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Snowden: The Only Safe Place Is on the Run Kindle Edition

by Oliver Stone (Author), David Talbot (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
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A courageous look at a historic figure.

From Oscar®-winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the twenty-first century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in US intelligence history. This official motion picture screenplay edition, written by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone, includes a foreword by David Talbot and dozens of photos from the film.

In 2013, Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) quietly leaves his job at the NSA and flies to Hong Kong to meet with journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson), and filmmaker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) to reveal US government cyber surveillance programs of epic proportions. A top security contractor with virtuoso programming skills, Ed has discovered that a virtual mountain of data on digital communication is being assembled—not just from foreign governments and terror groups, but from ordinary Americans.

Disillusioned with his work in the intelligence community, Snowden meticulously gathers hundreds of thousands of secret documents that will expose the full extent of the abuses. Leaving his longtime love Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley) behind, Ed finds the courage to act on his principles. Snowden opens the door on the untold story of Edward Snowden, examining the forces that turned a conservative young eager patriot into a historic whistleblower and posing provocative questions about which liberties we are willing to trade for protection.
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Kieran Fitzgerald is a director, editor, cinematographer, and screenwriter. He is the writer of The Homesman and The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández.

Academy Award-winning Oliver Stone has written and directed over 25 feature films and 6 documentaries, among them some of the most influential and iconic films of the last decades. Some have been at deep odds with conventional myth—films such as Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, and Untold History of the United States.

David Talbot is the founder of Salon and author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government and Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01L62U1MM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse; Media Tie In edition (September 16, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 16, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 530 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Patrick Fish
5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2024
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This is the screenplay of the movie bit an interesting story as well. America's government is spying on their own citizens who have done nothing wrong. Everything you do online is saved in a system by the NSA and other alphabet agencies. FISA warrants go against the 4th amendment as does the collecting of personal data. This should be required reading for every citizen of the U.S.
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Watch Snowden
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2016
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I love screenwriting and reading screenplays and am a big fan of Oliver Stone's work. This script is accurate to what I saw in the theater. It was a great picture, Snowden is a great patriot, and I consider this a return to form for Oliver Stone. Snowden is Stone's best picture since Nixon and JFK. Go to the theaters and watch Snowden.
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5.0 out of 5 stars VERY IMPORTANT FILM
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2016
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Every person in the world needs to see this movie
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margie.
3.0 out of 5 stars Hate the format
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020
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The format made for difficult reading which takes away from any enjoyment the book may offer. I do appreciate learning more about the Edward Snowden story.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2017
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Everyone should watch this film to better understand Snowden.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016
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Really good screenplay and it shipped fast.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017
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i threw it away
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Nat
5.0 out of 5 stars Can you believe it.
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018
Can we believe we don’t have any privacy even in your own bedroom. The guy said it well in the movie “ Americans worry more about security than freedom”. This is one of the reason everyone yell at him the word “Traitor”. Government agency spy on us and lied to Congress is creepy and scary.
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Morrison Stone
5.0 out of 5 stars Oliver Stone's first script since Alexander.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2017
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An amazing script yet to see the film but I read this script in one and half days script 159 pages. Really well written.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2016
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Great story, it is a wakeup call on how far big brother can do!
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