How David Scarpa Turned Dysfunction Into Drama | 21

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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You know how some movies begin with the words “Inspired by True Events”? If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably asked yourself: What does that even mean? Today, we’re getting answers from our guest David Scarpa, who wrote the 2017 film “All the Money in the World” about Paul Getty’s kidnapping. He tells us how he transformed truth into drama, what accounts for the Getty family’s tragic dysfunction, and who he thinks is the real villain of this story.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. From Wundery, I'm Brooke Sifrin, and I'm Ereisha Skidmer Williams.
0:24.2	And this is even the rich.
0:26.8	If spending four episodes with the Getty family has taught me anything,
0:31.0	it's that inheriting a gigantic fortune is not all it's cracked up to be.
0:34.8	Yeah, I totally wouldn't want to inherit billions.
0:38.4	Even if it meant losing an ear?
0:40.0	I mean, if we can change an ear to Pinky To I'm totally in.
0:44.0	That's the Champagne.
0:47.5	Okay, Ereia, this week I've got a surprise for you.
0:51.0	We're going to the movies. I think theaters are still closed.
0:55.8	Okay not literally. I'm going to be talking to a screenwriter named David Scarpa.
1:00.4	He wrote the 2017 film about the Getty Kidnapping called All the Money in the World.
1:05.0	It stars Mark Wahlberg as Fletcher Chase, Michelle Williams as Gail, and Christopher Plummer
1:10.3	as Jay Paul Getty.
1:11.3	Hang on, wasn't this the movie they had to reshoot
1:14.1	at the last minute to cut out Kevin Spacey?
1:16.7	Check you out, Film Buff.
1:19.7	But my conversation with David isn't really about that.
1:22.6	It's about why the Getty family is so dysfunctional,
1:25.5	why Jay Paul Getty is pretty much straight out of Shakespeare,
1:29.1	and why the kidnappers aren't the real villains in this story.
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