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關於記者會的一些內容，提到BC對Julian Assange的詮釋和看法

Benedict Cumerbatch: "I imagine Julian Assange won’t particularly want to support The Fifth Estate"

“My role is not to impersonate but to interpret,” says Cumberbatch, who admits Assange kept away from the big-screen WikiLeaks project

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“I wanted not to impersonate but to interpret," said Cumberbatch. "There’s an acreage of footage online. A lot of it is formal, him in presentational mode – arguing or being interviewed or talking about any particular issue to do with WikiLeaks. That’s one mode. The film investigates the man in a more private mode of friendship and working relationship with Daniel Domscheit-Berg [played by Daniel Bruhl]. Very much off camera and out of the public eye and his reaction to certain events. So that was the harder part, I guess.”

Asked how Assange would react if he did see the film, Cumberbatch said, “I’m not him, surprisingly enough, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. I really don’t want to venture what his reaction’s going to be. I’m not a betting man, but I imagine he won’t particularly want to support the film. But we’ll have to wait and see.

“I’m not a mind reader, even though I’ve tried to get into his mind to a certain degree. I think personally that we show a man and his idea and integrity and self sacrifice that he had to pursue to see that through.

“As an actor, approaching a role you have to find a level of empathy with your character. Certainly as an actor I want to find out the three dimensionality behind the character. Not to soften the edges at all. It’s nearer to a human experience for audiences, so we can relate to it and aren’t ostracised. It’s not telling us how to think. I get bored of doing that kind of work or watching that kind of work."

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"The Fifth Estate" Press Conference - 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

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"The Fifth Estate" Portraits - 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

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目前幾篇影評出來的評價偏向綜合，劇情部分比不上另外一部類似的電影The Social Network，但是演員部分表現極為出色，認為角色表現來說BC的演技足以入圍奧斯卡。

Eric Kohn of Indiewire called it “an uneven, intermittently thoughtful but largely preachy overview of WikiLeaks’ rising influence.”

His colleague John Anderson, writing on Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood blog, was more generous, saying: “It’s early to be speculating about awards, but Cumberbatch has certainly accomplished the unlikely, making a chilly public character a sympathetic martyr to a noble cause.”

Academy members are older, richer, and may be less anti-authoritarian than yours truly — but there’s no denying Cumberbatch’s infectious, righteous rage as Assange, a man so blinded by the injustice he witnesses that he can only see things in black and white. If there is an Oscar-contender here, it’s Cumberbatch, who shows that the ugly side of Assange goes beyond his narcissism, bitter rudeness, or self-mythologizing deception.

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And both films choose as their key arc the relationship between men most closely associated with the site's inception. But while The Social Network kept the focus on the anti-hero, relegating Eduardo Saverin's role to support, this one bumps up the best friend to a lead, overestimating our interest in Domscheit-Berg's lovelife. Not that the film is really that interested either. At heart, The Fifth Estate is a good, old-fashioned bromance – Assange even gets to meet the parents (spoiler: it doesn't go well).

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Perhaps Condon and Singer felt they had already made Assange out to be a first class asshole, so they didn’t need to pile on. Benedict Cumberbatch is best known for playing righteous geniuses who are clinically diagnosable pains in the ass, and his Assange is no different — The Fifth Estate is not a hagiography. And Cumberbatch’s performance is never less than compelling. One of the film’s best moments is when Assange realizes he is being watched by both U.S. and Russian agents, and the camera just rests on Cumberbatch’s face as it twitches with anxiety and paranoia, one of the only times we get to feel what it is like to be a man who uses the internet to take on national governments. But I can’t say Cumberbatch is ever surprising. In fact, there are times when the exasperation on the face of Assange’s right-hand man Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl, Inglorious Basterds) — whose book is one of the main sources for Singer’s screenplay — feels akin to Martin Freeman’s Watson in Sherlock, or, more darkly, Chris Pine’s Kirk inStar Trek Into Darkness.

Once Manning’s revelations come to light, the film does kick into a more familiar spy thriller-y gear, with Laura Linney and Stanley Tucci playing a pair of State Department officials dealing with the fallout. We finally see the human cost of Assange’s zealotry, through a Lybian official and State Department source played by Alexander Siddig (Syriana). But for a film about a man who has devoted his life to transparency, it is remarkable just how little the film is able to reveal about Assange.

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'The Fifth Estate' Premieres in Toronto
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch arrives at "The Fifth Estate" premiere during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2013 in Toronto, Canada.
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