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War Dogs: Directed by Todd Phillips. With Miles Teller, Steve Lantz, Gregg Weiner, David Packouz. Loosely based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a three hundred million dollar contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
- Todd Phillips
- 3 min
- How Old Were Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz When They Reunited?
- Is Miles Teller's Character's Girlfriend Iz Based on A Real person?
- Did Any Other Friends Work with David and Efraim Who Are Not Shown in The Movie?
- Was The Real War Dogs Experience as Action-Packed as The Movie?
- Were David and Efraim Really Stoners?
- Did They Really Walk Up to Women and Ask "How Much?"
- Is Bradley Cooper's Character, Henry Girard, Based on A Real person?
- Do The Letters in The Name Aey Stand For something?
- Did David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli Really Have A Falling out?
- Does David Packouz Have A Cameo in The Movie?
Efraim Diveroli was 19 in November 2005 when he enlisted the help of his old pal David Packouz, who was 23 at the time. The movie falsely states that they're the same age. At the time of filming, the actors were also older than their real-life counterparts were when the events unfolded. Jonah Hill was 31 and Miles Teller 28. The real War Dogs, Dive...
Yes. The War Dogs true story reveals that Miles Teller's character's girlfriend Iz (Ana De Armas) was inspired by David Packouz's real-life Spanish girlfriend at the time, a fellow massage therapist who Guy Lawson refers to in his book as "Sara." The pregnancy and daughter that David Packouz (Miles Teller) has with Iz in the film is based on his da...
Yes. In researching the War Dogs true story, we learned that a third friend, 24-year-old pot dealer Alex Podrizki, was left out of the film. Alex was sent to be the point man in Albania, not David Packouz. He is also the one who discovered that the ammo was Chinese and packed in Chinese crates. Guy Lawson's article-turned-book on which the movie is...
No. The film exaggerates the degree to which David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli were in dangerous situations abroad. Most of their risky dealings happened from behind a computer screen. They did travel abroad to check out foreign arms stockpiles and gun shows, but as far as coming under fire while transporting arms across enemy territory, it didn't ...
Yes. The real War Dogs would often smoke pot as they pursued and attempted to secure federal contracts from their one-bedroom Miami Beach apartment. "It was surreal. Here I was dealing with matters of international security, and I was half-baked," says David Packouz. -Daily Mail Online
Yes. In the War Dogs movie, Jonah Hill's Efraim is shown walking up to a woman at a club and bluntly asking her if she wants to make some money by fast-forwarding to their third date and pleasuring him in his car. That scene doesn't work out so well for Hill's character, but the real Efraim handled himself with a similar brashness, reportedly walki...
Yes. The movie's Henry Girard character was inspired by Heinrich "Henri" Thomet, a well-connected Swiss arms dealer and one of the founders of Brügger & Thomet AG, a Swiss defense supplier. He had got in trouble when Amnesty International accused him of smuggling arms out of Zimbabwe, which was a breach of U.S. sanctions. He was placed on a U.S. "w...
In the movie, Efraim (Jonah Hill) becomes angry at an employee who criticizes the letters in the name AEY for not standing for anything. In real life, the initials do mean something. The company had at first been a shell company started by Efraim's father. The letters in the name are the initials of his children, Aaron, Avigail, Avrohom, Efraim and...
Yes, but it wasn't because Diveroli tried to nudge Henri Thomet (played by Bradley Cooper as Henry Girard) out of the deal, which in the movie results in Packouz being roughed up by Girard's crew, making him furious at Diveroli. In reality, Packouz was upset because he had not been paid despite millions pouring into AEY. The real War Dogs did meet ...
Yes, David Packouz's War Dogs cameo happens early in the film when Miles Teller's character is trying to sell bed sheets wholesale to a retirement home in South Florida. The real Packouz can be seen playing Blue Oyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and is credited as "Singer at Hilldale." As for the real Efraim Diveroli, he doesn't have a cameo ...
Aug 19, 2016 · The best thing about "War Dogs" is the characterization of Efraim, as embodied by Hill. This actor portrays blobby, sarcastic, volatile men better than anyone since the late, great Chris Penn , and he's terrific here, using the character's squeaky laugh as an exclamation point at the end of a tense moment, and letting us see the calculations ...
Aug 29, 2016 · War Dogs: More Than Just Jonah Hill Humour & Dan Bilzerian Armour. Despite having been hospitalised for snorting too much fake cocaine while filming The Wolf Of Wall Street, dedicated thespian Jonah Hill is back to blowing the pseudo snow in War Dogs.
Dec 25, 2023 · War Dogs succeeds because the film does not lionize Packouz of Diveroli's behavior, and makes it clear that the consequences that they face are entirely of their own doing.
- Liam Gaughan
- Miles Teller
- Todd Phillips
War Dogs is a 2016 American black comedy crime film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Phillips, Jason Smilovic and Stephen Chin, based on the 2011 Rolling Stone article, "Arms and the Dudes", by Guy Lawson (which was later expanded upon in a novel, also titled Arms and the Dudes.)
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Aug 19, 2016 · No, if you ask them what war is really about, they’ve got a different answer: Money. “War is an economy,” David tells us in the opening moments of War Dogs , a film based on a true story about two enterprising Millennials who cunningly landed a $300 million arms contract to outfit Afghan rebels.
