{"id":140,"date":"2005-04-13T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:26:53","slug":"the-interpreter-care-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/04\/the-interpreter-care-factor.html","title":{"rendered":"The Interpreter: care factor?"},"content":{"rendered":"
This movie plot sounds like something you’d find over at Query Letters I Love<\/a>, except it’s actually been made. For 80 million dollars.<\/a><\/div>\n

The Interpreter
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Nicole Kidman stars as African-born U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome, who inadvertently overhears a death threat against an African head of state scheduled to address the United Nation’s General Assembly. Realizing she’s become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia’s desperate to thwart the plot… if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Oh no! An African head of state’s life is threatened! The world has truly gone mad! No wonder no-one will believe her.<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Ossifer! Someone wants to kill an African head of state!<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Pffft! Who’d want to do something like that? Africa is so politically stable.<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Exactly! Don’t you see? The killing of an African leader will have serious repercussions around the world, too horrible to contemplate!<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> My god, you’re right. We came so close to the brink of armageddon back when Ibrahim Bare Mainassara<\/a> bought it.<\/div>\n
Another guy:<\/em> Not to mention Muhammad Boudiaf<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Or Cyprien Ntaryamira<\/a>. Wall Street’s still got the jitters over that one.<\/div>\n
Another guy:<\/em> And Juvenal Habriarimana<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Then there was Melchior Ndadaye<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Another guy:<\/em> Laurent Kabila<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Well, duh!<\/strong><\/em> How far back have we gone now?<\/div>\n
Another guy:<\/em> About ten years. Wait a minute, where’s Africa exactly?<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> You don’t understand. This has special relevance for me, because I am also African.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> You’re<\/strong><\/em> African?<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Well, African-born. I won’t confuse you by specifying a country.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> So that’s why you’re talking with a weird accent that comes and goes at random<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Another guy:<\/em> Now you got a cushy job in New York. Counsellor Troi is sensing White Guilt, here.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Enough with the frickin’ Counsellor Troi jokes, already.<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Anyway, he is African like me, and all countries on our continent are the bestest of friends. Besides, the people of his country will be devestated if their benevolent, competent, democratically-elected leader cannot serve out his full, corruption-free term in office before promptly calling a free and fairly-contested general election.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> What country are we talking about?<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Monkeysflyoutmybuttania. Now are you gonna help me or do I have to call in Bob Geldof?<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Alright, alright!<\/strong><\/em> We’ll help you stop this assassination plot you overheard.<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Well, it wasn’t so much of a plot, as such. It was more like a threat.<\/div>\n
Gut in uniform:<\/em> A threat?<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Yeah, this guy was all like, “I’ll kill that bastard, he’s eaten the last Tim-Tam!”<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Never mind, we won’t let him get killed. Not until he’s safely on his home soil.<\/div>\n
Another guy:<\/em> Unless they just blow his plane out of the sky<\/a> on his way back.<\/div>\n
Our Nicole:<\/em> Or he’s shot<\/a> by his<\/a> own bodyguards<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Guy in uniform:<\/em> Welps, this calls for action. Who’s for donuts?<\/div>\n
All:<\/em> Mmmmmmmm, donuts…..<\/div>\n
(Enter Monkeysflyoutmybuttanian ambassador)<\/em><\/div>\n
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!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Ambassador:<\/em> I am authorised to say that my President has never heard of Johnny Farnham<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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