Critique of Get Him to the Greek

If you're asking about the most evil movie ever made where Hollywood was simply

playing in our face, high on my list would be Get Him to the

Greek from 2010, which

took Russell Brand, Diddy, and Jeffrey Epstein

and turned them all into

punchlines. You probably don't remember this film,

but it's a Judd Apatow-produced

sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and it opens up with a music video from

Brand's musician character. The song from his band, Infant Sorrow, is

called African Child

. Now, it's a song with a lot of strange lyrics,

but it ends with Brand dancing

around and singing a very mocking version of Swahili.

It was translated here as, "All the children's hands have been

chopped off except

the fat kid's." This is all legitimate translation.

That next bit translates to, "God protects children.

I am a god who protects children. I am peace, I am love, and in

Africa, I am the king." It's a film that features Brand as basically an

out-of-control drug and sex addict, and it features Diddy as a, quote,

"volatile and aggressive record company owner." So neither of them were acting.

Diddy is playing Sergio Roma. Diddy in this movie is basically an

egomaniac who's emotionally and physically abusive.

He uses employees as drug mules, and while at a party, he tells a random

woman to have sex with Jonah Hill's character, who says he doesn't want

that to

happen. Which is then followed up by this moment.

I think I've just been raped.

What's that?

Raped?

Here you go, mate. That'll take the edge off.

Here you go.

What? What is this?

It's called a Jeffrey, Aaron. Bit of this, bit of that.

So in that scene, they're at a party with a sex trafficker

and rapist in Diddy,

with Russell Brand, who was also a rapist, giving Jonah Hill's character

a laced joint called a Jeffrey, right, to drug him

without him knowing. That scene then has Diddy

and Jonah touching this furry wall,

and it concludes with him chasing them through the hotel.

I think that nod to Jeffrey is worth acknowledging,

especially given the very

strange opening of the film and the fact that it

was a trip to Africa that really

put Epstein on the map of American media in a lot of ways in the

first place, in 2002. It was that trip with Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey,

Chris

Tucker, and others for humanitarian reasons,

right, all across Africa, that had

people wondering, "Who is this person?" He himself acknowledged

this was a mistake,

and very much kind of the first domino leading towards his initial arrest

when they

had him dead to rights and then let him go.

Because he was an intelligence asset, according to Alex Acosta, who

was prosecuting

him, and we ignore that fact 20 years later.

Then four to five years after his arrest, we have a little Jeffrey Easter egg in

this movie, right, with Russell Brand, with Diddy, and also with Jonah Hill,

who's

been accused of sexual assault as well, and also emotional abuse.

Him throwing a tantrum because his surfer girlfriend posted a picture in a

bikini. Also in this movie, you have one of the most obnoxious actors

in Hollywood,

T.J. Miller, who's also been accused of sexual assault.

Final thought, not putting her on the same level as these

people by any means, but

you have an open advocate for Scientology in Elisabeth Moss, who of course would go

on to become the face of The Handmaid's Tale in one of the most ironic castings of

all time. I have to say, they took the crimes

and abuse of these two men and turned

it all into a big punchline for this film, which makes it undoubtedly

one of the more evil movies ever made.