"THIS IS YOUR DICTATOR SPEAKING." It's a great line spoken by a great actor in a great role. From a movie starring several great actors.
For those of you who missed the 1988 film starring Richard Dreyfuss, Sonia Braga and Raoul Julia, I highly reccommend it. It's free on the web and it may have something to say for our times.
To refresh: a not-that-well-known American actor goes to Parador, a Banana Republic, and while there, the dictator dies. For various reasons the powers that be want to maintain the status quo, such as them being the powers that be. A wildly sinister Minister of Defense (Julia) decides to force Dreyfuss play the dead dictator. Hilarity ensues, and the phenomenally fabulous Sonia Braga, mistress (or is it wife?) catches on and together they try to improve the country, opposed by the demonical Julia who has a spine-chilling laugh that alone makes the movie worth seeing. The movie was not well-reviewed, but I don't understand why. It was truly funny and imaginative, but oh well. Not my point.
In today's real-life version, our tall president would have to be played by two actors, like a horse in a kids' play. Fortunately both ends could be the horse's ass.
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