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Donald Trump's 'The Art of the Deal: The Movie', Parody by Johnny Depp (Original Post) appalachiablue Aug 2016 OP
"Trump's 'The Art of the Deal': The Movie", Funny or Die, Johnny Depp, The Guardian, 2/11/16 appalachiablue Aug 2016 #1
He 'became' Hunter S Thompson and Depp is brilliant, once again yourpaljoey Aug 2016 #2
Really well done. I enjoyed this immensely Chimichurri Aug 2016 #3
MOVIE, Based on the 1987 Book 'Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal' (2016), 41:26 mins. appalachiablue Aug 2016 #4
The movie is on Netflix right now for those of you with a Netflix subscription. Initech Aug 2016 #5
k and r...nt Stuart G Aug 2016 #6

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
1. "Trump's 'The Art of the Deal': The Movie", Funny or Die, Johnny Depp, The Guardian, 2/11/16
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 02:15 PM
Aug 2016

If you’ve watched the recent Republican TV debate in which Donald Trump deliberately hung back in the wings as he was announced — so that he could come on stage last, and thereby prove himself to be the most important guy in the room — you’ll know that he has already gone beyond satire. Like Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump’s sensational success has rendered satire obsolete.
But his decreasingly funny pre-eminence now gives us this bravura mini-movie from Funny Or Die, Adam McKay’s online comedy channel; it stars Johnny Depp as the bequiffed micro-fascist himself, ranting and pontificating and pointing at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, in a very funny latex-enhanced performance comparable to his South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in Black Mass.

It spoofs the first great phase of Trump’s ascent to greatness, his celebrity as a real estate mogul in New York City of the late 70s and 80s, and the idea is that this is Trump’s own film version of his fantastically preening, mendacious and self-congratulatory motivational book "The Art Of The Deal", from that period.



A wide-eyed kid with all the moxie and nerve that Trump chucklingly recognises as that of his own feisty younger self, attempts to shoplift the book and hides out from the police in the nearest office. This is of course Donald’s own office, and the great man tells the kid how he made it, with “how to” chapters from the book — how to intimidate tenants into leaving the buildings you’ve bought, how to use lawyers to pretend you are not prejudiced against black tenants, how to work with corrupt politicians.

Trump is a twitchy sociopath, obsessed with the holy grail of buying the Taj Mahal casino in New Jersey from Merv Griffin as the ultimate trophy possession and tormented by his constipation — stalking into the bathroom to strive, vainly, to relieve his bowels and plagued with visions of his boyhood self and his own dead body. His vulnerability horrifies him. As he says at the end of the scene: “I think I just had my Oscar moment.” He has lots of very gamey lines. “It’s called real estate!” he screams into the phone. “Not fake estate.” Later, affronted by suggestions that he is bigoted, Trump insists: “I love minorities — they’re sensual … they’re exotic …” Convinced that he is right at all times, Trump blasts: “I’m making the opposite of a mistake, a good-stake."...Read MORE~

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/11/donald-trumps-the-art-of-the-deal-the-movie-review-johnny-depp-funny-or-die-adam-mckay

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
4. MOVIE, Based on the 1987 Book 'Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal' (2016), 41:26 mins.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 03:15 PM
Aug 2016


>WATCH. Johnny Depp, Ron Howard, Alfred Molina movies.

Donald Trump has it all. Money, power, respect, and an Eastern European bride. But all his success didn't come for nothing. First, he inherited millions of dollars from his rich father, then he grabbed New York City by the balls. Now you can learn the art of negotiation, real estate, and high-quality brass in this illuminating made-for-TV special feature, Funny Or Die Presents Donald Trump's "The Art Of The Deal: The Movie." Published June 5 2016.
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