They insisted on watching the soon-to-be infamous video three times and then quickly began writing notes.While the film doesn't recreate the actual video, Donovan says it gets the backroom politics "bang on."
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His rhetoric ultimately fuelled intolerant right-wing sentiment.“He’s this guy who really got all the working class voting for him because he made them think he was doing it for them,” adds Massoud, who was a Ryerson University student when Ford was in office. But you won't find them in the new film. #NoRegrets“People boil stories down to 140 characters,” says Run This Town’s director Ricky Tollman, the day after the SXSW premiere last March. News that Damian Lewis, the star of Billions and Homeland, is set to portray the late Toronto mayor He says there are a lot of reporters with integrity who worked on the Rob Ford story, but that is not his movie. It’s easy to tell the story of the person who broke the story. “But you have to know the context of those feelings and where your privilege puts you in a room so that you can address other people’s feelings as well.”If this conversation about white male privilege is a tad confusing, it’s not all that clear in the movie, either. The investigative reporter stresses the Toronto Star never paid to see the video and says the film sends the wrong message. "He would have been the guy who when he got into a room would have gone into the corner and been quiet and you would have had to approach him." "The first time I watched it I felt angry that they had taken that licence and erased what we did," Donovan says.
The film from writer-director Ricky Tollman uses a mixture of real and fictional characters to tell a story many Torontonians lived through.Ford, a polarizing and populist leader who died of cancer in 2016, became internationally known for his drug and alcohol use while in office, largely due to a cellphone video that showed Ford smoking crack cocaine.CBC News contacted reporters and colleagues who watched As a longtime city councillor, Joe Mihevc says the film focuses on Ford's salacious side but misses what attracted voters.While Mihevc was no fan of Ford's politics, he says the mayor wasn't mean-spirited to his staff, as portrayed in the movie. He saw the toll that had on him and his friends, and wanted to make a film about his peers who are trapped by those wheels of power. What the Rob Ford movie Run This Town gets right — and what it gets wrong. From the day Ben Platt was announced to play an inexperienced reporter working the Ford crack-tape case, Doolittle, now a Globe and Mail reporter, re-inserted herself into the story The tweet stirred controversy and Doolittle has since hung over Run This Town like a structuring absence. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Posted Comments on this story are moderated according to ourIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onRun This Town is a new Canadian film inspired by the time when Rob Ford was Toronto's mayor. “He was not that at all. That’s why people need to look beyond 140 characters and read a story and do their own research and get involved in politics and make their voice heard and not just rely on a single person’s voice.”We’re in an Austin hotel’s conference room.