The FBI vs. It's a Wonderful Life
In a turn of events, the FBI absolutely detested the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life. According to Director Hoover, the movie apparently "represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture." He felt that it was supporting communism.
The FBI vs. Borat
Naturally, the FBI wasn't a fan of Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen said that the FBI was following them as they were filming. "Sometimes it was the police, then the FBI was following us for a while. They had so many complaints that there was a Middle Eastern man driving through America in an ice cream van, that the FBI assigned a team to us."
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