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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ana Schnabl

Hollywood’s villains were once Russian or Chinese. Now they’re us – people from the Balkans

Brad Pitt and George Clooney in Wolfs
Brad Pitt and George Clooney at a Croatian wedding party in Wolfs. Photograph: Scott Garfield/AP

I recently watched the new bro-flick Wolfs. In my defence: I was sick and therefore lacking in imagination. I didn’t fall for the Brad Pitt-George Clooney combo, though, doing proper bro stuff – walking around in leather jackets, driving cars (fast), cracking egomaniac quasi-ironic jokes. If it wasn’t for the portrayals of “Albanians” and “Croatians” and their rival mafias, I might have fallen asleep.

The Albanians enter the film as a bunch of hefty guys with guns; they’re done away with swiftly, in less than a minute. The Croatians, on the other hand, are presented more elaborately, in a longer scene of a Croatian wedding party.

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