There is no good way to deal with fascism, film director Ali Abbasi told audiences at the Cannes Film Festival after the premiere of his film about Donald Trump.
“The Apprentice” premiered at a film festival in France, where audience members claimed the film contained a scene showing Trump sexually assaulting his wife, Ivana.
Ahead of the premiere, sources reportedly claimed the scene in question was consensual but uncomfortable, but festival audiences disagreed.
In the film, Ivana gives her husband a book about the female orgasm. Things take a turn for the worse when President Trump tells Ivana that he is no longer attracted to her. President Trump then apparently threw his wife Ivana to the ground and had non-consensual sex with her.
While raping her, Trump’s character allegedly said, “Is that your G-spot? Did I find it?”
The audience variety After the film, audience members shared their thoughts. One woman, reportedly in her 20s, called the scene “disgusting” and a “rape.” Another female audience member agreed, describing it as a sickening sexual assault.
After the screening, director Abbasi spoke in the theater about the meaning of his work. He continued his apocalyptic speech, implying that Trump was a fascist.
“Let me tell you a little bit about the philosophy behind this project. If you look at the news today, the president of Iran is dead, the prime minister of Israel is being indicted in an international tribunal, there’s a war in Ukraine, there’s a war in Sudan, all kinds of terrible things. is happening,” Abbasi said.
“I think in times of turmoil, there’s a tendency to look inward, to bury our heads deep in the sand, to look inward, to hope for the best, and for the storm to pass.”
“The storm is not going away, in fact, it is coming. The worst is yet to come. I’m sorry to be the bearer of good news for you all,” he said sarcastically.
“This ‘film’ is purely malicious defamation and should never see the light of day, let alone be worthy of being listed in the direct-to-DVD section.”
“When we made this movie, everyone said, ‘Why do you want to make a movie about Trump? If you want to say something about the world, you should do it in a good way, in a metaphorical way,'” the director said. look back.
“How about World War I movies? How about American independence movies?” he continued.
“The bottom line is that metaphorical methods will not work in dealing with the rise of fascism,” he continued. At that moment, the director paused, perhaps expecting the applause to stop, but in reality there was almost no applause.
“There are only messy ways, there are only mediocre ways. There are only ways to deal with this wave on your own terms and at your own level. It’s not going to be pretty, but I think the problem with the world is good people. I’ve been silent for too long.”
“I think it’s time to make cinema relevant. I think it’s time to make cinema political again.”
The Trump campaign later announced that it would file a lawsuit.
“We will be filing lawsuits to address the blatantly false claims made by these fake filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction to sensationalize lies that have long been debunked,” the campaign told Blaze News. “Like the illegal Biden trial, this is election interference by Hollywood elites who know that nothing they’ve done has worked and that President Trump will retake the White House and defeat the candidate of their choice.”
“This ‘movie’ is pure malicious defamation and should not see the light of day, nor does it even deserve to be in the bargain DVD section of a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store”, it belongs in a dumpster fire . ” Trump campaign communications director Stephen Chan added.
Variety has been told by an inside source that a number of changes were made to the script regarding the shocking scene, and discussions were held as to whether it was necessary to include it.
The film also shows Trump taking amphetamine pills, undergoing liposuction and surgery to remove his bald head, and shows the 45th president having little sympathy for a leader dying of AIDS and having his home fumigated when he leaves.
The film does not yet have distribution as of this writing, but is being sold by Hollywood giants CAA and WME.
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