Nicholas Garrigan é um jovem médico escocês que visita o Uganda. Por coincidência, acaba por se tornar médico de Idi Amin, o ditador recém-empossado do país, entrando para o círculo interno ... Ler tudoNicholas Garrigan é um jovem médico escocês que visita o Uganda. Por coincidência, acaba por se tornar médico de Idi Amin, o ditador recém-empossado do país, entrando para o círculo interno de um dos mais cruéis ditadores de África.Nicholas Garrigan é um jovem médico escocês que visita o Uganda. Por coincidência, acaba por se tornar médico de Idi Amin, o ditador recém-empossado do país, entrando para o círculo interno de um dos mais cruéis ditadores de África.
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- CuriosidadesOn the DVD director's commentary, Kevin Macdonald states that during filming of Idi Amin's visit to the village near the mission, many of the local extras thought it was the real Idi Amin on stage giving speeches.
- Erros de gravaçãoMost shots of Entebbe Airport include a long line of African flags running alongside the terminal, between it and the runway. The line includes the flag of the rebel Republic of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), which neither Uganda, nor any other country, recognized.
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Idi Amin: You are British?
Nicholas Garrigan: Scottish. I am Scottish.
Idi Amin: Scottish? Ha! Ha! Why didn't you say so?... Great soldiers. Very brave. And good people. Completely. Let me tell you, if I could be anything instead of a Ugandan, I would be a Scot.
Nicholas Garrigan: Right... Really?
Idi Amin: He. Except for the red hair, which I'm sure is attractive to your women, but which we Africans, we find is quite disgusting.
- ConexõesEdited from General Idi Amin Dada (1974)
- Trilhas sonorasNakawunde
Performed by Percussion Discussion Afrika
Written by Mike Musoke and Herman Sewanyana
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Forest Whitaker gives a titanic performance as Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator who rose to power in the 1970s. James McAvoy plays Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish physician who travels to Uganda for the adventure and wins Amin's affections, becoming his personal doctor. Garrigan enters into a moral crisis as he begins to realize the kind of man Amin is, and begins to fear for his own life as events spiral more and more out of his control.
Whitaker seizes the chance to play this larger than life character and runs with it -- I've never seen Whitaker give so convincing and transforming a performance. However, as good as he is, McAvoy impressed me more. His performance as Garrigan is not as showy, but it's much more textured and subtle, and his character has the bigger arc from start to finish. Gillian Anderson also does terrific work in a small role as a fellow doctor, who understands things about Amin and the African culture that Garrigan does not.
Unlike other recent thrillers set in African nations ("The Constant Gardener," "Hotel Rwanda"), "The Last King of Scotland" is not greatly concerned with the geo-political implications of Amin's reign. The atrocities he committed against Ugandans are given only the barest of mentions, and the film sticks almost exclusively to Garrigan and the danger he himself faces. Some may think the film is irresponsible for this reason -- that the plight of one man pales in comparison to the plight of thousands, and I can see where a criticism like that is justified. But the movie packs a powerful wallop regardless, and complaints like this seem like quibbles when up against such an entertaining movie.
Grade: A
- evanston_dad
- 21 de out. de 2006
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- US$ 6.000.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 17.606.684
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 142.899
- 1 de out. de 2006
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 48.618.191
- Tempo de duração2 horas 3 minutos
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- 2.35 : 1