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* DesignatedHero: The titular "guerillas". Oh, Salman Rushdie is evil no doubt, but what really makes the protagonists' jihad personal is their sister's death, which Rushdie was merely indirectly related. But since she participated in a protest against his book, her brothers place the blame squarely on Rushdie's soldiers and will literally not stop until they make him pay. They so much say that if everyone in the world looked like him, they'd ''have to kill them all''.
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* DesignatedHero: The titular "guerillas". Oh, Salman Rushdie is evil no doubt, but what really makes the protagonists' jihad personal is their sister's death, which Rushdie was merely indirectly related.had no personal involvement in. But since she participated in a protest against his book, her brothers place the blame squarely on Rushdie's soldiers and will literally not stop until they make him pay. They so much say that if everyone in the world looked like him, they'd ''have to kill them all''.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: Rushdie is portrayed as a CardCarryingVillain, but the fact that the protagonists are a trio of narrow-minded fanatics who want to kill him for something he had no part in makes him look less like an evil mastermind and more like someone who's simply trying to defend himself.
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* AcceptableTargets: From a non-Western perspective at least:
** Because of the controversial subject regarding the book he wrote in real life, Salman Rushdie is portrayed as the evil incarnate in the movie.
** Israeli Jews are also shown in negative light, since they are depicted as Rushdie's private soldiers and enforcers.
** On a smaller and somewhat surprising note, Arabs are allied with him as well. This has something to do with rich Arabs being viewed as "Western puppets" by many Muslims. For what is worth, they don't really do much unlike the Jews since they only show up to establish being friendly with the BigBad.
** Because of the controversial subject regarding the book he wrote in real life, Salman Rushdie is portrayed as the evil incarnate in the movie.
** Israeli Jews are also shown in negative light, since they are depicted as Rushdie's private soldiers and enforcers.
** On a smaller and somewhat surprising note, Arabs are allied with him as well. This has something to do with rich Arabs being viewed as "Western puppets" by many Muslims. For what is worth, they don't really do much unlike the Jews since they only show up to establish being friendly with the BigBad.
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* ValuesDissonance: This movie was extremely popular in its home country. It's hard to imagine this movie being made in the West, except [[PoesLaw if it was satire]] (though to be fair, producers stated that MoneyDearBoy was the main motivation).
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* ValuesDissonance: This movie was extremely popular in its home country. It's hard to imagine this movie being made in the West, except [[PoesLaw if it was satire]] (though to be fair, producers stated that MoneyDearBoy was the main motivation).motivation).
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* SoBadItsGood: If one can look past the movie's repetitive nature [[note]]lots of driving, copy-paste fighting sequences, dancing and there isn't a lot of story going on [[/note]] or isn't bothered by the real-life context which may be uncomfortable for some [[note]] the movie's villain is an over-the-top caricature of an author targeted by Islamic extremists because his book was deemed offensive [[/note]], then it can certainly qualify as this because of it's absurdist style.
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* {{Padding}}: This is a two and a half hours movie and you feel it, due to the prolonged action and driving scenes and arguably the musical/dancing numbers.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: In the West, this movie is ''very'' contentious for its [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade blatant demonization]] of a man more accurately characterized as a ''victim'' of Islamic extremism.
* {{Padding}}: This is a two and a half hours movie and you feel it, due to the prolonged action and driving scenes and arguably the musical/dancing numbers.
* {{Padding}}: This is a two and a half hours movie and you feel it, due to the prolonged action and driving scenes and arguably the musical/dancing numbers.
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** Because of the controversial subject regarding the book he wrote in real life, Salman Rushdie is portrayed in evil incarnate in the movie.
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** Because of the controversial subject regarding the book he wrote in real life, Salman Rushdie is portrayed in this book as evil incarnate in the movie.
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** Because of the controversial subject regarding the book he wrote in real life, Salman Rushdie is portrayed in this book as evil incarnate in the movie.
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* {{Narm}}: All over the place since it's hard to tell which moments are meant to be serious or comedic. The biggest one has to be when the protagonists disguise themselves as ''Batman'' to evade Rushdie's minions.
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** On a smaller and somewhat surprising note, Arabs are allied with him as well. This has something to do with rich Arabs being viewed as "Western puppets" by many Muslims.
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** On a smaller and somewhat surprising note, Arabs are allied with him as well. This has something to do with rich Arabs being viewed as "Western puppets" by many Muslims. For what is worth, they don't really do much unlike the Jews since they only show up to establish being friendly with the BigBad.
* DesignatedHero: The titular "guerillas". Oh, Salman Rushdie is evil no doubt, but what really makes the protagonists' jihad personal is their sister's death, which Rushdie was merely indirectly related. But since she participated in a protest against his book, her brothers place the blame squarely on Rushdie's soldiers and will literally not stop until they make him pay. They so much say that if everyone in the world looked like him, they'd ''have to kill them all''.
* {{Padding}}: This is a two and a half hours movie and you feel it, due to the prolonged action and driving scenes and arguably the musical/dancing numbers.
* SignatureScene: The ending where [[spoiler:Salman is burned alive by the Koran]] is probably the most memorable part of the movie and easy to find on Youtube.
* DesignatedHero: The titular "guerillas". Oh, Salman Rushdie is evil no doubt, but what really makes the protagonists' jihad personal is their sister's death, which Rushdie was merely indirectly related. But since she participated in a protest against his book, her brothers place the blame squarely on Rushdie's soldiers and will literally not stop until they make him pay. They so much say that if everyone in the world looked like him, they'd ''have to kill them all''.
* {{Padding}}: This is a two and a half hours movie and you feel it, due to the prolonged action and driving scenes and arguably the musical/dancing numbers.
* SignatureScene: The ending where [[spoiler:Salman is burned alive by the Koran]] is probably the most memorable part of the movie and easy to find on Youtube.
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* AcceptableTargets: From a non-Western perspective at least:
** Because of the controversial subject regarding the book he wrote in real life, Salman Rushdie is portrayed in this book as evil incarnate in the movie.
** Israeli Jews are also shown in negative light, since they are depicted as Rushdie's private soldiers and enforcers.
** On a smaller and somewhat surprising note, Arabs are allied with him as well. This has something to do with rich Arabs being viewed as "Western puppets" by many Muslims.
* ValuesDissonance: This movie was extremely popular in its home country. It's hard to imagine this movie being made in the West, except [[PoesLaw if it was satire]] (though to be fair, producers stated that MoneyDearBoy was the main motivation).
** Because of the controversial subject regarding the book he wrote in real life, Salman Rushdie is portrayed in this book as evil incarnate in the movie.
** Israeli Jews are also shown in negative light, since they are depicted as Rushdie's private soldiers and enforcers.
** On a smaller and somewhat surprising note, Arabs are allied with him as well. This has something to do with rich Arabs being viewed as "Western puppets" by many Muslims.
* ValuesDissonance: This movie was extremely popular in its home country. It's hard to imagine this movie being made in the West, except [[PoesLaw if it was satire]] (though to be fair, producers stated that MoneyDearBoy was the main motivation).
