Alex Gibney Seeks Truth
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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4.3 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alex Gibney is one of the most respected and prolific documentary filmmakers in history. His stories feature strong characters and a propulsive narrative that often exposes malfeasance or incompetency, and the victim is often the little guy or our highest ideals, like democracy. Gibney has made over 30 has made in the last two decades, including Taxi to the Dark Side, his 2008 film about the CIA’s use of torture for which he won an Oscar. Alex Gibney talks to Alec about his latest film, The Crime of the Century (HBO), which he wrote, directed, produced, and narrated, and which explores the crime and manipulation at the center of the nation’s opioid crisis. He also talks about inheriting his anti-authoritarian views, early lessons working with Scorcese, and what it was like to take on a legend like Sinatra.
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| 0:00.0 | Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm a social media influencer. |
| 0:05.0 | Busted while recovering from Brazilian butt lift surgery. |
| 0:08.0 | She was yelling at the police for like getting her butt tissue out of joy when they were |
| 0:12.0 | paying nothing. |
| 0:13.0 | She's got hundreds of victims. |
| 0:15.0 | To me, that's not a con artist that just is a straight-up predator, and she just keeps |
| 0:20.0 | getting away with it. |
| 0:21.0 | This person is a danger. |
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