John Cusack's Satire Film "War, Inc." Provides New Spin On Modern War
Versatile actor John Cusack has decided to pour his anger over the Iraq war into a new film aptly titled, "War, Inc."
Cusack helped write the screenplay, and the cast is pretty diverse including Academy Award winners Ben Kingsley and Marisa Tomei, and singer/actress Hilary Duff.
Targeting the very political aspects of the war, Cusack is pointed in his criticism and uses the film to capture the anger many feel about being railroaded into a war very few support, but with a wink as it were. Here's more from the article:
"I think the movie should be kind of offensive," Cusack told Reuters about the film, which will be released in New York and Los Angeles theaters on May 23. "I'm shocked at how much good reaction we're getting.""Sometimes with a serious, somber movie, even though they're great and well intentioned, it just doesn't allow you to be outraged because you just get depressed," he said. "This allows you to actually feel like, 'Let's do something subversive."'
In the movie, Cusack plays a hit man hired by Tamerlane to assassinate a Middle Eastern oil minister who plans to lay an oil pipeline through Turaqistan, thwarting the company's plan for sole proprietorship of the country.
"(The movie) was just a reaction to the war and all the insanity behind using the 9/11 attacks to make an imperial land grab in the Middle East," he said. "We really wanted to channel our outrage a little bit into something creative."
We are huge Cusack fans in our house. From his early days starring in teen flicks like "Better Off Dead," "Say Anything" to his great work in "High Fidelity," and "1408" — I think Cusack has matured into one of the greatest actors of my generation, and he's dead sexy too.
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