Johnny Mad Dog Page #2

Synopsis: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Genre: Drama, War
Production: MNP Entreprise
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
Year:
2008
98 min
Website
328 Views


kill the f***ing Dogo president.

We'll get peace in our country.

Freedom in our country,

you like it?

Follow me. Let's go.

- You ready to fight the war with me?

- Yes, sir!

- Death dealers, you listening?

- Yes, sir!

You are the death dealers, rebels.

We are now about to start our mission.

Gentlemen, I want you to be calm.

This war is our war.

Free your heart.

Fight the war as a soldier.

Relax your mind.

Open your heart to the revolution.

Fight, no retreat.

Don't think about home.

After the revolution

you'll get your benefits.

Money will be given

and you'll go see your parents.

We need to go

and capture the whole f***ing city.

You need to go.

No retreat, no surrender...

No ma and pa...

Any soldier talking about ma and pa

will be executed.

Gentlemen, death dealer rebels,

be strong and vigilant.

Guys, you seen it for yourselves,

you're now bullet-proof!

Don't draw back from war,

if they fire at you, fire back.

- You don't wanna die...

- Don't be born!

- Mad Dog!

- Yes, general!

Your next mission is to move

to the embassy.

- Secure the area until I get there.

- Yes, sir, general!

- You don't wanna die...

- Don't be born!

Gentlemen, let's move.

Dad,

I'm scared.

- You, where you going!

- I beg you, chief.

F***ing ass!

Your rifle's mine!

Fofo.

Get up, we need to go, hurry up.

Your shoes, hurry up!

- Don't be foolish, they're near.

- Fofo, hurry up!

- Go with your sister.

- Go with us, dad, please.

I beg you, I'll take good care of you.

- Go with your sister.

- Bring the wheelbarrow!

- You can't forsake us like this.

- I'm not forsaking you. Now leave.

- Dad, please!

- Leave.

Leave!

Dad, open this door.

Dad, we can't leave like this.

You have to come with us.

Please, I beg you.

Open this door!

Dad!

Look at that pig!

Hey you, f***ing stop!

You, I said f***ing stop!

Where you going?

Where you taking that pig?

I'm carrying the pig across.

- What?

- The bridge.

- Who gave it to you?

- An old man.

- An old man?

- Yes.

You... The pig!

We're a troop of fighters.

You're just a looter!

- It's my pig!

- I beg you.

- What?

- I beg you.

You beg me?

Put the f***ing pig down!

Quick!

It's my pig, stupid old looter!

Sit down.

You liar. You f***ing looter.

You stole the pig and say

somebody gave it to you!

Take off your f***ing coat!

You're a f***ing looter!

I said, take it off!

The pig's for me.

Got tell the owner

that No Good Advice took it.

You hear?

Look me in the face

when I talk to you!

Get the f*** up and go!

Yes, general Never Die?

Where are you?

What is your position?

We control the whole area.

Go!

My men are on patrol.

The streets are empty,

there's nobody on the streets.

You got no self respect, old man!

Everybody's waiting for you! Hurry!

Chicken Hair!

Come here! Report!

We're gonna carry the old man's pig

to the truck.

Put it on my neck.

Go, take the coat.

- C.Y.A!

- Cover your ass!

- You all know what?

- No.

At any moment,

if I see a looter around here,

I'll damage his life!

I don't wanna see no looter here.

- You hear?

- Yes, sir!

Deploy.

All men deploy!

I found a weapon.

- Where?

- Over there.

- What weapon is it?

- An Uzi.

- Chinese?

- No, Israeli.

Chuck Norris used it

in Delta Force.

So be careful!

The Israelis or Chuck Norris

might be around.

- Butterfly.

- Yes, sir.

Try this arm.

Be careful with it.

Try it! Don't be scared. Try it!

- On the ground!

- Sit the f*** down!

Look at the chief!

The password?

Face the chief!

You don't wanna talk?

What's the password?

- What's in your bucket?

- Fruit... Bananas.

Oh, your bananas are orange?

You think I'm stupid?

