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"Dictator" director: Laugh about serious issues
May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
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(CBS News) "The Dictator" director Larry Charles said he and Sacha Baron Cohen are looking to make humor out of things that normally are not funny.
"One of the keys to this movie is to take subject matter, contemporary issues that are pretty serious, and sometimes even grim and find humor and satirical points to make about them.
Cohen stars in the satire as a Admiral General Aladeen, a freedom-hating military dictator of the fictitious North African republic of Wadia.
"I felt like this movie needed to be out there," Charles said. "There's nothing like this out there, as was
"One of the keys to this movie is to take subject matter, contemporary issues that are pretty serious, and sometimes even grim and find humor and satirical points to make about them.
Cohen stars in the satire as a Admiral General Aladeen, a freedom-hating military dictator of the fictitious North African republic of Wadia.
"I felt like this movie needed to be out there," Charles said. "There's nothing like this out there, as was
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