk to the press and inform them Rivera just used a quote from Joseph Goebbels, the head Nazi propaganda minister. Since Im reviewing this film for its DVD release, Ive already taken into consideration the opinions of other reviewers. When Bullocks passionately advocating goes negative, or Thorntons smirkingly plays Mephistopheles to her from across their hotel balconytheyre close enough to speak to each other directly, but insist on staying on their cell phonesthe movie builds up an infectious energy. While it would have been nice if the supporting characters were just as well developed (Candys entire purpose seems to be to enter a scene, taunt Jane, and then leave), Jane is a compelling figure, and its unfortunate that the film doesnt match her complexity. A one-stop-shop for all things video games. Oct. 29, 2015. But as a whole, "Our Brand is Crisis" is a messy affair that sputters along when it should be humming with assured cynical momentum. Before a campaign stop, Jane tells Eddie to help Castillo roll up his sleeves. But it seems as though screenwriter Peter Straughan and director David Gordon Green realized near the end that theyd written a feature-length film celebrating consultants ability to install a lying, oligarchic, IMF-beholden stooge to a South American presidency, and decided they ought to wrap things up more palatably. 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. Ben admires a shiny dark bowl but Nell takes it from him. 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. Its only when the camera is on top of him that we see the pool of blood. Although Castillos populist opponent doesnt seem to have much integrity (the character does in the documentary), we still know that Castillo has less, that hes a dreadful man. Since 2013, the study of English and history has dropped by a third; the number of STEM degrees, meanwhile, is soaring. This is yet another film that could have been PG (maybe PG-13 due to a mooning scene) with a cleaner script. Since 2006, Bolivia has been governed by Evo Morales, the indigenous leader whose protest movement led to Gonis downfall. There's only one wrong in this, only one, and that is losing!". The political comedy Our Brand Is Crisis stars Sandra Bullock as an American campaign strategist hired to work for a Bolivian presidential candidate. The interviewer talks about his son. As a result of this, Castillo agrees to start running a negative campaign. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Jane is seen having a moment of introspection. When youre in the movie reviewing ministry, a variety of messages and agendas come and go. Old colleague Nell (Ann Dowd) brings young idealistic Ben (Anthony Mackie) up to the woods to coax Jane down to Bolivia, to manage the presidential campaign of a conservative senator whose prior stint as head of that country was pretty authoritarian. All rights reserved. "Wake up, this is war. Its very obvious when shes going to do it, so it would be easy for viewers to close their eyes until all the yelling and laughter dies down. Although she was once a wunderkind of the political strategy community, she lost her last four campaigns, the speculation that being the reason she dropped out of sight. "- Castillo: This llama will lead us toward prosperity. 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