Idi Amin - wackadoo.

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I just saw the movie "King of Scotland" a few days ago. I was too young to pay much attention to Amin when he was ruling Uganda, but just wondered if anyone else saw this movie?

I'm thinking of buying a book to learn more about Uganda and how Amin came to power.

Post your Idi Amin impressions here.

YouTube has a clip of Richard Pryor doing an impression of Idi Amin Dada.

Guess I could go to Wikipedia, but it's more fun talking to people who know stuff!!

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. good movie but definitely fiction /nt

[skooooo]

2. Explain...what did you find was fictionalized?

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. The main character, Amin's wife, timeline, etc

There is some use of historical events, but it's a movie and shouldn't be considered an accurate view of real events.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_King_of_Scotland_(film) is a good place to start research.

[question everything]

4. An excellent 1974 movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071544/

General Idi Amin Dada

Did not see the King of Scotland but I remember his reign of terror, his brutality, feeding his enemies to crocodiles.

As a matter of fact, I was thinking about him recently, remembering that at some point he was exiled and wondered whether something like that can be done with Zimbabwe's Mugabe.

[Clovis Sangrail]

5. it's really a pretty good movie; well worth watching /nt