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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
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"My version of The Godfather would open with a voice in the darkness saying, “I don’t believe in America. The American Dream is a once-beguiling fairy tale; show’s over, y’all.” But The Dream is still real to many people, and the violence that powerful private interests have done to it in the last century pains them like a kidney punch. Gonzo journalism pioneer Hunter S. Thompson was one of the wounded, and so is Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Darkside), the far more straight-laced director of the entertaining documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson. They share a proprietary sense of outrage over abuses of power they’ve witnessed in their times. For them, America’s Nixons, Enrons and Bush-Cheneys have desecrated the church, the front lawn. For all their passionate trouble-making, there’s no denying that Gibney and the late Thompson, two white males who came up through America’s hallowed institutions (Thompson through the "
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) documents the rise and fall of a natural gas and energy company once ranked most admired company in the United States of America. Executives got approval to implement “mark-to-market” accounting, which means—almost unbelievably—that once they had an idea, they could start claiming profits from it even though they had done nothing. As an example, Enron built a power plant in India where the locals could not afford the power, but Enron claimed huge profits for the great idea while the plant was actually shut down and lost over a billion dollars. As things get tough, the Chief Financial Officer creates dumby companies which allow Enron to hide its losses. The principal phoney company ea "
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