despite the ads & previews, it wasn't a comedy. It was a mildly funny serious story. They added silly music in order to make it into something it wasn't, a comedy.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Max B. Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw the movie. A total bore. A chuckle every 20 minutes or so. > Seemed totally pointless to me. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Devine > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 3:45 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] "The Informant" movie > > no, the FBI was portrayed as mildly incompetent and thus as victims. > As a result the DoJ was portrayed the same way. One private attorney > was a total sleaze, but the others not. > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> > wrote: >> What about the FBI, separately the US Dept. of Justice, certain > attorneys >> and judges? Where they shown as criminals? >> >> >> On Sep 27, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Jim Devine wrote: >> >>> (spoiler alert) in the movie, both ADM and the movie's subject are >>> criminals. >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> > wrote: >>>> >>>> The movie "The Informant" is getting good play in the media -- as > a >>>> comedy. >>>> Starring Matt Damon. I have not seen the film. >>>> The crimes involved are those of ADM, its officers and its > price-fixing >>>> conspirators. >>>> This has been discussed on Pen-L in the past but because of the > success >>>> of >>>> the movie I want to flag it. NPR today had a long program on the > case >>>> but I >>>> only caught enough of it to arouse my ire. >>>> The book on which the movie of the same name, "The Informant," is > based >>>> turned the story of the crimes on its head and made the actual > informer >>>> the >>>> subject, instead of the crimnals, notably ADM and its executives. > In so >>>> doing, the author Kurt Eichenwald was able to whitewash the US > Department >>>> of >>>> Justice, big Washington lawyers, and the FBI. I wasn't surprised, > years >>>> later, when the same author tried in another book to whitewash Ken > Lay of >>>> Enron. Ken Lay was already too far gone when that book came out. >>>> Eichenwald was a reporter for the NY Times business section at > the time >>>> of >>>> the ADM & the later Enron scandals. Eichenwald had his own > scandal later >>>> and is no longer with the NY Times. >>>> There is another book, a much better book, on the multiple crimes >>>> involved, >>>> titled Rats In The Grain by James B. Lieber. Jaded as I am, there > are >>>> things in the Lieber book that still shocked me. >>>> Gene Coyle >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> pen-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own >>> way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pen-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > > > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
