CITIZENFOUR, the Edward Snowden documentary by Laura Poitras

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if you're in a Stone movie, best to follow Tommy Lee Jones in NBK and pretend you're Daffy Duck

who is the audience for this movie?

(answer is probably nobody: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fifthestate.htm)

so in this movie snowden has a manic pixie dream girl who turns him from a dumb ass stick in the mud conservative into a fun-loving NSA whistleblower?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/edward-snowdens-long-strange-journey-to-hollywood.html

this article starts out normally enough and then takes a really...bizarre turn towards the end

In the spring of 2014, Stone flew to Berlin and met with Poitras. The meeting did not go well. According to Poitras, Stone proposed that she delay the release of “Citizenfour,” which she was then in the middle of editing, to time up with his film. “Because his film would be the real movie — because it’s a Hollywood movie,” Poitras told me. “Obviously I wasn’t interested in doing that. To have another filmmaker ask me to delay the release of my film was — well, it was somewhat insulting.”

Stone was annoyed, but he stuck around for a few drinks. They discussed new movies, including “12 Years a Slave.” As Poitras recalls, Stone found the film too violent, while Poitras thought the brutality was appropriate given the subject matter. Stone was growing increasingly frustrated. “At some point, he reached over and had his hands around my neck,” Poitras said. “It was sort of in a joking way. I think he was a little bit drunk. But it was not a particularly pleasant evening.”

haha holy fuck what an asshole

"mine is the real movie!"

Poitras was being very charitable there.

yes

Ollie v much the opposite of classy

Snowden was really useless, it's just Citizenfour with prettier people. Far less compelling and not nearly as scary. No wonder Stone was pissed at Poitras.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/09/what_snowden_gets_wrong_about_its_hero.html

Lol @ zachary quinto's greenwald.

can't believe James Clapper's performance in this was forgotten yesterday

perhaps "not wittingly"

Just seen 5 minutes of the Stone movie, hadn't realised it was a spoof.