Mr. Rogen, who is also a director of the film, seemed eager to milk the unreleased movie’s early notoriety, feigning shock at the uproar in a tweet. “People don’t usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they’ve paid 12 bucks for it,†he said.
Rogen and Mr. Franco are actually carrying on a rich tradition of American black humor involving the despotic and over-the-top-cruel Kim regime, which has ruled since the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea’s founding after World War II.
Mr. Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, was portrayed as a waiter in the NBC TV show “Thirty Rock†– the man known simply as “Dear Leader†in North Korea claiming to be “the greatest waiter of all time†on the show. Before that, the movie “Team America World Police†featured a singing Kim Jong-il lamenting his lonely perch atop a dictatorship.
The young Kim, who is married to a North Korean pop singer, practically begged to be lampooned for his high-profile courting of former NBA player Denis Rodman, who has made several trips to North Korea and even recruited several of his old NBA chums to go to Pyongyang to play basketball for the Supreme Leader.
Indeed, it may be the implications of “The Interview†for a Kim initiative like the Rodman friendship that infuriated the North Korean leader most of all. If the CIA can convince a talk show team to undertake an assassination, Kim might have to think twice before reaching out to another American celebrity.
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