THE FOUR LIONS - Q&A with Director Christopher Morris
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Comedy writer Christopher Morris made his feature directorial debut with this outrageous comedy about a group of young Islamic Brits who fancy themselves bloodthirsty jihadis of the first order.
The Nanovic Institute sponsored the screening of this film at the University of Notre Dame on November 8, 2011.
I just love Four Lions. It does such a great job of satirizing extremists without throwing the rest of Islam under the bus.
*without throwing islam under the bus
"The rest" makes it sound like part of islam is extremist
@@Sam-ng3of kind of like all religions are.
@@Sam-ng3of well, it is. But a part of every religion is “extremist”. It’s unfortunately the nature of religion.
@@buckbumble No shit Sherlock
Some parts don't make sense to me, omar is supposed to be extremist yet they mock his devout brother. Omar's wife encourages him to commit murder and blow himself up like its normal. Yet they treat his brother like he's the bad/crazy one.
Chris Morris is too great for this world
There are some depressing videos of him being interviewed by dreary journalists who are trying to sensationalise it to be oh-so controversial and inflammatory, whilst being completely joyless about Chris' stories of the real life farcical jihadists who inspired the film.
This one is excellent though, some really good questions and his answers are superb.
25:19 - is pretty much the premise for The Day Shall Come, his new film. How prophetic!
Yep
I think it's pretty much the same thing as those Whitmer kidnapping knuckleheads. It's weird that they keep doing this.
RE Chris's question about using animals as bombs, the Soviets did exactly this during WW2. Dogs were fitted with bombs and trained to run underneath enemy tanks. Unfortunately, in a tragedy worthy of Four Lions, the dogs were trained using Soviet T-34s. In the heat of battle, they would avoid the German Panzers and go straight for their human comrades. Thank you Horrible Histories.
ruclips.net/video/_nvfQw8UCDE/видео.html He did sketches about it back in the day
Also bomb dolphins
We've been using animals as bombs for at least 600 years. It was common to set pigs or cows on fire and blast them over castle walls with a trebuchet. In the world wars they used bats/dogs/pidgeons/donkeys. Hell the RAF have even parachuted cats and beavers into Borneo.
@@themadplotter When armies used elephants the opposing forces would cover pigs in oil nd set fre to them and they would run through the elephants legs causing them to panick and stampede through their own side.
Sweet brave Airedale Terriers
Really great talkback... couldn't believe this is the same guy that made that classic series JAAAMMM... what a trip
Chris Morris just blows my mind every time i see him.
The best dynamic was the Omar-Waj one, throughout the film Omar is looking out for Waj who’s clearly the least intelligent/most impressionable one and he’s lucky to have Omar look out for him but in the end it’s Omar that kills Waj by confusing him and using his child likeness , despite Waj openly stating that he doesn’t wish to do it and believes that it’s wrong.
"the more learned somebody was, almost always the less likely they were to be involved in violence" he's saying this in America...Insha'Allah
Great observation. Peace bro
Doesn't mean they don't get other people to do it for them.. that's the case everywhere else..
at first i was annoyed by the audio cut-out halfway through, but then i realised theyd fixed the whining hiss of which im grateful
Thanks for the feedback.
I love the idea that anyone could've thought Morris was an undercover policeman/ MI5 agent until they googled him....
"Are you sure?! Are you sure?! Are you sure?! Are you sure?! Are you sure?! Are you sure?! Are you sure?! Are you sure?!"
ARE YOU STRESSED JEN
Cabbage Snuffler i am declaring WAR
Great film. Nice to find this video. CM is a pretty great guy.
I really wanna see this film. RUclips clips are hilarious! Great stuff.
for rent on g play dor 2:99
The whole thing is one youtube now. It's fucking hilarious
Welcome to the world of UK satire.........
wish we were pals, brass eye changed my life
ILove to see a Q and A session with a Sheffield audience
If you have yet to see Four Lions, you must do so before you fall victim to the possibility of being splatted by a roboplegic wrongcock.
I watched this film on my own hype in my head as I loved Brasseye / Day Today etc..and didn't like it, being honest. I then watched it again on the telly a few years later and thought it was hilarious whilst also imagining it could be uncomfortably close to the truth. Yep, I think this guy is pretty bloody smart whilst also ultimately being a comedian.
+Jacky Jaxon I warn people on recommendation of this, that it isn't going to be just some laugh-a-minute slapstick comedy, or brutal satire. It's got some genuine depth, as well as some fine dark comedy. It's honestly one of my favourite films, but not in the way I was expecting.
saw it twice, sharp humor!
this guy....genius
Such a strong mind
Ok so how do we describe Chris Morris’ Morality and view of “The Best World”?
25:52, hmm yeah that would be a good idea for a satire, I wonder if anyone has written one about that in the years since lol
Eh, even if they haven't I'm sure the day they will shall come
@@slitbodmod5555 The day certainly came...as Chris once again nailed it
i watch whole movie at google play , its pretty sad those fanatics way they think .....and omar brother actually he os religious and always warn him but never listen untill the end he realise his mistakes.
Some of the questions the audience ask were so boring... there are so many complexities to this movie that couldn't be more important to our time... wish I was there to have asked!
The only bit i didnt like was his nurse wife being so agreeable to the suicide. thats nonsense.
my favourite character was Barry.
he should have his own film
I dont think its nonsense if she believes in paradise. Listen to some stuff from westerners who joined the caliphate, one woman was happy her two young children were killed because they were no longer in this world. Faith is a dangerous thing.
The Americans did the same in WW2, using bats though and not dogs and with similar hilarious consequences.
Bomb-dogs?
Yep -- the only way the Germans could stop them was to spray them with a resin coating and the dog would then explode and be fired up to 1000 feet into the air.
Audio
that ringing noise is so fucking annoying
beeeeeeeep
im from Almeria an 7:05 didn't make me laugh. /s
I havnt seen the film but its a plageristc load of nonsense
Yes, it was very plageristc
Come back and tell us what you think when you’ve seen it.
Better yet… don’t.
what was it plagiarised from?
12:43 and indeed it has