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You cannot go around saying to people that there’s 100% chance that they’re gonna die.
~ President Orlean to Kate.
Look at that beautiful animal. I wonder, are those feathers or are they scale...
~ President Orlean's last words before getting eaten by a Bronteroc.

Janie Orlean is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Peter Isherwell) in 2021 Netflix satirical black comedy film Don't Look Up.

She was portrayed by Meryl Streep, who also portrayed The Witch in the 2014 version of Into the Woods, The Chief Elder in The Giver, Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, Susan Orlean in Adaptation, Eleanor Shaw in the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate and Jessica Lovejoy from The Simpsons.

Personality[]

As the President of USA, she is a selfish, corrupted, and cunning person who distrusts experts about the comet approaches Earth and later seeks that increase her popularity and launches their own campaign "Don't Look Up" with the BASH.

Biography[]

Oglethorpe, Dibiasky and Mindy anxiously meet Janie and her son, Jason Orlean, discusses about the near-extinction level comet that it will impact Earth in about six and half months, but she refused to believe them and they leaves.

When Orlean was involved in her scandal, she gave Oglethorpe, Dibiasky and Mindy a presidental apology and improves her approval ratings by preparing her mission is to confirming the comet's threat and launch a spacecraft that can strike the comet using nuclear weapons. The mission success, but it was setting them up when Peter Isherwell, discovers that the comet is composed of more than trillions of dollars' worth of rare-earth materials. Dibiasky does not believe about the comet's material and tells everyone that Orlean was a set up and let the comet extincts the Earth.

Orlean launches their own opposing campaign "Don't Look Up" with the BASH against her rivalry protestors "Just Look Up" including Dibiasky and Mindy, and cuts out Russia, India and China out of the rights for the minerals. While the three countries conduct their own joint deflection mission in attempt to deflect the comet. 40 minutes later, Orlean allegedly launches the missile and destroys their spacecraft during preparation, causing everyone distraught. Orlean and BASH's attempt to strike the comet apart using their own spacecraft, but fails and the comet's still whole, leading Orlean, as a coward, and the rest fleeing Earth on a spaceship designed to keep passengers alive, leaving her son behind. Orlean offers Mindy two places on the ship, but he declines and spends his last moment with his family, Dibiasky, Oglethorpe and Yule. During the flight from Earth, a comet hits, and all the humanitarians, or at least most of them, die, except for her son, who was lucky and survived the destruction.

After more than a twenty-thousand years, a few people including Orlean who flees Earth before the extinction, lands on a new formed Earth. Leaving their ship nude and reform their new life, but Orlean was eaten by an alien creature known as Bronteroc. More of them prepares to eat them including Isherwell off-screen.

Trivia[]

  • She was based off Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
    • Since the entire film is a metaphor and a satire of the response to climate change, it makes sense that Orlean would be based on Trump, since during his presidency he denied climate change even existed. However, Clinton seems to be a jab at the Democratic establishments response to climate change, doing very little to stop the threat to please their donors.
  • Meryl Streep previously portrayed another villain also called Orlean, Susan Orlean from the 2002 film Adaptation.
  • She and the other rich elitists leaving Earth could be a jab at billionaires buying up land in New Zealand to avoid the effects of climate change or even Texas Senator Ted Cruz going to Cancun to avoid the 2021 Texas Power Crisis, which was the result of dangerous weather.
  • Due to being the one responsible for letting the comet destroy humanity on Earth, it was a mistake to accept Peter's idea to abort the original deflection mission and mine the comet for the minerals.
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