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1980s Baghdad. More specifically, a lavish nightclub in '80s Baghdad; the clothes, the music, the gold Rolex-wearing sheiks. On the level below, a dozen heavily made-up and permed Iraqi women in tiny mini-skirts are dancing to some electro dance beat. Upstairs, in the VIP area, all attention is focused on one man - Saddam Hussein's son Uday - as he drinks and dances with a bevy of impossibly attractive girls. His bodyguards, armed to the teeth, keep a close watch. This is his world, and everyone else in the building is here to please him.
IGN has come to this opulent scene 30 years after the fact, eerily recreated on the set of a new film, The Devil's Double, not in Iraq but on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta. This is an Iraq we've never seen before; one of astounding excess and expense and a far cry from the sandblasted, shredded buildings, large tanks and loud explosions we've come to expect from films set in this area of the globe. This is less The Hurt Locker, more Scarface.
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