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The way Snowden and Laura Pottas connect in Hong Kong resembles a spy war movie. Snowden leads Laura into the hotel room by pretending to be a stranger.
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In the hotel room, in order to prevent eavesdropping, Snowden used pillows to block the door of the room, and a magic hat made of shading cloth over his head to operate the keyboard to prevent it from being photographed by the camera. Fire alarms without warning often scared them.
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Before bidding farewell to Hong Kong, Port Ass had hoped that Snowden would help her carry the camera with her to complete the filming, but Snowden rejected the proposal after weighing the possible complications.
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This is not the first time that the U.S. government has encountered “leaks”. In Citizenfour, a former NSA employee and decryption mathematician William Binney, who exposed the NSA’s unauthorized monitoring project to the New York Times in 2005, is based on him. The short film "Procedure" shot for the protagonist made Snowden get to know Portas.
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who was involved in the leak, was behind the successful departure of Snowden from Hong Kong and the application for political asylum in Russia .
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Due to the sensitivity of the film, Portas edited and produced "Citizenfour" in Germany in an extremely confidential manner.
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At the Oscars ceremony, the host stated that Snowden, the protagonist of "Citizenfour", was unable to attend because he was accused of treason.
Citizenfour behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Enid 2021-12-27 08:01:47
Watched live at the London Film Festival. Too beautiful! Although the fragments of the Hong Kong Hotel interview appear rough, they are precious. He is a very, very interesting subject. The people involved in this project are very courageous. See Tom Tykwer in the credits at the end of the film.
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Constantin 2021-12-27 08:01:47
#NYFF#World Premiere/Great! The protracted applause half an hour after the film shows that Snowden has a good reputation among the American people. I also think he is a hero~
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TITLE CARD]: A month later I start recieving anonymous encrypted emails.
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TITLE CARD]: The NSA has built the world's largest repository for intercepted communications in Bluffdale Utah. I started filming the site in 2011 when construction began.