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Related: About this forumWW84 has Trump as villain!
Pedro Pascal plays a failed businessman, conman, and media personality who acquires Presidential powers and looks exactly like a young Donald Trump. The movie is so-so but te Trumpian character is wildly entertaining.
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WW84 has Trump as villain! (Original Post)
mainer
Dec 2020
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Trump himself is a stereotype. It would be hard to create a villain that is not Trumpy.
Midnight Writer
Dec 2020
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thucythucy
(8,742 posts)1. There's a reference to Trump in "Scrooged."
Bill Murray's character is sent into a sewer by the ghost of Christmas present. Finding himself in this dank, freezing, filthy place below the streets of NYC he says something like, "Looks like Trump Tower."
This of course was years before 2016.
Clash City Rocker
(3,541 posts)2. Maxwell Lord was always a parody of Wall Street types in the comics
But it wasnt until he gained mind control powers that he became a straight up villain.
packman
(16,296 posts)3. Boring movie - too long, mixed plot lines, too many errors
I love my superhero/super-heroine's - but this mish mash did not satisfy
Midnight Writer
(22,974 posts)4. Trump himself is a stereotype. It would be hard to create a villain that is not Trumpy.