“Greed” is evidently inspired by the life story of Sir Philip Green. Sir Philip may be more flattered than insulted by this scattershot satire
ONE OF THE most depressing moments at the Oscars ceremony on February 9th came when Chris Rock joked about Jeff Bezos, who was sitting in the audience, but could not come up with anything more cutting than: “He got divorced and he’s still the richest man in the world.” Mr Bezos must have been more flattered than insulted.
The latest film to take aim at a tycoon and miss by a mile is “Greed”, a rambling comedy written and directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring his frequent collaborator, Steve Coogan. Their scattershot satire is evidently inspired by the life story of Sir Philip Green, although the British chain-store mogul has been fictionalised as Sir Richard McCreadie.
It is not clear why the viewer should care about these inconveniences, and Mr Winterbottom does not appear to care about them himself.
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