This musical number cut from the vice of Adam McKay is definitely something

Adam McKay's Vice was already a strange film, placing the rise to power of the evil villain Dick Cheney as a comedy or not and staging the saga with a group of fun actors playing unusual political assholes. One thing that would have made the film even stranger than it was, is a musical number that was cut at the last minute, lamented the editor Hank Corwin. He said The Hollywood journalist A few months ago, it was a "really entertaining" sequence that McKay "directed the devil", but it had to be cut, because it "weighed down the film at the wrong time."

Now the music number is out on YouTube, and … it's a bit much to take. Christian Bale's Cheney does not sing, but Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes accompanies Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld of Steve Carell in he explains to young Cheney the operation of Washington DC. His extremely stupid out of context, playing as an overconfident version of the guy who sings the political parody songs in "Mr. Lisa Goes To Washington. "Whereas the guy who edited the movie says it did not even work in context, it seems that cutting was the right choice.

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