I never felt I couldn’t improvise anything. He also discusses some of the potential controversy surrounding the movie and its creator, Morris. ACCLAIMED actor Nigel Lindsay talks about working with Brass Eye creator Chris Morris on new jihadist terrorist comedy Four Lions and finding the character of Barry, a confrontational former BNP member who finds himself at the forefront of a terrorist plot..
With Will Adamsdale, Riz Ahmed, Adeel Akhtar, Arsher Ali. He’s a very angry man. But in order to pre-empt… people try and make a controversy out of it. While real terrorists were busy using horror as a weapon, Morris disarmed them with comedy.Still just as funny and fresh today as it was back then, The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. He also discusses some of the potential controversy surrounding the movie and its creator, Morris.But when Faisal [Adeel Akhtar] gets blown up, we were discussing where he is. Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak and Arsher Ali in 'Four Lions'. They called him the Ayatollah, or something, because he was so dictatorial. Waj then comes back and asks: “Can you drink the milk?” So, it all comes from Chris just shouting random things out. Movies. He takes subjects that he wants to discuss and is very brave about discussing them. It was a nightmare… I couldn’t run properly.But all I know is that we’ve had religious Muslims see the film, we’ve had ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoners see the film, we’ve had families of victims of 7/7 see the film and so far, universally, they’ve laughed and said that they don’t find it the least bit offensive. Social divisions may have deepened since 2010, but Chris Morris' classic comedy can still teach us how to make sense of themTalking to journalists when the film came out in May 2010, Morris spoke about writing the script after watching hours of outtakes from real martyrdom videos in court – some made by the same men who flew a plane into the Twin Towers.“There’s a bit where they’re arguing about who’s cooler, Bin Laden or Johnny Depp,” he told Watching real suicide bombers joke around on camera, Morris realised that the same guys who were topping ‘Most Wanted’ lists around the world were actually just dumb kids who barely knew what they were doing. "She's got a beard" from Four Lions. He allows you to express yourself and that’s all you can ask for as an actor.I concentrated on where Barry’s anger might come from and I decided in my head that his wife had kicked him out because she was having an affair with someone and he’d probably been living in his shed at the bottom of his garden for a few weeks. This, inevitably, they’ll try and say it’s controversial and they’ll try and get Muslims to say they’re offended, but actually if they watch the film it’s a funny film. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. So, you look for parts of yourself.It just so happens that these guys are a terrorist cell but they could be organising a stag night.
There are some directors who are quite dictatorial on set, and he’s not like that. It’s like the Gordon Brown thing, where he called that woman ‘a bigot’, I felt really sorry for him because he had an unguarded moment – which we’ve all had – and yet… he was wrong to say it, but the press jumped on him like a pack of wolves and tried to make something of it because they wanted a story. Directed by Christopher Morris. “These aren’t cold, reptilian killers,” he told Using this angle as way into the wider conversation, Morris wrote Omar (Crucially though, none of them were ever painted as a bad guy. Nigel Lindsay, left, Kayvan Novak and Arsher Ali, in an image from the comedy 'Four Lions.' Barry (Nigel Lindsay) - the white convert to Islam is genius. What I love about Chris is that he’s a director with a capital ‘D’. There are no crises of conscious here, and no attempt to show things from anyone else’s perspective – just four dumbasses driving down the M1 with a van full of explosives, singing along to ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’.
Well, he thought he should be a master of the universe… but he has absolutely no masterful qualifications whatsoever, so he’s constantly frustrated by the fact that no one understands what a genius he is – and I could certainly relate to that [laughs]. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. So where else did that come from? Chris Morris’ corrosive black comedy Four Lions explores the lighter side of jihad. He’d also invented this thing called smooth running, which was running with the explosives on our back, so you had to do that – and the district was suddenly confronted with this 6ft Ninja Turtle running down the street in this weird way. Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay. Advertisement. Menu. There’s a group dynamic in whatever you do.I had to hide in a van in Sheffield city centre during market day and, on a given signal, burst out of it and start running down the street. “That’s the thing that might have confused some people, but he doesn’t see what he’s doing as a bad thing”.In fact, the friendship between Omar and Waj is the heart of the whole film – with no sentiment saved for any of their victims (“I may ask you to blow yourself up bro but I would never ask you to piss in your own mouth…”). You listen to what he wants, but he’s very collaborative at the same time. Cast Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar, Julia Davis I think Chris knows that he courts controversy but he doesn’t do it on purpose.
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