Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is making a cinematic return to America after falling of the U.S. political map, in a documentary film that reveals he believed he was the key to Donald Trump's 2016 victory but detested working in the West Wing in 2017.
'If I had not come in as the CEO of the campaign, Trump would not have won,' Bannon boasts in 'The Brink,' a biopic that screened last month at the Sundance Film Festival.
And early in the film, reviewers have noted, he explains why he would allow a camera-wielding documentarian to follow him nearly non-stop for 15 months.
'Trump taught me a great lesson,' he says. 'There’s no bad media.'
A trailer released Monday provides a hint of how far that logic might stretch on the big screen.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon allowed a documentary filmmaker to shadow him for 15 months; the result is an unflattering biopic that opens in theaters this month
Bannon, pictured in his White House office in 2017, complained that he 'hated every second' of the job and boasted that without him the nation would have Hillary Clinton as president
President Donald Trump made Bannon his campaign CEO less than three months before Election Day 2016; Bannon boasts that he was the secret to Trump's success
In one scene Bannon literally bangs his head against a cabinet repeatedly as he strains to bend the White House's bureaucracy to his will.
'There's no glamor to the job at all. I hated every second I was there,' he says, mirroring sentiments he expressed while he was still in the job.
'Why keep doing it?' DailyMail.com once asked him in his West Wing office?
'Some s**t has got to get done, dude' he replied. 'It's just got to, and some bastard has to do it.'
In a series of text messages Monday, Bannon declined to comment about the film on the record.
The president came to hate his onetime ideological link to America's right-wing voters, firing him and then blasting him on Twitter as a press-leaking 'Sloppy Steve' – a jab at his unmade-bed approach to fashion.
But most of 'The Brink' concerns Bannon's present, not his past, cobbling together a coalition of far-right political parties and their allies in an agglomeration known as 'The Movement.'
The trailer's crescendo dead-ends into a newspaper interview scene in which Guardian reporter Paul Lewis accuses him of playing to the worst of Europe by turning billionaire financier George Soros into his immigration 'amnesty' whipping-boy.
'You're doing dog-whistle anti-Semitism here,' Lewis charges, after blasting him for making common cause with Europeans 'connected to neo-fascism, energizing hate.'
'Hate black people, hate Muslims, it's not right,' says Lewis.
The president once considered Bannon's voice one worth listening to; ultimately he fired him, blaming him for press leaks, and claled him 'Sloppy Steve' on Twitter
'The Brink' makes a subtle case that Bannon is using money of nefarious origins to organize a movement of far-right political parties across Europe, an attempt to move the political needle as an entrepreneur the way he couldn't amid the White House's bureaucracy
Bannon says in the movie that Trump taught him there's no such thing as bad press; 'The Brink' will test that theory
The trailer depicts him sowing the seeds of Trumpian immigration politics in several countries during the summer of 2018, accompanied by former Breitbart News London bureau chief Raheem Kassam.
Kassam recently purchased the dusty conservative weekly newspaper Human Events and plans to re-birth it farther away from the political center as a 'MAGAzine.' He no longer moves in Bannon's orbit.
But the pair are shown entertaining former UK Independence Party chief Nigel Farage as he warns that 'the real battle is not in Washington; this is the future of all our states.'
Mischaël Modrikamen, the co-founder and leader of Belgium's right-wing People's Party, derides 'Islam, so-called refugees.'
In another scene, after he advises the leaders of Marine Le Pen's National Rally party, formerly named National Front, director Alison Klayman interjects: 'What did I just watch? Are you now consulting for the National Rally Party?
'And your point?' Bannon replies with a chuckle.
'Every nationalist party that looks viable, I'm trying to help,' he says.
'The Brink' opens March 29 in theaters, directed by Alison Klayman (left)
He does it with a well-thumbed copy of 'The War Years, 1861-1864,' the second volume of Carl Sandburg's three-part biography of Abraham Lincoln. Bannon famously carries it everywhere he goes, equal parts inspiration and affectation.
Bannon carries this edition of volume 2 of Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln biography wherever he goes
'They wish to get rid of me, and I am sometimes half disposed to gratify them,' he reads aloud in one scene, casting himself as Honest Abe commiserating with the Republican Senator Orville Browning in 1862 after a jealous Secretary of State William Seward threatened his resignation.
'We are now on the brink of destruction. It appears to me the Almighty is against us,' Lincoln said then, 'and I can hardly see a ray of hope.'
Bannon is 'a keen manipulator of the press and gifted self-promoter,' distributor Magnolia Pictures said Monday in a press release.
'Bannon continues to draw headlines and protests wherever he goes, feeding the powerful myth on which his survival relies.'
Klayman says in a written Q&A distributed to reporters that she saw the limits of Bannon's intellect.
'[T]here I was filming quietly, seething, screaming in my head, and he would say things that weren't true, or infuriated me,' says Klayman.
'He thrives on arguing, and because he doesn't have respect for the truth, or for nuance, I came to see that his understanding of many things was thin. When he doesn't have an answer for something, he changes the topic.'
'The Brink' opens in theaters on March 29, and will get a public screening Tuesday in Washington.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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