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The Big Picture Director Ari Abbasi's explosive new film The Apprentice has traveled an exciting, turbulent journey to movie theaters. From a Palme d'Or nomination at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where the film held its World Premiere to a shaky release thanks to financing controversies, to being threatened with lawsuits from Donald Trump himself. After much fanfare and speculation, The Apprentice is releasing in theaters for the public to experience.
ALI ABBASI: I'm happy you picked up on that, Steve. That was certainly a big part of us not wanting to do a biopic in this traditional sense. They always feel a bit dusty and stiff to me, even the bad guys. They have perfect hair, and they sit in the perfect light, and they're talking importantly about important things that happen to them, and that's not life. If you look at the ‘80s with these guys and these parties, the crazy parties they had...
What we needed to focus on was Trump's character development and the way he deals with his brother's death and all. So that's why we changed that. We added the scene where he goes to his dad and wants to take over the family trust fund. Again, for the same reason. It wasn't, happily, because of the situation we were in, which was uncertainty —"if the movie ever comes out" uncertainty. That wasn't the happy part.
ABBASI: Let me tell you exactly how much we edited it: February, March, April. Three months. Three months not only to edit the movie but also to finish the VFX. Start and finish the VFX and sound and everything. It is a kind of crazy. Those things you do once, and you don't know if you can do it again. It was rough, but it was fun. It was punk rock.
As you know, there's been arguing about the movie. On the liberal side, we have made them too human — they're bringing too much space, too much oxygen, and being too soft. Then, on the other side, we did a hit job — there’s criticism, they're monsters and whatnot. In a way, I'm thinking if we pissed both sides off, we've done something right.
ABBASI: That's a Hollywood thing. They're like, “Okay, we told you this, but what happened is that he went, and he married, and he survived, and they went into hiding, and they're okay. Don't worry about it.” That gives you closure outside of the movie. But for me, what that does is it delegitimizes the movie, as well. It says, “Okay, you've been seeing a piece of whatever entertainment, and then here's this information.
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