F***ing liar!

You're a Dogo man.

Dirty ass!

I'll kill you today!

You a government trooper?

Take his clothes off

and tie him up.

- Your ma's name?

- Ataouza.

- Your pa's name?

- Abriye.

Look at the mark on this man.

He looks like a government fighter.

He's a government troop man.

Today is his last day.

Show me your finger.

That man's a f***ing fighter!

He's denying it!

- Who fired at my pickup?

- Not me.

Tell me the truth. Was it you?

I didn't fire.

Why did you have the Uzi then?

- I didn't.

- So why you hiding?

My oranges.

You were hiding for your oranges?

My ma sent me to look for food.

Tell the truth!

You lie and I'll kill you.

Who fired at my pickup?

Look at me!

Why you fight for the government?

You'll die poor.

Chief, I seen that man before.

He's a f***ing government troop man.

He was on reconnaissance.

When we catch these spies

they pretend to cry,

but they are not crying,

they can hit us in the back.

He's an enemy.

You'll die today, my boy.

- I'm not a fighter, I go to school.

- What school?

- What school?

- Methodist.

- Your teacher?

- Teacher Perry.

Stink mouth!

You f***ing Dogo man!

F***ing Dogo man!

You Dogo f***!

Everybody on board!

Johnny!

Johnny Mad Dog!

No Good Advice is waiting for you.

We're waiting for you!

What you doing?

Fofo, I'm going to hide you in here.

Don't come out,

I'll be back soon with dad.

Sit.

- Government troops!

- Pussies!

All men on board!

Dad!

Fofo!

Where are you?

- Where we going?

- Shut your f***ing mouth!

We'll kill the motherfuckers!

Where are the soldiers?

I don't know.

Enemy!

Move! Enemy around!

Move off the road!

Move off the road, enemy around!

Move off the road!

Move!

Motherf***er! Move! Move!

Sh*t, let's carry the man.

Chicken Hair,

watch out, bro.

It's dangerous here.

I saw some smoke up there.

Fast! Let's get him out of here.

Sniper in the building!

Reinforcements 1,2,3!

All clear, all clear!

It is my will that when I die

Don't bury me, don't bury me

You cut my dick in alcohol

And call my wife and give it to her

And when she cry, let her cry

When she roll let her rock

And what the f*** she thinks she is

She f***ing around with my GI dick

Another man will counsel her

Another man will comfort her

Take my rifle and my bonnet

Call my son and give it to him

Let him defend or let him fight

For his country, for his people

It is my will...

- Death dealer!

- No die, no rest.

Gentlemen, keep moving.

Shut the f*** up!

- F*** you rebels!

- They all deserve death.

Stand back!

Move!

- Back off!

- F***ing move away from the gate!

It's an emergency hospital.

We have to protect the hospital.

Move from the gate before I kill you!

Our general wants us to find

the government troops!

No arms allowed inside!

No one can enter armed.

- I can't leave my weapon.

- You have to.

My weapon is my mother

and my father!

No arm is allowed in here!

Nobody's stopping you from entering.

No arms allowed, it's a hospital.

Who are you to give me orders?

We'll enter today.

Any troops inside?

No, we only have civilians.

They're the only ones who count.

We're the ones fighting the war!

You're just standing around!

You speak English?

We have a wounded soldier,

so we wanna go inside!

You wanna lose your lives?

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Emmanuel Dongala

Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala (born 1941) is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He was Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock until 2014.In 1997, he was dean of Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville when war broke out in the Republic of Congo. Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has aided a number of refugee professors, offered him a job teaching chemistry at the American college. As a chemist, his specialty is stereochemistry and asymmetric synthesis, as well as environmental toxicology. He is the author of a number of award-winning novels including Johnny Mad Dog (French: Johnny Chien Méchant) and Little Boys Come from the Stars. His work is featured in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, and he has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. There is a film based on his book Johnny Mad Dog, a 2008 French-Liberian film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and starring Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed Sesay and Joseph Duo. He was winner of the 2004 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE for Johnny chien méchant. more…

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