Jeff Reichert Donna Danielsğredell Pogodin, Cindy Joung Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2005ĭistributor Contact: Press Contact NY/Nat’l: Press Contact LA/Nat’l: So consider me C-SPAN for the purposes of this post, giving you the raw info, instead of MSNBC, putting my spin on things. I am sure I will have more to say after I read the thing, but I don’t know when that will be. I’m pasting it here, but it looks more official with the Magnolia letterhead and proper formatting. *Corrected from original to include Timothy Belden.įull disclosure: I haven’t read this documentyet, the production notes (from Magnolia Pictures) of Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room. Bethany and her cohorts chose to focus on the lurid, manipulatable aspects of Enron. Scott Yeager would have ultimately destroyed the credibility of Bethany McLean since he was vindicated at the Supreme Court.
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Only Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Ken Rice, Timothy Belden* and Andy Fastow were actually discussed in the movie – and what was said about them was koo-koo bananas. In fact, most Enron defendants did not appear. And the fact that “cast” is being used sounds like my pet peeve, mistaking Enron people (or anyone else for that matter) for cartoons and “characters”.Īs for why Scott did not “appear” in the movie (as opposed to being “cast”), not every Enron executive was discussed in the movie. As for why he was not “cast”… basically nobody accused of crimes was going to willingly sit down and explain themselves before trial. No, Scott Yeager is not in Smartest Guys In The Room. Whoever is asking is obviously in distress so I figured I would help. (This one I included because it has a very strange search term about Kevin Hannon)
From his Oscar-winning account of the US military’s use of illegal coercion methods in Taxi to the Dark Side and further examples of individual exceptionalism in US culture ( Client 9, Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, The Armstrong Lie) to his account of abuse in the Catholic Church ( Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God) and exploration of an organisation that enjoys the freedoms of being listed as a religion ( Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief), Alex Gibney has consistently proven himself an adept chronicler of the issues that compound modern life.This query has been asked at least fifteen times, probably more like twenty-five. But it’s the way Gibney reveals these men’s personalities, initially charming before a darker side emerges, that makes the film so compelling. Lay, the more refined of the two, had learned to shroud his avarice under a cloak of respectability – and through his association with the Bush dynasty – whereas Skilling was his raw, unvarnished id. Employing the rudiments of Darwin, Skilling’s outrageous behaviour eventually removes Lay’s façade. As a double act, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are hard to beat. What happened at Enron continued to Worldcom and eventually the global economy.
Want to the see the first signpost to the modern age of unfettered greed, look no further than this film. Three reasons to watch Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room It wasn’t helped that global accounting firm Arthur Anderson were more than a little relaxed in their practices, a mistake that eventually led to their downfall. Particularly when it emerged that the electricity outages that Californians experienced in 2001 – a major cause of Grey Davis’ losing governorship of the state in 2003 – was being artificially manipulated by Enron employees in order to boost their company’s share price. But even she may not have realised the extent to which the organisation was rigging the ‘game’. Against a wall of opposition, McLean persisted in her belief that the company was somehow inflating its value beyond any reasonable – or realistic – price. Enron opens in the style of a conspiracy thriller before introducing us to journalist Bethany McLean, whose ‘Fortune’ article was both the first shot across Enron’s bow and solid evidence that led to its collapse. His skill lay in taking a story and, drawing on mainstream feature-filmmaking practices, creating a riveting narrative that possesses the energy and drive of a high-octane thriller. Enron established Gibney as a leading documentary filmmaker of his generation.
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