The Anticipation Builds: A Look at the Upcoming Film

Unique Points

• The Apprentice film received an 11-minute standing ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere during its world premiere at Cannes.
• Sebastian Stan portrays a young Donald J. Trump as a real estate baron in the movie.
• Ivana Trump, played by Bakalova, is involved in a rape scene with Donald Trump in the film.
• The film contains a scene depicting Trump raping his then-wife Ivana, which is based on claims she made following their divorce but later recanted.

Accuracy

• The scene in question shows Trump forcing Ivana to the ground and asking her if he found her G-spot after raping her.

Deception (0%)

• The film is interfering in elections by Hollywood elites on the same level as the criminal charges brought against Trump
• it does not deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store, It belongs in a dumpster fire.
• This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.

Fallacies (85%)

• “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.”
• “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.”
• “it belongs in a dumpster fire.”

Bias (80%)

• It isn’t just the ire of the former president that has been stoked by the movie, which does not yet have a distributor. Billionaire and noted Trump buddy Dan Snyder is reportedly hopping mad about the film’s depiction of his friend, which he assumed (for some reason) would be positive—a belief that led him to invest in the flick. “Sources familiar with the back and forth say Snyder took issue with multiple aspects of the film and weighed in on what should be changed.”
• The Ali Abbasi film, which reportedly opens with a disclaimer about the fictionalized nature of the events the movie depicts, shows a heavily made-over Stan as the rising mogul sexually assaulting Ivana Trump (Maria Bakalova) after forcing her to the ground. An insider familiar with the project told Variety that the scene is “violent” and “uncomfortable.” “Did I find your G-spot?” the film’s Trump asks afterward, according to The Guardian.
• The author refers to the film as a 'dumpster fire' and calls it 'pure malicious defamation'. These are strong negative words used to express bias towards the film.
• The campaign is now threatening to sue the makers of The Apprentice after it was reported that the biopic, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, features a scene in which Sebastian Stan’s Trump violently rapes his first wife. “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told The Daily Beast on Monday night. “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.”
• The campaign is threatening to sue 'pretend filmmakers' for a scene that is 'pure fiction' which they believe sensationalizes lies that have been 'long debunked'. The author uses loaded language to describe the film and its creators.

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Unique Points

• Sebastian Stan portrays Donald Trump in the film, with Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
• The central relationship is between Trump and Cohn, who was chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigations.
• Scenes showing Trump getting liposuction and his alleged rape of first wife Ivana drew audible gasps from the audience.
• Stan's performance as Trump is praised for capturing the essence of the man without becoming a caricature.

Accuracy

• The Apprentice docudrama on Donald Trump's early life premiered at the 77th Cannes film festival and received mixed reviews from critics.
• The central relationship is between Trump and Cohn, who was chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy’s Senate investigations.
• The film received an enthusiastic applause with the crowd staying on their feet for nearly eight minutes.
• Pete Hammond described The Apprentice as a ‘smart, sharp and surprising origin story’.
• Gabriel Sherman’s first screenplay is based on his profiling of Trump for various publications.
• The film details a series of heartless actions Trump makes, including turning on his alcoholic brother and allegedly sexually assaulting Ivana.
• Stan’s performance as Trump is praised for capturing the essence of the man without becoming a caricature.
• David Rooney praises Stan’s performance and calls it a ‘character study of a public figure both widely parodied and unwittingly self-parodying’.
• Kevin Maher writes that this is ‘the Donald Trump movie that you never knew you needed’ with nuanced portrayal of Trump by Stan.
• Peter Bradshaw praises Strong’s performance as Roy Cohn, describing his physical stillness and lizardly stare as ‘much more interesting and effectively threatening than Stan’s moderate hair-and-makeup performance as Trump.’
• Robbie Collin calls the film a ‘character study with very little character to study.’

