Cannes 2023 #9, with Justin Chang, Dennis Lim, and Rachel Rosen
The Film Comment Podcast
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The FBI and the Scorsese Story
Having read the book I was a little disappointed that you okay yeah I mean it's it's a rare case I actually wish I maybe would have been better off not reading because it experienced the film more more pure. The Jesse Plemons character Tom White in the movie is is one of the more interesting characters in in the story and I think by taking that element out of itIt's hard because so much of the layers of like what the conspiracy actually is and how it was done comes to light because of the investigation but I understand why Scorsese and Eric Roth in writing the script didn't want to turn it into just procedural mode white man heroism FBI here we come in. Jad
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