Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, was a vile and deranged man, whose depravities were given full rein with unlimited power and money. It was a demanding job to be the double of a man so many sincerely wanted to see dead; even Saddam reportedly told Uday, "I should have killed you the day you were born."
Lee Tamahori's "The Devil's Double" is based on the experiences of Latif Yahia, who was groomed as Uday's double. In this role, he survived no less than a dozen assassination attempts. The movie portrays him as an Iraqi soldier forced to take the job after beatings and threats to his family; he is seen throughout as a respectable figure with contempt for Uday and a good deal of courage in standing up to him.
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This movie is not quite based on fact. Tamahori and writer Michael Thomas make it clear they've fictionalized a great deal, and although they cite Latif Yahia's own book as their source, that itself is a novel. In life, I learn, Latif was groomed as Uday's double as early as his school days. Nor did he plot Uday's death. His story raises the question of whether his real life role was quite as upstanding as it seems here; he would have much reason to portray himself in a favorable light.
The movie is above all entertaining, if you enjoy human grotesquerie and flamboyant acting. Let's face it: Many of us do. There's a reason Hannibal Lecter remains the most popular villain in the movies. Dominic Cooper is inevitably more effective as Uday than as Latif, his disapproving double. After we get a few tastes of Uday, we can almost feel the energy level sagging during Latif's scenes. Nor does the role of Sarrab (Ludivine Sagnier) hold up very well. What's her real story? Why would she, knowing what she knows, take the reckless risk of becoming Latif's lover? The movie never persuades us that it understands her.
Based on a gripping, unbelievable true story of money, power and opulent decadence, Lionsgate's ''The Devil's Double'' takes a white-knuckle ride deep into the lawless playground of excess and violence known as Bagdad, 1987. Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) is thrust into the highest echelons of the "royal family" when he's ordered to become the 'fiday' -- or body double -- to Saddam's son, the notorious "Black Prince" Uday Hussein (also Dominic Cooper), a reckless, sadistic party-boy with a rabid hunger for sex and brutality. With his and his family's lives at stake, Latif must surrender his former self forever as he learns to walk, talk and act like Uday.The Devils Double (2011) - Official Trailer: =2-MsGEWFiYg&list=LLtV-DVHOtODMAuDzjiwWgGQ&index=120
On paper there is a lot going for this film as the (allegedly) true story of Saddam Hussein's son's body double has a lot of potential, but it's not realised here. However, Dominic Cooper gives a good dual performance. 6/10.
Not only Saddam Hussein had a double (or several?), but also his son Uday. The film is based on the novel I WAS SADDAM'S SON by Latif Yahia, who unwittingly doubled as Hussein Jr. became. Dominic Cooper shines in a dual role in this stylishly directed film adaptation, which has some nasty excesses of violence to offer. However, The Devil's Double has some weaknesses.
Dominic Cooper is the glue that holds this film together, with a very good dual performance as Saddam Hussein's oldest son and his double. His portrayal of Uday Hussein in particular is great, nicely psychotic and he's got a lot of energy, doing enough to separate the two characters despite the identical appearance.
True story about how a former classmate was forced to become Saddam Hussein sons double & witnessed first hand a true psychopath , As he brought terror to the innocent of Baghdad , Horroring stuff with a great double performance from Dominic Cooper,
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Dominic Cooper ("Mamma Mia") takes on the dual roles of Hussein's sadistic son Uday as well as that of a man named Latif Yahia, who accepts the Faustian bargain of being Uday's official body double. The movie is directed by Lee Tamahori ("Die Another Day") and is based on Yahia's novel.
EXPECTATIONS: The story of Uday Hussein's body double Latif Yahia, his relationship with the man himself and his difficult political position would seem to make for interesting stuff as far as film fodder goes. If you can ignore the fact that all the characters speak English and the lead actor is white, then there's no reason to dislike this movie, surely?
Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) is an Iraqi soldier, brought before Uday Hussein (also Cooper) with a proposition: Become his professional body double and leave his old life behind or... well, he's got no choice, really. In his new life, Latif is forced to witness some despicable things perpetrated by his doppelganger. He develops a relationship with Sarrab (Ludivine Sagnier), one of Uday's regular girls, and eventually reaches the point where he has to take drastic action because he just can't take it anymore.
In this messed up world, when you're a leader or a son of a leader, you always need a double. It's always something when you want to make an appearance. Perhaps it's best you do send in your double in case someone takes a shot at you, or at least your legacy.
