The Devil's Double

The Devil's Double is a 2011 film about Uday Hussein, the psychopathic son of Saddam Hussein, and Latif Yahia, his reluctant Body Double. Based loosely on Latif's autobiography.


 * Acting for Two: Dominic Cooper, playing both Latif and Uday.
 * Anything That Moves: Uday, and he is quite proud of this fact. He even openly admits that he loves boning more than his country, his mother, his father, and even God!
 * Ax Crazy: Uday.
 * Berserk Button: Do not refer to Uday as a faggot. Good Lord. Just don't.
 * Body Double: Latif of course, and various clones of Saddam Hussein.
 * Country Matters: Uday's a fan of saying it a lot and obtaining it by any means necessary.
 * Cross Dresser who Uday has a crush on.
 * Depraved Bisexual: Uday.
 * Ephebophile: Uday picks up/abducts girls outside schools. Later his goons dump their dead bodies in the desert.
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Uday hates an aide of his father who provides him with concubines, saying he doesn't like seeing his mother an emotional wreck because of Saddam's escapades with them. He later guts this aide when he has a psychological breakdown of his own.
 * Fake Nationality: Most of the main actors are not Iraqi. (Dominic Cooper is British, Philip Quast is Australian, Ludevine Sagnier is French)
 * Faux Affably Evil: Uday seems almost cartoonishly friendly when he's in a good mood...or even when he's threatening to drop that facade.
 * Firing in The Air A Lot: Uday.
 * Foe Yay: Come on, you noticed it. Seems to be a deconstruction of Uday's insane narcissism; he's so in love with himself that he needs a spare. Plus all that "I will never let you go; I love you too much" stuff.
 * Hookers and Blow: Basically Uday's entire life.
 * Hope Spot: You know that Uday is going to survive Latif's assassination attempt in the film's ending, and the woman Uday invites into his car even tries to throw off Latif's aim.
 * I Have No Son: More or less--Saddam tells Uday he wishes he had never been born.
 * Or rather, that he should have been gelded at birth..
 * Interrupted Suicide. Latif slashes his wrists.
 * Screw the Rules, I Make Them: Uday.
 * Slasher Smile: Uday has, as Dominic Cooper put it, "extraordinarily strange teeth." Latif wears a false pair when pretending to be Uday.
 * Translation Convention: It's set (obviously) in Iraq, but everyone speaks English.