{"id":604,"date":"2006-12-09T00:23:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T00:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2006\/12\/09\/don-cool-guy\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:25:05","slug":"don-cool-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2006\/12\/09\/don-cool-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don: cool guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so i caught the 1978 film &quot;Don&quot; which made amitabh bachchan the star he is today. it&#8217;s difficult to describe the 70s sheik which comes to play in this movie. giant bowties. heists involving fake beards. and a cameo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hEOcAg-Fnpk&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search=\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">barbara streisand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>it has the aesthetic of a 70s blacksploitation movie, but with new and exciting ethnic-oppression issues! bachchan plays dual roles, a cool, smooth talking gangster, and a betel-leaf chewing yokel with a lilting dialect. betel-leaves are a mild stimulant common to india, and the habit is actually more disgusting than chewing tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>incidentally the remake to &quot;Don&quot; 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