www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Home / World

Assange blasts new film about WikiLeaks

By Jacques Klopp in London | China Daily | Updated: 2013-10-11 07:25

The Fifth Estate, recounting how WikiLeaks rocked the US administration, has its worldwide release in Britain on Friday, but the website's creator, Julian Assange, has slammed the film as "cowardly".

British Prime Minister David Cameron praised the performance of Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Assange complete with platinum-blonde hair, but the British actor was on the end of a stinging rebuke from the man he portrays.

"I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film," Assange said, according to an e-mail released by WikiLeaks.

"It is a work of political opportunism, influence, revenge and, above all, cowardice.

"It seeks to ride on the back of our work, our reputation and our struggles."

In an e-mail sent to AFP from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange is holed up in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sex-abuse claims, the former hacker blasted the film as "a geriatric snoozefest that only the US government could love".

Assange blasts new film about WikiLeaks

The Australian-born activist has been holed up in the embassy since June 2012, claiming he was afraid of eventually being deported to the US over the publication of hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents on his website.

Cumberbatch, a rising star in Hollywood best known for his villainous role in the film Star Trek Into Darkness, recently expressed concern over the film's script, telling Vogue magazine he was worried that it was "setting (Assange) up as this anti-social megalomaniac".

The Fifth Estate follows the WikiLeaks story between 2007 and 2010, from the publication of War Logs, which revealed abuses by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan and through "Cablegate", the massive release of US diplomatic memos that embarrassed governments around the world.

The film is inspired by the autobiography of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German activist who was WikiLeaks' spokesman until his acrimonious departure in 2010. He is played by Spanish-born German actor Daniel Bruehl.

The Assange camp argues that this renders the film unreliable as Domscheit-Berg has been engaged in a "personal and legal" battle with WikiLeaks since his exit.

Assange dismissed the German as a minor player and claimed the filmmakers had lost sight of the "true" WikiLeaks story.

"Instead of the exciting true story, we get a film about a bland German IT worker who wasn't even there," Assange wrote to AFP.

"People love the true WikiLeaks story: a small group of dedicated journalists and tech activists who take on corruption and state criminality against the odds," he added. "But this film isn't about that."

Assange was not consulted during the project, and his only contact with the film's crew was the Internet exchange with Cumberbatch, in which he urged the actor to pull out.

"I believe that you should reconsider your involvement in this enterprise," he wrote.

"You will be used, as a hired gun, to assume the appearance of the truth in order to assassinate it. To create a work, not of fiction, but of debased truth.

"Not because you want to, of course you don't, but because, in the end, you are a jobbing actor who gets paid to follow the script, no matter how debauched," he added.

However, British Prime Minister Cameron has been allowed to see the finished product, describing Cumberbatch's performance as "brilliant".

Other critics suggested that the film suffers in comparison to The Social Network, the feature film about Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.

Like Assange, Zuckerberg was also unhappy about the way his life was portrayed on the big screen.

Agence France-Presse

(China Daily 10/11/2013 page10)

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: a久久99精品久久久久久不 | 国产精品美女免费视频大全 | a国产成人免费视频 | 国产精品免费看 | 毛片精品 | 特级淫片欧美高清视频蜜桃 | 日本wwwwwwwww | 99国产精品视频久久久久 | 国产成人午夜性视频影院 | 精品91精品91精品国产片 | 亚洲天堂色网站 | 亚洲特黄视频 | 亚洲一区二区三区四区五区六区 | 爽爽日本在线视频免费 | 久草在线免费新视频 | 国产精品黄网站免费进入 | 久久精品国产99国产精品 | 欧美特级大片 | 超级碰碰碰视频视频在线视频 | 久久一区二区精品 | 中国一级淫片aaa毛片毛片 | 国产亚洲欧美在线人成aaaa | 成人免费视频社区 | 二区三区在线 | 黄色网址在线免费看 | 亚洲精品99久久久久久 | 欧美成人免费xxx大片 | a毛片视频免费观看影院 | 欧美一级毛片免费看视频 | 欧美综合自拍亚洲综合百度 | 精品400部自拍视频在线播放 | 久久福利青草精品资源站 | 成人影院一区二区三区 | 亚洲精品国产综合一线久久 | 99热热久久这里只有精品166 | 最新毛片久热97免费精品视频 | 手机看片免费基地你懂的 | 精品久久久久久综合日本 | 亚洲日本激情 | 久草勉费视频 | 鸥美性生交xxxxx久久久 |