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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney released a documentary titled "Musk" on Friday, 2023, after Elon Musk rejected his interview request by calling him a derogatory term on X (formerly Twitter). The three-hour and fifty-five-minute film portrays Musk as dangerous to the world without providing balanced insights. Instead of interviewing real people who know Musk, Gibney opts for an animated AI version of Musk that he controls, using decontextualized quotes to criticize Musk’s actions and character.
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In 2023, Alex Gibney, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, released a documentary titled Musk without including interviews with its subject, Elon Musk, who called Gibney "a douche" when asked for an interview. The film uses an animated AI version of Musk to portray him as a villainous figure, contradicting the narrative that viewers might otherwise form from Musk's public statements and achievements like building reusable rockets or developing self-driving cars. By presenting decontextualized snippets in this way, Gibney attempts to support his thesis that Musk is a threat to the world unless stopped. The documentary runs for three hours and 55 minutes, showcasing Gibney’s ambition but lacking in balanced representation of Musk's contributions.
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In 2023, Alex Gibney, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker, announced that he was working on a documentary about Elon Musk.
asserted
he → win → Musk
He asked Musk for an interview.
asserted
He → ask → interview
The answer was delivered on X: “Gibney,” Musk informed his 241.5 million followers, “is a douche.
asserted
Musk → deliver → followers
You could take the world’s richest man at his word.
uncertain
You → take → word
Or you could spend three hours and 55 minutes watching Gibney do his best to prove Musk right.
uncertain
Musk → spend → best
The director’s new film, released Friday and simply titled Musk, brings the same monomaniacal energy to assassinating its subject’s character that Musk himself brings to building reusable rockets or self-driving cars.
asserted
Musk → release → rockets
The scope of Gibney’s ambition is revealed early on in the film: Because Musk wouldn’t sit down for an interview, Gibney coos as the opening credits roll, the director decided to create an animated AI Elon and interview it instead.
asserted
director → reveal → it
In the hands of a filmmaker actually curious about his subject, this decision might’ve generated some genuine insights, especially as Robo-Musk was only fed lines that IRL Musk had spoken in public interviews.
uncertain
Musk → generate → interviews
Instead, Gibney gives us a cartoonish Bond villain, sitting on a gaming chair and spitting out decontextualized snippets meant to support the film’s not-so-subtle thesis: Unless we somehow stop him, Elon Musk will destroy the world.
asserted
Musk → give → world
Gibney seems to mean it literally: The movie’s poster shows Musk standing atop the globe, having cut it in half with a chainsaw, and the film itself begins with a poorly animated sequence showing the earth exploding in slow motion.
asserted
earth → seem → motion
And that’s just the first five minutes.
asserted
that → ’ → ?
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