Sorry Mr Fui Kwadzovia, I vote for Monty Brewster
So what made ‘Brewster’s Millions’ tick? A young man is tasked to spend, or perhaps misspend $30 million in 30 days, to inherit a $300 million fortune willed to him by his great-uncle he never met. To help him dispense the cash quickly, he forms a political party which campaigns against itself and everybody else, urging the electorate to elect ‘None of the Above’ as Mayor of New York. He fulfils the conditions at the very last second to earn the millions he never worked for. Turns out the electorate did actually vote for the ‘None of the Above’ party, forcing a re-election for a new mayor. This Walter Hill-directed comic masterpiece is good enough for a movie. And perhaps the producers needn’t worry about illegal replication of the movie, either in full or in part, because it is unlikely any electorate in even the funniest democracy on the globe will ever vote for the likes of Brewster for any serious political office. However, many a disillusioned electorate in many of our modern ...