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RSS FeedsLess sweetness, more savagery in film version of Rob Ford story
(The Star Travel)

 
 

24 march 2017 13:23:35

 
Less sweetness, more savagery in film version of Rob Ford story
(The Star Travel)
 


Actor Pat Thornton does what the Toronto police could never do. He nails Rob Ford, providing a chaotic and quite perfect impersonation of the late mayor of Toronto.Four years ago, sitting in the back of a darkened car watching the crack video on an iPhone with colleague Robyn Doolittle, I felt like we were in a cheap crime drama. Late-night phone calls. Coffee. Drive to a prescribed location. Wait. Small talk. Wait. Get into car with strange man. Get driven to a parking lot. Convince a drug and gun dealer to show video of Toronto’s top politician smoking a rock of crack.The Rob-Ford-on-crack we saw that night on video is the character Thornton has brought to the screen as Mayor Tom Hogg in the movie Filth City. Out of his mind on drugs for most of the film, wheezing, screaming, lecherous, crude and yet quite messianic in his desire to save taxpayers money. Our Ford had the slogan “Stop the gravy train.” This Hogg goes a bit further, vowing to take all of the social programs, the subsidized housing and the schools that are using up taxpayers’ money and “Suck them dry!”Missing from his depiction of the mayor is what I came to understand as the sweet side of Ford — his actions tormented his family, but he did love them. Among Ford Nation, he was pretty much a deity. That’s why Ford Nation was so angry that the cops and media were after him. This Hogg has no family, but he does have a sidekick he calls “Bro,” a more sympathetic, though less loyal, character than the real Doug Ford, brother of Rob.What is not missing from the movie is the crack, and lots of it. The cops do crack. Mayor Hogg does crack. Oh, and the guns. Agatha Christie once said that her approach to writing mystery stories was to drop in another body when things got dull. I stopped counting at 10 killed, mostly in wild shootouts.Every time I grew to like a character in the movie, he was killed. (Then he was usually dumped near the ...


 
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