I think the reason I like this movie so much may be that I found a sympathy with J. Paul Getty, that is, although I can never be as rich as him in my life, I may be like He is so cold, which shortened the distance between me and the richest man in the world a lot [smile]
Because of Spacey’s sex scandal, it took only 9 days to switch roles and make-up shots before the release. From the final product, the execution power is incredible, not to mention Mr. Plummer. When he was in danger, he even got an Oscar nomination for best actor. Although I am very curious about what Spacy’s version of the old Getty will look like, the billionaire under Plummer's interpretation does show extraordinary human complexity.
With a net worth of more than one billion US dollars, as the world’s richest man at the time, the rich man’s behavior in the movie was this: to save long-distance phone bills, he telegraphed his son, and was concise, apparently because of the telegram press. Word charge; because I think the hotel laundry charge is too expensive, I would rather take the clothes to the laundry shop; the first time I saw my grandson’s meeting ceremony was a bargain in a museum shop, and deceived people that it was a genuine product worth millions of dollars Antique; a pay phone booth was installed in the mansion specifically for visiting guests who need to make long-distance calls. It also provides a "careful" change exchange service... So when the grandson was kidnapped, he refused to pay the ransom completely at first. It is not difficult to imagine.
But it is this person who spent about 2.2 billion US dollars to buy countless art treasures (including Van Gogh’s masterpiece "Iris"), the quantity and value of which are so huge that they even constitute a museum, which is now a landmark of Los Angeles. One of the Getty Center.
In this sense, Old Getty is not the miser of the old Granny, what he cares about is not the money itself, but the value behind it. In his opinion, everything in the world can be measured with money, and he is also used to measuring everything with money. "All the MONEY in the World", this is a pun name, in addition to referring to the old Getty owning almost all the money in the world, it also implies that he treats everything in the world as money. It's just that he has a different value judging standard from ordinary people: the life of a grandson is not comparable to the value of a work of art. Because as he said in the movie, people's hearts will change, but the value of art is permanent.
Therefore, in my eyes, he is not completely hateful. I even felt that Ridley Scott showed some sympathy in his portrayal of this character. In the first half of the movie, he did not hesitate to spend a considerable amount of space to show the reincarnation of the old Getty, who claimed to be the Emperor Hadrian of Rome, to show his looming affection for his grandson, and to show his understanding of being a rich man: it is an ordinary People in a completely different world.
One of the most exciting scenes of the movie is that the director made the audience think that Old Getty finally let go and flew to Italy to pay the ransom, only to find that he was just buying a painting with 1.5 million US dollars in cash. When he died in the last movie, he was holding the painting and passed away sadly. This is a sad ending in the eyes of ordinary people, but I clearly saw the understanding in Scott's lens.
In contrast, the description of the Italian gang in the movie forms a clever intertextual relationship with the Getty family. This kidnapping case is actually a confrontation between two empires, one based on family bonds and the other based on monetary benefits. Old Getty didn't care about the safety of his grandson. Instead, one of the kidnappers had a fatherly affection for the kidnapped little Paul. The most obvious intertextual relationship is that I watched the two money-counting scenes in which I was irritated and relieved. Getty is the mechanical operation of the bank employees, while the gangster is the wife and family together. Even the soundtrack is singing "Men" Without a woman, a child is nothing", the contrast is self-evident.
For Ridley Scott, "The World of Money" is at best just another Hollywood industrial assembly line movie, but the industrial maturity and director's aesthetics shown in it are still amazing enough. The film’s photographic texture is particularly fascinating, especially all the scenes that took place in the old Getty’s mansion. The lighting, composition, and tone of the scenes are so exquisite that it reminds me of the first time Dyke met Rachel in Blade Runner. That indoor scene.
Of course, this film is not without flaws, especially the role of Mark Wahlberg is really embarrassing and redundant. The rhythm of the film was a bit out of control at one time, but I still think this is a good film, one that allows you and Good movies that money and kinky pull in (or pull away) infinitely.
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