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Satire about the world of the super-rich.Satire about the world of the super-rich.Satire about the world of the super-rich.
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- TriviaSacha Baron Cohen was originally going to play Sir Richard McCreadie but dropped out. After Steve Coogan was cast in the lead Isla Fisher was cast as Sir Richard McCreadie's ex-wife and she is married to Sacha Baron Cohen in real life.
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Samantha: No one reads the Mail Online, it's cleavage clickbait!
Sir Richard McCreadie: Yeah, except I'M the tit this time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Projector: Greed (2020) (2020)
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It's a pity that this ends with a slide-show of factoids apparently intended to give the issues raised by the film a 'men vs women' or 'third world vs first' slant. Actually, what the all-too-true-to-life story is about is money vs no money: the fact that most of it is scooped up by a few arrogant, entitled, savvy people, and the rest of us - men as much as women, west as much as east - are at their mercy. Haven't we just recently seen the way our former public water utilities have been given the Philip Green treatment by unscrupulous capitalists, 'leveraged' for billions while our rivers are choked with sewage? And similarly, there's a moment of moral clarity about how the amoral 'Green' fails to recognise the moral freight of what he does - 'in his mind, all he does is offer a price' - but the same does not extend to some 'good guy' characters whose actions are simply indefensible.
There's a pinch of amusement here, and a peck of anger, but none of it will have any effect on the Philip Greens of this world. They are too stupid and arrogant to be hurt by satire and, whatever devastation they wreak on others, they somehow always come out on top. Realising that, you can only come away depressed.
There's a pinch of amusement here, and a peck of anger, but none of it will have any effect on the Philip Greens of this world. They are too stupid and arrogant to be hurt by satire and, whatever devastation they wreak on others, they somehow always come out on top. Realising that, you can only come away depressed.
- gilleliath
- Jul 29, 2023
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- 貪婪之人
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- Gross US & Canada
- $355,308
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $24,163
- Mar 1, 2020
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- $1,460,431
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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