Making money is easy, making money is hard

Leatha 2022-04-20 09:01:47

Kevin Spacey's "The World of Money" was eventually banned. The 80-year-old director Ridley Scott was unconvinced and replaced him with Christopher Plummer, an old man seven years older than him. He shot Spacey's scene in just 9 days, and finally saved the film.

(So ​​it can be said that this is a movie created by an 80-year-old man, Jiang is still old and spicy, and sometimes it makes sense)

Spacey would certainly play a darker and more layered Getty, but Plummer has a lingering weakness and paranoia.

The richest man in the world, who is unwilling to pay his grandson's ransom, is not as simple as selfishness, greed, and ruthlessness. He has a dark and weak side in his heart. The world and the motivation of behavior, this is the most interesting part of the movie.

What left the deepest impression on the film was this sentence of the richest man:

It's easy to get rich. Everybody can get rich. It's very difficult to BE rich.

The translation is: it is easy to make money and it is difficult to make money .

So everyone lives in their own logic.

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All the Money in the World quotes

  • Oswald Hinge: Ms. Getty, we offer you our sincerest condolences.

    Gail Harris: Well, you're very thoughtful.

    Oswald Hinge: Please, sit. Mr. Getty's death has created a bit of a crisis here. You see, the estate was structured as a charitable family trust.

    Gail Harris: Did he ever give any money to charity?

    Oswald Hinge: No. No.

    Gail Harris: The trust enabled Mr. Getty to build his fortune without paying taxes. There was just one catch. Under the rules of the trust, he couldn't actually spend the money.

    Gail Harris: What's the point of making all that money if you can't spend it?

    Oswald Hinge: Well, he couldn't spend it, but he could invest it.So, he invested it in things. Art. Antiques. Soon, he had a... A staggering amount of things.And a staggering amount of money. Now someone has to decide what to do with it all.

    Gail Harris: What do you want with me?

    Oswald Hinge: How do I put this... The king is dead. The throne is vacant. Your children are his heirs. Until they come of age,someone has to make the decisions. Which means, of course, someone has to take his place.

  • Gail Harris: Paul? Come say hello to Mr. Chace. Or goodbye. I'm not sure which.

    Fletcher Chace: He's gonna be trouble with the ladies.

    John Paul Getty III: I already am.

    Gail Harris: I do hope you'll stay on with us. I know you had other ambitions, but..

    Fletcher Chace: Guys like me don't get rich. We get sidetracked too easily.

    Gail Harris: Shame.

    Fletcher Chace: Not really.

    Gail Harris: I think of you as family.

    Fletcher Chace: Kind of you to say so, ma'am. Was a couple things around the grounds that I've been meaning to see to.

    Gail Harris: Yes, of course. Don't let me keep you.