Hugh Linehan: What I learned from Trump coming-of-age movie The Apprentice
The Apprentice isn’t a movie about the reality TV series that made its presenter, New York businessman Donald Trump, a star. Instead it tracks the relationship from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, between Trump (Sebastian Stan) as a young man desperate for acknowledgment, fame and wealth and the legendary lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), a whatever-it-takes fixer for a host of shady clients, including the mob.
It is Trump who is the apprentice here, eagerly learning from an amoral master and latching on to a particular style of “winning”.
This vivid, sometimes fun, always compelling telling…
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