I just recently saw a trailer for the film
Motorcycle Diaries, about the life of Che Guevara before he embarks on trying to turn the whole of Latin America into a
killing field. Since promoting genocide, dictators, and genocidal dictators seems to be the primary business of Hollywood these days, I think I know the next logical step. If someone is willing to front the production money, I'm sure Beck and I could write a comedy about Pol Pot.
He's mistaken for a rickshaw driver named Pot Pol. He's sent to a camp where he befriends the guards by devising new ways to kill the other prisoners while the rickshaw driver falls for Pol Pot's french mistress who dissuades him from stopping the killing. His resistance to her bloodthirsty habits makes her suspicious and she eventually figures it out and has to rescue the real dictator from a torture center, leaving the rickshaw driver to die in his place. For any slow parts, we'd have voiceovers of famous americans giving their public support to the Khmer Rouge.
If you wanted an Oscar, we could even make Pol Pot handicapped and/or gay.
Goe, against genocide but for a good laugh.
