Name: El Dictador
Director: Larry Charles
Genre: Comedia
Released: 2012
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Anna Faris

Question 1

What makes a leader just or a tyrant, beyond the power they wield?

Accepted Answer

Extremely crude satirical comedy with frontal nudity, cartoonish violence, and constant foul language. *The Dictator* is a brutal satire by Sacha Baron Cohen that puts absolute dictators and their excesses on the stand, using the crudest humor to expose political hypocrisy. The character of Aladeen, a misogynistic and megalomaniacal tyrant from a fictional oil-rich country,…

Question 2

How exaggerated humor can reveal truths about freedom and democracy.

Accepted Answer

eir excesses on the stand, using the crudest humor to expose political hypocrisy. The character of Aladeen, a misogynistic and megalomaniacal tyrant from a fictional oil-rich country, arrives in New York to defend his regime before the UN, unleashing a series of entanglements…

Question 3

When does sarcasm cross the line between criticism and gratuitous offense?

Accepted Answer

acter of Aladeen, a misogynistic and megalomaniacal tyrant from a fictional oil-rich country, arrives in New York to defend his regime before the UN, unleashing a series of entanglements that forcibly humanize him. The film savagely criticizes anti-Western extremism,…