It’s based on a 2011 Rolling Stone article (by Guy Lawson) called “Arms and the Dudes,” and it’s about hip hucksters who make a mountain of cash selling weapons to the U.S. “War Dogs” has a scruffier, more lightly disreputable vibe. “The Wolf of Wall Street” was rooted in the sleek white-collar façade of life on The Street, and “American Hustle” mined the tacky unreality of ’70s sleaze. Phillips borrows the bravura of Scorsese and Russell (who borrowed plenty of Scorsese’s to begin with), but he also makes it his own, merging it with his more casually mirthful, next-generation voice. ![]() (They also condemn it, but only after giving the audience a rough and rowdy good time.) Russell’s “American Hustle” - giddy, spinning life-as-a-con-job psychodramas that show you how fraud really works, and that celebrate it, too. It’s obvious that the director, Todd Phillips, has been hugely influenced by the money-fever rush and propulsive shot language of Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and by the orchestrated delirium of David O. ![]() The film just about tingles with the antic pleasure of seeing people get away with things they shouldn’t. ![]() ![]() “ War Dogs,” starring Miles Teller and Jonah Hill as bushy-tailed geek scoundrels who become Internet arms salesmen, is that rare thing: a based-in-reality movie that gives you a buzz.
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