《TheSpoilsofBabylon》Episodes

The play is based on a "fictional novel," written by Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell). He has written 57 best-selling novels throughout his life and has been translated into 85 languages ​​for distribution worldwide. In this "special novel," he devoted a century-long epic story to the heart of a family that relies on oil to get rich. The protagonists include: oil tycoon Jonas Morehouse (Tim Robbins); Jonas's daughter Cynthia (Kristen Wiig); Jonas's adopted son Devon (Tobey Maguire); Cynthia's son Winston (Haley Joel Osment); Cynthia's husband Chet Halner Devon's new love object Dixie Mellonworth (Jessica Alba). In addition to the dark insider oil business and the Middle East political issues, the story also involves a number of popular elements such as illegal arms trade and international espionage. Will Ferrell plays two people in the play - except for Eric Jonrosh, he will play Iran's King. Val Kilmer and Steve Tom will play two important U.S. generals. According to the story set, Devon Morehouse and Cynthia Morehouse although mutual enamored, but they can not love each other. Together, Devon and Cynthia helped Jonas run the family business - the seventh of the 500 largest companies in the world. Winston Cynthia's son is very bad, he always wanted to do nothing, at an age of ambition for power and family business. The show is called "Black Comedy," because it spoof many classic soap operas, such as "Dallas", "The Thorn Birds" and so on. The narrative pattern of the play is said to be: Eric Jonrosh "tells a story" at the beginning of each episode, then "concludes" at the end of each episode. In other words, he will use storytelling to bring audiences to the plot in his best-selling novel. If you read the classic movie "Princess Bride", this narrative pattern should not be unfamiliar.