Johnny Mad Dog Page #4

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
335 Views


You can't talk?

You'll lose everything

in the house here.

All!

And losers will die.

I'll give you one more chance.

Only one more.

How much is ten to the third power?

Ten to the third power is one thousand.

To the sixth power is one million.

As for the surface of a triangle,

it is equal to the base multiplied

by the height and divided by two.

Now, please,

just leave us alone.

We've given you everything.

What? What do you have?

With all your gold and diamonds!

What's your job?

You better shut up!

- I'm a high-school teacher.

- High-school teacher?

You f***ing Dogo woman.

You think you smarter than me?

I was in the second grade,

but I took third-grade lessons.

With all the books you know,

your country is finished.

My wife isn't Dogo,

she's from your tribe.

- Don't hurt her.

- Prove it!

I'm the one who's Dogo.

You speak my dialect?

I only speak English,

I wasn't born here.

My father was an ambassador.

Ambassador?

So you understand our dialect?

Of course.

Prove it!

I give you two minutes.

- Kill them!

- Let's split!

They're boring,

there's nothing to loot.

Let's go loot other houses!

Time is up.

Time finished.

Too bad you were born abroad.

Next time you be born here!

I don't give a damn,

I love my husband.

So you insult my general?

Watch it or I'll blow your head off!

You can kill me,

but don't touch my wife.

Shut up!

- Stand up!

- That's an order!

You supported the stupid president!

Collaborators!

Hey old man!

- Get undressed!

- Make it fast!

- Dogos are traitors!

- Fast!

You'll f*** your wife,

right now, in the living room!

- Take off your f***ing clothes!

- Do it!

Trousers off!

Put them down.

Now f*** for me now!

Quick! Quick!

Start f***ing!

Look at his big dick!

You wanna die, old man?

F*** her!

You take all our money

and kill our people!

- F***ing whore!

- What happen to you, Lovelita?

- He's my man!

- Who the f*** are you?

I enjoy myself.

F***ing Dogo!

- Move!

- Put the arm down.

- Move!

- Put it down.

Who you think I am?

You do whatever you want with me?

Let's go, Johnny!

I'm gonna kill you.

Who the f*** is she?

Take the weapon.

- Good morning, general.

- Where are your men?

I don't know, general.

Don't call me general.

I'm in the regular army.

I'm proud to be a corporal

and also the president's bodyguard.

No men, no war!

So no more war, what we do now?

Why ask me that?

Soon, you'll turn in your weapon.

We don't want boys with arms.

Find something else to do!

- General, our money?

- There's no money.

You fought the war

and looted a lot of things.

You served yourself!

I got no money for you.

The president owes us.

It's our right.

There are rights and duties.

- You, in the regular army?

- I'm no civilian.

Yes, you are.

I can send you in a refugee camp

to serve as security

and watch over the Dogos.

You gotta stop tribality.

Treat them like other tribes.

Do I make myself clear?

Go wash up, you're dirty!

I'm looking for my brother.

- Who is he?

- His name is Fofo.

Fofo? No.

- What's your name?

- Mayama.

- Where are her parents?

- Dead.

Hey you!

I know you! You're a killer!

Who are you?

Where you know me from?

Who ordered you to distribute

the rice?

You wanna die?

Where you know me from?

This is the soldiers' rice.

Put it back.

- No!

- In the truck!

In the truck!

No, I won't!

What you doing here?

Get your things and follow me.

- Get up!

- I'm not gonna leave her here!

- Get up!

- No!

You got it?

Put the girl over there.

- Not on my bed!

- Why did you bring me here?

Anything I feel, I'll do it.

Is that your daughter?

The girl is your daughter?

Where's your family?

What's your name?

You think I'll show you my name,

Mad Dog?

How do you know my name?

Mad Dog is finished.

Where's my little brother?

Who your little brother?

You killed him.

You think I can kill a child?

I saw you kill a little boy,

for oranges.

How do you know I killed a boy

for oranges?

It wasn't for oranges I killed him.

He fired at my pickup

and was trying to escape.

We captured him in the old town.

I asked him what was in his bucket.

He said bananas and I kicked

the bucket and it was oranges.

He tried to escape

and I killed the man.

If I had met him on the front

he would have killed me too.

Was he your brother?

So who says

when they don't need you,

they won't get rid of you?

You like it?

It's fine on you.

It's beautiful.

You like it?

It's fine around your neck.

I don't need your gift.

You go to school.

Take the book, it's for you!

Can't you read?

You go to Sunday church

to worship Jesus Christ?

You're a virgin!

And you?

I got all the women.

I only need to pick one.

Raping is not the same as loving.

You're not talking?

You started the talking, talk now.

Now you're scared.

I thought you were brave.

Talk again.

Talk now!

Go away!

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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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