{"id":8289,"date":"2020-03-06T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2020-03-06T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:45:40","slug":"review-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8289","title":{"rendered":"Review: GREED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/greed1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8411\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7810\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGreed\u201d is an ironically shallow satire about shallow people. The film&#8217;s uneven tone undercuts the biting satirical elements. This is a movie meant to raise awareness, but the apparent message is too blunt to be effective.<br><br>The collaboration of prolific director Michael Winterbottom and actor Steve Coogan has produced memorable cinema over the years. Back in 2002, the two worked together on the fun and insightful \u201c24 Hour Party People.\u201d More recently, their combined efforts struck gold with \u201cThe Trip\u201d series, the latest of which, \u201cThe Trip to Greece,\u201d is scheduled to be released later this year.<br><br>\u201cGreed\u201d has Coogan stepping in for Sasha Baron Cohen on this project to play Sir Richard McCreadie. A ruthless billionaire, McCreadie has been dubbed \u201cGreedy McCreadie,\u201d as his rise in the fast-fashion industry was mostly on the back of underpaid Third World workers. And after years of making his distinctive and divisive mark in the business world, McCreadie decides to throw himself an expensive 60th birthday party on the Greek island Mykonos.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-8414 size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/greed4-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8414\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>Steve Coogan steps in for Sacha Baron Cohen to play Greedy McCreadie.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The party&#8217;s modeled after his favorite movie, 2000\u2019s \u201cGladiator.\u201d He has a coliseum built, the partiers are to adopt period dress (he will look like an emperor), and the \u201chelp\u201d will be slaves. Oh, and he\u2019s even flown in an actual lion to put the authentic edge on the gladiator games.<br><br>Part of the preparations for the part involves his personal biographer, Nick (\u201cPeep Show\u2019s\u201d David Mitchell), to visit with people from his past and collect birthday wishes on video. Nick learns about the man he\u2019s writing about in the process. These recollections provide a chance for the viewer to learn about Greedy McCreadie, as well.<br><br>Read the rest of Jonathan&#8217;s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/03\/06\/greed-uneven-satire-is-an-interesting-miss\/\">https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/03\/06\/greed-uneven-satire-is-an-interesting-miss\/<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uneven satire is an interesting miss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[213,1364,412,1352,1211],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-michael-winterbottom","tag-satire","tag-social-commentary","tag-steve-coogan","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8291,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}