{"id":286,"date":"2018-06-23T18:11:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=286"},"modified":"2018-06-23T18:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T18:12:51","slug":"all-the-money-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/drama\/all-the-money-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Money in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXHrCBkIxQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This account of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the subsequent clash between his mother, Gail, and &#8216;richest man in history&#8217; Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom is directed by Ridley Scott. It turns out Scott is still a very competent director when he has a fixed script to deal with. As the continuing Alien debacle evidences though, he can no longer be trusted with greater artistic control.<\/p>\n<p>The fashion for kidnapping rich kids by European communist groups in the 70s is a good reminder that terrorism is not a new invention. The young Getty gets taken in Southern Italy, but his Grandfather refuses to pay, always seeking a bargain, and more significantly to use the situation to his advantage in gaining custody of all his grandchildren after Gail&#8217;s estrangement from his drug addicted son. Enter Mark Wahlberg in<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/researchmark?lang=en\"> Research Mark mode<\/a>, crossed with CIA Mark (he has glasses so we know he&#8217;ll be sensitive). Plummer is ideally cast as the elderly Getty, with his Roman Empire obsession and fading dreams of a dynasty. Michelle Williams holds the centre of the film admirably as Gail, scrabbling to negotiate with two sets of ransoms, and the indifference of the Getty empire.<\/p>\n<p>The dusty poverty of Southern Italy is well evoked, you can feel the heat and the flies, and there is requisite tension and drama to make it a film worth viewing, if not enough of any of these to make it highly recommended. However, as the voiceover of the young Getty says of the super rich &#8220;We look like you, but we&#8217;re not like you&#8221;, and while this otherness forms the foundation of the conflict, it is not really explored. I wanted to be angry that _anyone_ has as much money as Getty, not just that he was a miserable old bastard with it. In the end, an interesting historical account, well told, but no lasting message either morally or cinematically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This account of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the subsequent clash between his mother, Gail, and &#8216;richest man in history&#8217; Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom is directed by Ridley Scott. It turns out Scott is still a very competent director when he has a fixed&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/drama\/all-the-money-in-the-world\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}