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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Avenger" data-source="post: 5019506" data-attributes="member: 779">I felt it was interesting in that there were appearances of characters based off of certain public figures such as Queen Elizabeth II.  The governor of California was a former actor who spoke with an Austrian accent, even if they didn't say he was Arnold Schwarzenegger.  And I think the female German chancellor was certainly intended to be Angela Merkel, even if she wasn't named.  However the one character in the movie who wasn't anything like his Real World counterpart, was the Italian Prime Minister, who was certainly nothing like Silvio Berslusconi.  Which leads me to think that the creators of the movie certainly have something against Berlusconi.I guess the other amusing thing I found about this movie, was that even though it was about an American everyman trying to save his family, it was a movie where the People's Republic of China save Human civilization from destruction.  As if they're trying to justify all those really damaging and disruptive super-projects to build giant dams in China.</blockquote>