Bulworth (1998)
Directed by Warren Beatty
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
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Not since Warren Beatty’s bold, but failed 1998 political satire Bulworth has an American film legend played such an anti-PC character.
Hong Kong arthouse director Wong Kar-Wai's stylish and mesmerizing 1995 follow-up to his delightful, indescribable 1994 film Chungking Express can best be described as that film's flip side, following characters on the criminal end as opposed to the police officers in Chungking .
If the recent Bulworth (1998), directed by Beatty, is any indication, he could have pumped some life into this thing.
Beatty's performances—especially in projects like Shampoo , Reds, or Bugsy in which his own creative hand has flexed considerably—always showcase the actor's generous sense of humor in lampooning his own image.
But, without a clearly defined narrative direction, Beatty seems stuck in "Shampoo" mode, relying on his character's earnest buffoonery to carry him through a series of public encounters that more or less say the same thing over and over and over.
As director, actor, producer and co-writer, Beatty has engineered a film as outrageous, cutting-edge and downright fun as Bonnie and Clyde and Shampoo, his gems of the 1960s and '70s.