Deception (30%)

• The Hollywood Reporter said scenes showing Trump getting liposuction and his alleged rape of first wife Ivana drew audible gasps from the audience and the film received an enthusiastic applause with the crowd staying on their feet for nearly eight minutes.
• mixed reviews from critics
• Owen Gleiberman feels that the drama is a spirited, entertaining and not overly cheeky docudrama about the years in which Donald Trump came to be Donald Trump.
• Pete Hammond from Deadline described The Apprentice as a smart, sharp and surprising origin story.

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Unique Points

• The Apprentice film received an 11-minute standing ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere during its world premiere at Cannes.
• Sebastian Stan portrays a young Donald J. Trump as a real estate baron in the movie.
• Jeremy Strong plays Roy Cohn, who inspired Trump’s dealings.
• >Ivana Trump, played by Bakalova, is involved in a rape scene with Donald Trump in the film.>
• >Abbasi hopes for a September release date for the movie timed to the second Presidential Debate.>

Accuracy

• Donald Trump’s campaign has threatened to sue the filmmakers over ‘blatantly false assertions.’
• Ivana Trump, played by Bakalova, is involved in a rape scene with Donald Trump in the film.

Deception (30%)

• “I would offer to go and meet him and have a chat afterward.”
• “Everybody talks about him Sueing a lot of people, they don’t talk about his success rate,”

Fallacies (80%)

• The movie contains a rape scene in which Trump forces himself on to his then wife, Ivana Trump played by Bakalova. The first former Mrs. Trump, who died in 2022, had spoken of the sexual assault in the years following the couple's divorce but later recanted the incident in the decades before her death.
• Quoted statement from Trump campaign: 'We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.'

Bias (95%)

• Quoted Jeremy Strong: 'we’re experiencing Roy Cohn’s long dark shadow.'
• ]The movie contains a rape scene in which Trump forces himself on to his then wife, Ivana Trump played by Bakalova. The first former Mrs. Trump, who died in 2022, had spoken of the sexual assault in the years following the couple's divorce but later recanted the incident in the decades before her death.[

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Unique Points

• 'The Apprentice premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, May 20, 2024.'
• “The Apprentice” is labeled as inspired by true events.
• “The Apprentice” is a potential awards contender and is playing in competition in Cannes, making it eligible for the festival's top award, the Palme d'Or.
• Sebastian Stan stars as Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
• “The central relationship is between Trump and Cohn, who was chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigations.

Accuracy

• The Apprentice premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, May 20, 2024.
• Sebastian Stan portrays Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
• Ivana Trump accused Donald Trump of rape in a 1989 divorce deposition.

Deception (50%)

• Strong, who’s currently performing on Broadway in An Enemy of the People, didn’t attend the Cannes premiere Monday.
• The film is for sale in Cannes, so it doesn’t yet have a release date.

Fallacies (80%)

• Cohn is depicted as a longtime mentor to Trump, coaching him in the ruthlessness of New York City politics and business.
• The Apprentice is a potentially explosive big-screen drama in the midst of the U.S. presidential election.

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Unique Points

• The Trump campaign intends to sue the filmmakers of ‘The Apprentice’ over a scene depicting Donald Trump raping his then-wife Ivana, which is based on claims she made following their divorce but later recanted.
• Ivana Trump had previously spoken about the sexual assault but later recanted the incident before her death.

Accuracy

• The Apprentice is being sold at Cannes by CAA, WME, and Rocket Science but lacks a distributor for now.
• Sebastian Stan portrays Donald Trump in the film, with Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
• The central relationship is between Trump and Cohn, who was chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigations.
• Ivana Trump accused Donald Trump of rape in a 1989 divorce deposition, which he denied at the time. She later walked back her claims.
• The film contains a scene depicting Trump raping his wife Ivana Trump.

Deception (0%)

• This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.
• It belongs in a dumpster fire.

Fallacies (80%)

• “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,”
• “As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites,”
• “This ‘film’ is pure malicious defamation,”

Bias (80%)

• It belongs in a dumpster fire.
• This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.

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