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Garance previews the upcoming Wikileaks movie, The Fifth Estate:
Based on Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website and David Leigh and Luke Harding’s WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, the film covers the heady early days of the site and appears from the trailer, which was just released, to cast Assange as a heroic visionary who takes things too far. “You can’t change change the world without crashing the system,” the movie trailer says. It would seem an apt tagline for Snowden’s activities, too — and a reminder that it’s only a matter of time before he also becomes the ripped from the headlines personality at the center of a major film.
David Haglund considers Julian Assange’s own response to the film’s script:
Julian Assange has called The Fifth Estate, the upcoming movie in which he is played by Benedict Cumberbatch, “a serious propaganda attack on WikiLeaks.” (This was after reading an early version of the script.)
You certainly don’t get that impression from the first trailer, which—though it notes that some people deem Assange a “traitor”—has a decidedly pro-WikiLeaks vibe, presenting its story as one of the people against the powerful. (The title references citizen journalism, the “fourth estate” being a nickname for the professional press.) Then again, Assange is a guy who decided his own (ghostwritten) autobiography was not flattering enough, so perhaps no film would have been hagiographic enough for his taste.
More Dish on leaking on the big screen here.
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