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Kingsman: The Secret Service features a big movie first in the vein of The Interview, and comes courtesy of President Obama’s biggest critic: Rupert Murdoch. [Warning: Spoilers]
British action-adventure Kingsman: The Secret Service features Colin Firth as a dapper, tailored super spy, Samuel L. Jackson as an evil billionaire with a Russell Simmons lisp, and slick shenanigans that’d make James Bond jealous. It also boasts a controversial moment that rivals the explosive, hacker-baiting money shot that earned Sony’s The Interview the ire of North Korea.
(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
In a sequence that should get tongues wagging at distributor 20th Century Fox’s sister network Fox News (also owned by Rupert Murdoch), the cheeky comic book movie from Kick-*** director Matthew Vaughn makes history—not for reinventing the spy genre, but for being the first major studio film to kill President Barack Obama.
Loosely adapted from Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ comic book, Kingsman follows a street-smart London lad (Taron Egerton) who joins a top secret spy agency housed in a Savile Row haberdashery and must save the world from a Google Glass-wearing supervillain named Valentine (Jackson).
Valentine, you see, is a disillusioned eco-philanthropist with a drastic plan to solve overpopulation: First, give free cellphones to the masses. Next, trigger a homicide-inducing subliminal frequency from the safety of a mountaintop bunker and sit back and watch as the population exterminates itself.
But before he gets to “V-Day,” Valentine and his Ginsu-legged henchwoman need help to set the plan in motion. They recruit celebrities, influencers, and politicians in their scheme to save the world’s elite class and imprison the honorable who refuse, like the Princess of Sweden, or, you know, Iggy Azalea. In one scene, Valentine makes his pitch to an enthusiastic candidate before the camera pulls back to reveal none other than President Obama.
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The First Hollywood Movie to Kill Obama - The Daily Beast
Kingsman: The Secret Service features a big movie first in the vein of The Interview, and comes courtesy of President Obama’s biggest critic: Rupert Murdoch. [Warning: Spoilers]
British action-adventure Kingsman: The Secret Service features Colin Firth as a dapper, tailored super spy, Samuel L. Jackson as an evil billionaire with a Russell Simmons lisp, and slick shenanigans that’d make James Bond jealous. It also boasts a controversial moment that rivals the explosive, hacker-baiting money shot that earned Sony’s The Interview the ire of North Korea.
(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
In a sequence that should get tongues wagging at distributor 20th Century Fox’s sister network Fox News (also owned by Rupert Murdoch), the cheeky comic book movie from Kick-*** director Matthew Vaughn makes history—not for reinventing the spy genre, but for being the first major studio film to kill President Barack Obama.
Loosely adapted from Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ comic book, Kingsman follows a street-smart London lad (Taron Egerton) who joins a top secret spy agency housed in a Savile Row haberdashery and must save the world from a Google Glass-wearing supervillain named Valentine (Jackson).
Valentine, you see, is a disillusioned eco-philanthropist with a drastic plan to solve overpopulation: First, give free cellphones to the masses. Next, trigger a homicide-inducing subliminal frequency from the safety of a mountaintop bunker and sit back and watch as the population exterminates itself.
But before he gets to “V-Day,” Valentine and his Ginsu-legged henchwoman need help to set the plan in motion. They recruit celebrities, influencers, and politicians in their scheme to save the world’s elite class and imprison the honorable who refuse, like the Princess of Sweden, or, you know, Iggy Azalea. In one scene, Valentine makes his pitch to an enthusiastic candidate before the camera pulls back to reveal none other than President Obama.
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The First Hollywood Movie to Kill Obama - The Daily Beast
