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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
2021-12-27 08:01
Extended Reading
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Olen 2022-04-01 09:01:08
Project Prism is a top-secret electronic surveillance program implemented by the National Security Agency since the Bush era in 2007. The British "Guardian" and the American "Washington Post" reported on June 6, 2013 that the US National Security Agency and the FBI launched a secret surveillance project code-named "Prism" in 2007, which directly entered the US Internet. The company's central server mines data and collects intelligence, and all nine international network giants are involved.
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Isac 2021-12-27 08:01:47
Snowden is so handsome, who cares what else the film says. truth. ★★★☆
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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.