It sucks to be in a country that's a dictatorship, and also to look like the son of the leader of Baghdad. Not only that it's one of the most psychotic sons...Uday Hussein (Dominc Cooper). The main character Latif Yahia (also played by Cooper) is a Lieutenant in the Iraqi army, and is brought in by Uday to have Latif become his double. That way if he makes an appearance out in public and someone tries to gun for him, it will be his double and not Uday. Latif gets to see more than he ever could, finding out what happens behind the golden AKs of Saddam Hussein.
They did an amazing job on the acting in The Devil's Double. In fact they did such a great job with the double effect I thought there were two different actors between Uday and Latif. Lo and behold, it's actually the same actor which is amazing. This movie is so in depth with the actual correspondence between the two characters, even though it's hard to act with one's self in a scene. This movie I was not able to see the whole separation between the two when they were in a room. Beforehand it used be some kind of line in the room, but now they've used modern technology to make it look like there are two Dominic Coopers in same room.
Drama. Latif Yahia, army lieutenant and former school companion of Saddam Hussein's sadistic son Uday Hussein, is violently coerced into becoming Uday's body double and is reluctantly drawn into a terrifying world of excess and brutality.
Based on a gripping, unbelievable true story of money, power and opulent decadence, Lionsgates The Devil's Double takes a white-knuckle ride deep into the lawless playground of excess and violence known as Baghdad, 1987. Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) is thrust into the highest echelons of the royal family when he's ordered to become the \"fiday\" - or body double - to Saddam's son, the notorious Black Prince, Uday Hussein (also Dominic Cooper), a reckless, sadistic party-boy with a rabid hunger for sex and brutality. With his and his familys lives at stake, Latif must surrender his former self forever as he learns to walk, talk and act like Uday. But nothing could have prepared him for the horror of the Black Prince's psychotic, drug-addled life of fast cars, easy women and impulsive violence. With one wrong move costing him his life, Latif forges an intimate bond with Sarrab (Ludivine Sagnier), Uday's seductive mistress who's haunted by her own secrets. As war looms with Kuwait and Uday's depraved gangster regime threatens to destroy them all, Latif realizes that escape from the devil's den will only come at the highest possible cost.
Uday had decided to make him a body double. When Mr Yahia politely refused he was put in prison for a week and tortured. Upon his release he was told that unless he agreed to become Uday's doppelgnger his family would be killed and his sisters raped.
Yet some of those who were in Uday's inner circle at the time have poured scorn on Mr Yahia's claims. Haytham Ajmaya, a 48-year-old Iraqi expat living in London, is one of them. He defected from Iraq in 1998 with the help of the British Government in exchange for information on Uday's inner circle, within which he had served for more than a decade. "Latif may have looked like Uday and talked like him but he was never Uday's body double," he told The Independent yesterday. "It's a real shame that Hollywood has decided to make a film based on rubbish rather than a film that is true to Iraq's history."
Mr Ajmaya claims that at most Mr Yahia was someone who used his close resemblance to Uday to secure money and girls in Iraq and was in fact arrested by police for doing just that. In January, Ed Caesar from the Sunday Times tracked down a further three members of Uday's inner circle who cast doubt on Mr Yahia's claim, as well as Saddam's plastic surgeon, who said no operation had been carried out on a body double.
My Yahia did not respond to The Independent's requests for comment yesterday but when confronted earlier this year about the remarks by Uday's former friends, he said: "I was Uday's double. Uday didn't have friends; he had pimps, drug dealers, hangers on, etc. Either I am psychic to know about inside palaces, bunkers and all the rest of the places... or I was actually there. I know the truth."
Kawalerowicz is keen to keep us on our toes. His roving camera is particularly unnerving. It will occasionally switch to a first person perspective, only to break off the approach moments later. Such a technique simultaneously draws us in closer to the increasingly claustrophobic goings-on while also being suggestive of another presence. During these instances we are brought, quite literally, face-to-face with Mother Joan and Winnicka's startling performance of a woman zigzagging through her inner torments and the eight devils which supposedly have a hold on her. Much the same is also true of Father Suryn, himself subject to his own internal turmoil. Gaunt and sickly seeming (a cough plagues him throughout), he self-flagellates, denies himself experience of the outside world and is continually drawn into a debate of self-doubt. At one point the actor portraying Suryn, Mieczyslaw Voit, is also called upon to play a rabbi. The two characters share a scene, and a conversation, in which the nature of good and evil is discussed. The doubling is unavoidable, furthering this idea of a man in constant conflict. 006ab0faaa
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