Controversial Donald Trump movie 'The Apprentice' depicts him as rapist

[Celerity]

A dark new biopic starring Sebastian Stan as a young Trump is the talk of Cannes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/05/20/donald-trump-the-apprentice-cannes/

https://archive.ph/uc8K2

Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in a scene from “The Apprentice,” which premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival. (Mongrel Media/Cannes Film Festival)

CANNES, France — Had a movie called “The Apprentice” about a young Donald Trump’s rise to power premiered in America — during an election year in which said protagonist is the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president — one imagines there might have been protests and police in riot gear. Instead, this Monday evening at the Cannes Film Festival, the film received the usual reverential treatment: a gala audience in gowns and tuxedos and star Sebastian Stan posing for photos on the red carpet. (Jeremy Strong, who plays the ruthless lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, is on Broadway; during the eight-minute standing ovation, Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi held up a still photo of the actor in his dressing room with his fingers in a peace sign.)

The film follows Trump in his years as a New York real estate mogul, as he strikes up an almost filial relationship with Cohn (and then abandons him as Cohn contracts AIDS), and falls in and out of love with his first wife Ivana (Maria Bakalova of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”). Going into the premiere, the main questions swirling around the movie seemed to be about tone. Did the presence of Bakalova mean that this was going to be a biting satire? (The Cannes party invite, for instance, says, “If you’re indicted, you’re invited,” which is a line from Cohn’s Christmas party invitation in the film.)

Or would it be a dark look into Trump’s power grabs and predatory behavior? After all, the screenplay is from Vanity Fair journalist Gabriel Sherman, and Abbasi’s last Cannes film, 2022’s “Holy Spider,” is about a serial killer targeting sex workers in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. When the lights rose, the applause was instant and robust, with Cate Blanchett and Cynthia Erivo somehow leading the charge down in the orchestra seats near Abbasi and Stan. There had been spots of laughter, especially during moments of physical comedy, like when Trump slips on ice while courting Ivana and boastfully telling her he knows how to ski. But, by and large, it is a very dark and chilling origin story.

Stan’s Trump is not a clown but a vicious “killer,” as the character categorizes his ambition. In details that seem to be based on a 1990 divorce deposition from Ivana Trump, we see him go under the knife, in gory detail, to get liposuction and a scalp reduction surgery, as a solution to his growing love handles and bald spot. And we watch when, as Ivana also alleged in that deposition, Trump pushes her to the floor of their home during an argument and rapes her. (Ivana’s testimony had brought the concept of marital rape into mainstream American conversation at the time, but she recanted her statements about it in 2015.) He’s also depicted receiving oral sex from a topless blonde in Atlantic City while married.

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[captain queeg]

1. I'm sure tfg won't like it, so I approve at least somewhat.

[Johonny]

2. Given he is a rapist, seems accurate

[liberalla]

19. Yes. More like a documentary...

[republianmushroom]

3. Damn, donnie, the cats out of the bag, dude.

[wnylib]

4. Looks like Trump's next litigation, followed by a Congressional MAGA

attempt to have the film legally banned in the US.

[Eugene]

5. The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist

The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist (The Guardian)

The Trump campaign has come out swinging against The Apprentice after the film, which depicts the former president raping his first wife, shocked audiences at Cannes, with a spokesperson saying that they will be “filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers”.

Speaking to Variety on Monday after the world premiere of Ali Abbasi’s film, the Trump campaign’s chief spokesperson Steven Cheung confirmed they would take legal action.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/21/the-apprentice-biopic-donald-trump-campaign-threatens-legal-action

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It's all one huge conspiracy of Biden and the leftist Hollywood Elites! Wahhh!!

[OMGWTF]

9. Oh Spanky, that ship has sailed. You are a rapist, likely hundreds of times over.

[malaise]

6. Perfect timing

Expose the monster

[Aviation Pro]

7. Damn, Winter Soldier is doing a thankless task portraying Motherfucker

Go get 'em Bucky, you can do this all day.

[machoneman]

8. Wait! How did that topless blonde ever find his tiny mushroom-tipped dick to even give him head? Anyone?

[Skittles]

11. Stormy might know

[Skittles]

10. so it is a documentary?

fuck that rapist POS

[Marcuse]

12. "And the winner of Best Motion Picture of the Year is...."

[BaronChocula]

13. They couldn't find someone hideous to play trermp?

I mean, Sebastian Stan...

[Celerity]

15. It's easy to 'ugly up' good looking people, plus we need to see the actual acting, the channelled evil

[BaronChocula]

16. Well yes

Brings to mind Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos and so on. And there are numerous roles for "good looking" actors, but as someone "in the business" I can tell you there are puh-lenty of not so glamorous people with great chops who deserve a shot.

My initial remark was merely my Sebastian Stan crush talking.

[Joinfortmill]

14. Ugh, surprised they didnt include the Epstein parties.

[pfitz59]

18. I believe this was the pre-Epstein years

when he was kicking little old ladies of rent controlled apartments

[kskiska]

17. It was in Ivana's autobiography.

[BoRaGard]

20. But since she's a woman, repubes would not believe her

Hell, they refuse to accept anything at all about their beloved Smelvis.

On your knees to a casino hustler is no way to go through life.