FDR: American Badass!
- warm
- kinetic
- surreal
- cold
- funny
Warm, breathless, measured comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Chronicles the adventures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as he rides a "wheelchair of death" to stop the world from being taking over by polio-carrying werewolves during WWII. A deadly menace that are led by Werewolf Hitler, Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito.
Our read · FDR: American Badass! (2012) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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