timespace coordinates: ’70s – ’80s NYC
The Apprentice is a 2024 biographical film that examines Donald Trump‘s career as a real estate businessman in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as his relationship with attorney Roy Cohn. Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman, the film stars Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Cohn, Martin Donovan as Trump’s father Fred, and Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife, Ivana. (wiki)
Various dated visual textures were used to give the movie a more authentic feeling, making it look almost like a documentary. The crew used 16mm film to shoot the scenes from the 1970s, and a filter mimicking the look of a VHS video for scenes from the 1980s.
Roger Stone, longtime associate of both Donald Trump and Roy M. Cohn, admitted that Jeremy Strong‘s portrayal of Cohn was “uncanny in its accuracy.”
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