The 44-page document, A Solicitation for Nonstandard Ammunition, effectively invited the winning bidder to launder government money, buying weapons of shady provenance that the US military couldn't buy itself. The Afghan arms contract was offered for tender at the US government's procurement website. "We acknowledge the war, absolutely, but I don't think we glorify it." The only blood spilled is down the front of Pakouz's shirt, the result of a busted nose. "I don't think this film takes a political stance," Teller says. A lot of people don't realise the amount of money that is at stake, and that sometimes wars are waged because of that." "That beginning, we're just setting up the idea of war as an economy. "It kind of treads there, I suppose," Phillips says. Jonah Hill as Efraim (left) and Miles Tiller as David in comedic drama War Dogs. Soldiers patrolling in Iraq are festooned with price tags for the gun, the helmet, the kevlar vest, the uniform: everything but the human being inside.
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In the opening minutes of War Dogs, it briefly appears that the movie will do more than "some piece" of the article's work exposing the farcical, mind-blowingly expensive and inefficient way that the US military buys its weapons. "I basically said 'f- you' to everybody that I could find, and then you hope that it has an impact, and in this age it very often doesn't, so it's gratifying to have a movie that does even some piece of that." "This book takes on the Pentagon, the Department of Justice, the State Department, The New York Times," says Lawson, an investigative reporter who learned his craft from legendary Australian newsman Murray Sayle. Two kids so far out of their depth that they can't see bottom is a great comic set-up, but it's also, this being a true story, incredibly alarming. When they're not scouring the US government's procurement database for contracts to bid on, or calling arms suppliers in eastern Europe in search of ancient caches of Soviet bullets, Packouz and Diveroli are getting high, clubbing, and cruising the streets of Miami in their matching Porsches. He settled for playing Diveroli, a manipulative charmer with boundless ambition and a helium balloon laugh. Actor Jonah Hill also read the article and tried to buy it, intending to direct. Phillips bought the rights to Guy Lawson's Rolling Stone story about the two would-be lords of war soon after it was published in 2011 (a book followed four years later). Miles Teller in War Dogs, a true story so much stranger than fiction.
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