What’s worse than a maniac with a meat cleaver? Dick Cheney, at least according to “Vice” writer-director Adam McKay. The filmmaker recently spoke to Maureen Dowd of The New York Times ahead of the December release of his Cheney biopic, and he didn’t need a lot of time to think of an answer when asked which political figure is the lesser of two evils: Donald Trump or Dick Cheney?
“Here’s the question,” McKay said. “Would you rather have a professional assassin after you or a frothing maniac with a meat cleaver? I’d rather have a maniac with a meat cleaver after me, so I think Cheney is way worse. And also, if you look at the body count, more than 600,000 people died in Iraq. It’s not even close, right?”
“Vice” stars Christian Bale as Cheney and tracks his manipulative rise into becoming one of the...
“Here’s the question,” McKay said. “Would you rather have a professional assassin after you or a frothing maniac with a meat cleaver? I’d rather have a maniac with a meat cleaver after me, so I think Cheney is way worse. And also, if you look at the body count, more than 600,000 people died in Iraq. It’s not even close, right?”
“Vice” stars Christian Bale as Cheney and tracks his manipulative rise into becoming one of the...
- 11/12/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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