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Actor says Trump 'should be grateful' for controversial film
BBC ^ | Oct 15 | Steven McIntosh

Posted on 10/15/2024 1:38:24 PM PDT by RandFan

The star of a controversial new film about Donald Trump has said the former president "should be grateful" that it provides a "complex, three-dimensional take" on his life.

US actor Sebastian Stan portrays Trump in The Apprentice, which focuses on Trump's younger years as a real estate tycoon in New York.

The former president has threatened to take legal action against producers, describing the film as "fake and classless" and saying he hoped it would "bomb" at the box office.

The film struggled to find a distributor in the US and its director has described the process of making and releasing it as "the most challenging thing I've ever done".

The Apprentice is set in the 1970s and 80s, when Trump was beginning to make his name as a businessman in New York.

It focuses on his relationship with lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn (played by Succession's Jeremy Strong), who instilled certain values in Trump such as never admitting defeat.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: trump
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1 posted on 10/15/2024 1:38:24 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

President Trump should’ve grateful. Grateful that rabid lefties lost a lot of money producing a crap film that bombed that could have been donated to Marxist democrats directly.


2 posted on 10/15/2024 1:41:46 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: RandFan
This movie is a box office flop. I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning!

3 posted on 10/15/2024 1:47:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: RandFan

Looking at its lack of acceptance is good intel on what the public is thinking.


4 posted on 10/15/2024 1:48:10 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: RandFan

Hard to be controversial when no one has watched it


5 posted on 10/15/2024 1:49:53 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: RandFan

Check out who produced and distributed this film.

That’s the story.


6 posted on 10/15/2024 1:50:45 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

I noticed....


7 posted on 10/15/2024 1:53:33 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

‘a “complex, three-dimensional take” on his life…’

What he means here is he believes we should watch this because we are incapable of discerning the world and characters outside of Hollywood’s in depth take

Underlying most of it is people’s need to keep Dems in power in order to continue their lives of licentiousness to at least feel better about their disgusting lifestyles if not to sty out of jail or worse for crimes that will shock


8 posted on 10/15/2024 1:54:25 PM PDT by stanne
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To: RandFan

Profoundly stupid.
As usual.
Typical actor.


9 posted on 10/15/2024 1:56:31 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: stanne

A 3 dimensional take from a one dimensional ideology.


10 posted on 10/15/2024 1:57:46 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: RandFan

Is it a controversial movie if nobody saw it?


11 posted on 10/15/2024 2:02:34 PM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991 unburdened by what I was burdened by before.)
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To: RandFan

Isn’t this the stinker that bombed at the box-office?


12 posted on 10/15/2024 2:03:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: RandFan
Every Hollywood. Every media person. Every prominent elected Democrat are all baiting Trump to respond.

It will be a relentless barrage until Election Day.

Nutter Deniro might challenge him to a duel.

He must ignore it all and smile. Ignore their tantrums. They are toddlers no normal person takes seriously.

13 posted on 10/15/2024 2:04:31 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes. By contrast “Am I A Racist?” is a smash hit.


14 posted on 10/15/2024 2:07:44 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: RandFan

US actor Sebastian Stan, nobody gives a sh*t about you or your sh*tty movie.


15 posted on 10/15/2024 2:11:03 PM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: HamiltonJay

Indeed.


16 posted on 10/15/2024 2:13:41 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: BenLurkin

It is, you’re right.


17 posted on 10/15/2024 2:14:47 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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"The former president has threatened to take legal action against producers, describing the film as "fake and classless" and saying he hoped it would "bomb" at the box office."


18 posted on 10/15/2024 2:16:00 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

That’s because “Am I A Racist?” exposes the lefties for the lying con artists they are while “The Apprentice” is filled with untrue debunked lies about Donald Trump.


19 posted on 10/15/2024 2:16:13 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: RandFan
I always enjoyed the Apprentice and his old interviews and follow all the wonderful things he's done...expecially for NYC. Then there's the Old Post Office in DC. He saved it from the wrecking ball. Then there's the skating rink etc etc etc.

The man is self made...he has fought for everything he has accomplished. Quite a legacy.

No movie can ever get to the heart of the man. He's real. He's ours. And we love him.

20 posted on 10/15/2024 2:18:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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