‘I suffered a hell of a lot more than you ever will: Biden tells Hunter in scene from My Son Hunter
Some of President Joe Biden‘s biggest gaffes, including his infamous story about a guy called ‘Corn Pop’, are reenacted in the upcoming film My Son Hunter.
One scene, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, puts on display Biden’s catch phrases, like his frequent use of ‘come on man,’ as well as some of his mistake-ridden statements, like confusing words for each other.
‘I drew dialogue from actual incidents or documents, transcripts or emails reported in the media as the base language of Hunter and Joe’s characters, many of them actual quoted lines,’ Brian Godawa, the screenwriter for My Son Hunter, told DailyMail.com.
He added: ‘And many of them were taken from Hunter’s actual emails from his laptop.’
The scene obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hunter and his father having a tender moment in the car discussing failure and struggle before the president is derailed into an off-topic story about someone he called ‘Corn Pop.’
‘Bidens don’t wallow in self pity,’ said the president, portrayed by Dynasty actor John James.
‘Look, I suffered a hell of a lot more than you ever will – I marched in the Civil Rights movement, I attended a black college, I was arrested with Nelson Mandela,’ he added before employing a blank stare.
‘I’ll never forget Corn Pop,’ the Biden character says. ‘He was a bad dude – no joke. Wouldn’t wear a bathing cap in the pool so I faced him down with a six-foot chain.’
‘Dad,’ interrupts Hunter, played by British actor Laurence Fox. ‘We were talking about suffering,’ he reminded his father.
‘Yea. Look, here’s the deal – Do you see me wallowing in self pity? Crying over spilt butter?’ he questions. ‘Ok, now come on. I need you to keep it together. At least until I get elected.’
Film My Son Hunter includes a scene where President Biden’s character is consoling his son before getting off track and sharing a series of stories reminiscent of the real president’s gaffes
The scene included Biden, played by John James, telling his infamous ‘Corn Pop’ story. At a private screening attended by DailyMail.com, filmmakers handed out bags of popcorn with a sticker reading ‘Corn Pop’, which was a hit with conservative attendees
In a 2017 speech that resurfaced in the 2020 presidential election, Biden talks about a ‘bad dude’ named ‘Corn Pop’ who he had to impose rules on heavily when he was a lifeguard at a pool
The film is available for pre-order and will premiere direct-to-consumer on Wednesday, September 7, but a room full of donors, conservative influencers and right-leaning Hollywood figures gathered in a Los Angeles screening room last week for the first official showing of My Son Hunter.
The private screening, which DailyMail.com had access to, showed a series of scenes with the next more shocking than the last.
In a foreshadowing of the film’s comedic elements focusing on Biden’s gaffes and wild storytelling, the filmmakers handed out bags of popcorn to viewers with a sticker on the bag with the label ‘corn pop’
Remarks from June 2017 circulated during the 2020 presidential campaign that Republicans used to prove that Biden is not mentally capable of being president.
The screenwriter told DailyMail.com: ‘Many of the errors or strange elements in the character Joe’s speaking were drawn from real strange statements or errors in print, such as the Corn Pop story, his claims of being arrested with Mandela and others’
A scene where Hunter and Joe are speaking in a car includes a series of the president’s infamous gaffes, which have led to criticism from Republicans claiming he’s unfit to serve
In remarks from an aquatics center where the president worked as a young man, he reflected on his time as a lifeguard by telling the story about a time when he had to reprimand a guy named ‘Corn Pop.’
‘I was one of the guards and there was a three-meter board. If you fell off sideways you landed in the darn cement over there. And Corn Pop was a bad dude – and he ran a bunch of bad boys.’
He said Corn Pop threatened him with a straight razor.
In remarks from Las Vegas on February 16, 2020, nine months before the presidential election, Biden said that when Nelson Mandela got out of prison, he thanked him for getting arrested for him.
Questions have emerged over this story, however.
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young speculated that Biden was mixing up stories about a congressional delegation going to Lesotho, a country entirely landlocked inside South Africa.
Young said there was one trip where ‘we were not jailed, but we were retained by South Africa police.’
Despite the uncharacteristically raunchy nature of the conservative film, the crowd received it warmly, with one viewer heard describing it as, ‘Not your mother’s conservative movie.’
Hunter’s laptop, which was turned over to the media and Trump team after it was left at a computer repair shop in Delaware, included a slew of compromising and X-rated content – including nude, pornographic and drug-related images and videos of the president’s adult son
A photo recovered from Hunter’s laptop shows him with a crack pipe in his mouth as he sleeps. The film portrays a series of party scenes where Hunter takes drugs
‘It felt like something that would be on an HBO Max show,’ an audience member attending the screening said during a Q&A with director Robert Davi.
‘It’s not a focus on the family film, clearly,’ she added.
‘Well, it is a focus on the family,’ Davi, most known for his roles in The Goonies and License to Kill, said to laughter.
The film starts with the line: ‘This is not a true story, except for all the fact.’
The filmmakers say that while the film is rooted in factual events, it is portrayed through a fictional story.
The producers, Irish filmmakers and married couple Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, have described the movie as a ‘biopic,’ which is a type of film that dramatizes the life of a public or historical figure.
‘Many of the errors or strange elements in the character Joe’s speaking were drawn from real strange statements or errors in print, such as the Corn Pop story, his claims of being arrested with Mandela and others,’ Godawa told DailyMail.com. ‘They were said by him in different contexts, but I used creative license to combine them together in order to express his true character through his true sayings in a new fictional context.’
‘The overall creative technique is called telescoping, taking many things that really happened over a long period of time and placing them together in a short period for the sake of the brevity of the movie.’
