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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuys, I'm pretty sure this whole Jacob Wohl/Jack Burkman scheme is actually.....
....a real life Coen Brothers movie played out in reality.
I mean, think about it. You've got all the hallmarks of a Coen Brothers movie here. Think "Burn After Reading" mixed with "The Big Lebowski" mixed with various elements of some of their other movies.
Basically, you've got a couple of amateur crooks whose inept and poorly planned criminal scheme absolutely spirals out of their control as they desperately attempt to hold it all together.
They create a patently fake PI firm, "Surefire Intelligence", that is so transparently a fictitious entity with fictitious employees. It's about as real as the Soggy Bottom Boys, except with far less musical talent.
I mean, their main Private Investigator's name was "Donald Treehorn."
Donald Treehorn treats objects like women, man.
Now they bring in this other woman, Carolyne Cass, into their mess. And she's this fringe 34 year old self-described "fashion designer" from LA who probably owes money all over town--I mean, she's gotta feed the monkey, man.
And they try to bring her to the press conference, but she's fleeing the interview. She's fleeing the interview!
My only request: They have to recruit Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz for a role.
Perhaps as Surefire Intelligence lead researcher "Simon Frick."
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)The two people involved are just so stupid that they couldn't even pull the thing off. The "lawyer" one couldn't even show up a their "press conference" with his fly zipped. The other one is even more stupid.
The young woman involved got smart just in time. Smart enough, at least, to realize that she could get in big trouble over such a dumbass farce.
I give the entire effort a D- grade.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Which really shouldnt take much but these idiots couldnt tie their own shoes if they had Velcro straps!
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)great senses of humor. As someone who has pulled off some decently large pranks, I always knew better than to target people who could put me in jail.
Those guys couldn't engineer a proper prank, so they tried to do something "for real."
An unzipped fly at a press conference? Sheesh!
brush
(53,854 posts)a great idea.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)that press conference. Dumb and Dumber Redux.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts). . .a "conference room at a Holiday Inn"
Yeah sure. That thing was shot in a basement room just a little bigger than a closet.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)I'm surprised they didn't hold it in the sauna at the gym.
dlk
(11,576 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)I love you!
I've thought the same thing since Trump's emergence, a Coen Bros movie come to life.
Rather sad that Jon Polito is no longer around as he too would be a perfect casting choice.
And then there's Trump screaming "Mah Hair" a la Clooney in 'OBWAT'.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)But contrary to belief, not an Irish monk.
unblock
(52,317 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)And the way things have been going... maybe they will.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)But these guys are such numpties that they're likely to fall into their own wood chipper.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)"Where is pancakes house?"
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"Ya do know there's more to life than a little bit of money?"
Bradshaw3
(7,529 posts)And they peed on our democracy. They peed on our democracy. Shut the fuck up Donnie!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Oh, oh!
If we're picking cast members for the movie ... I always vote for Peter Stormare ... dude's awesome in everything.
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Initech
(100,102 posts)I'd use "The Grand Budapest Hotel":
Elaborate scheme to take down a powerful entity? Check.
Quirky characters with crazy names and weird occupations? Check.
Two-tone color scheme? Check.
Does it go horribly wrong? Absolutely!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)Maybe Alexander Payne.
Basically any director who has a good grasp on the absurd.
Initech
(100,102 posts)In order for it to be a real Wes Anderson movie there would need to be some sort of funeral or cemetery involved. But it does meet all the rest of the requirements.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)FSogol
(45,526 posts)Beavis: heh, heh, let's remove Mueller.
Butthead; Uh, hey, baby. Damn we're smooth.
Beavis: we'll use that picture of the one girl we know.
Butthead: you said "girl", heh, heh
Beavis: we can use Mom's phone number, uh, heh
Butthead: Did you know when you eat rump roast youre eating a cows butt?
Beavis: I am the great hedge fund manager, cornholio!
Butthead: your zipper is open again, heh, heh
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Good one, Sogol!
PunkinPi
(4,878 posts)Link to tweet
(For those who don't know, "corncob" means, someone who has been brutally owned, yet insists that they are victorious in the online discourse despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Via the Urban Dictionary)
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)mucifer
(23,565 posts)mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)needs a rich investor. Who funded their comedy of errors?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)Marcuse
(7,506 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)He still does the occasional speaking engagement - he was at the Bushnell in Hartford, CT about 2 years ago where he had a Q&A with the audience about his life & career.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)How did you not recognize jason bateman??
tclambert
(11,087 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)do w/ these guys (or at least rump's son), especially viewed in the light of how stupid this whole thing was.