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What a brilliant (if unintended) publicity stunt for the movie ;) More seriously, I think Assange is acting a bit like Zuckerberg vis a vis The Social Network.
by argumentum 13y ago
What a brilliant (if unintended) publicity stunt for the movie ;) More seriously, I think Assange is acting a bit like Zuckerberg vis a vis The Social Network. All in all, Zuckerberg was the hero of the movie .. he was portrayed as a brilliant hacker and visionary (if flawed) businessman. My feeling is that Assange will be similarly portrayed (except of course replacing "businessman" with "journalist").
If a movie were ever to be made about me, it would feel insulting to be portrayed as flawless. There are no great characters without flaws.
- kbenson 13y agoI think the point is that to some people, having an extremely flattering view of them put forth is less important than having an accurate view. In part, that may be because people assume if their reasoning is exposed then the public would be with them, so that's flattering enough. (Logically, it's not possible the public would always agree, because otherwise we would never have disagreements).
- argumentum 13y agoI think the Social Network, for example, is quite accurate about the most important things (the zeitgeist of how a startup like Facebook comes about .. the energy, the betrayals (both perceived and real), the craziness, the attitude of great founders etc). This is a movie and not a documentary .. for my money I expect the Director to put his creative efforts into making something enjoyable to watch. As long as it's not a blatant fabrication, fact for fact historical accuracy isn't why I'm going to watch this movie. Aaron Sorkin viewed Zuck & co as a vehicle to tell a larger (and more important) story about modern culture .. if The Fifth Estate accomplishes the same, it will be a great movie.