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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom on Their Fashion World Satire Greed

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The longtime collaborators have made a film about the ridiculous world of the super-rich— and the underpaid workers who made them that way.

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0:00.0

Hello and I can't welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award season podcast from Vanity Fair.

0:04.0

It's such an honor to present this next award.

0:07.0

And here on the nominees.

0:08.0

And the Oscar goes to.

0:11.0

And the Oscar goes to.

0:12.0

And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now.

0:17.0

You like me.

0:19.0

I'm the King of the World.

0:21.0

There's a mistake.

0:22.0

Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here by myself right now actually.

0:41.5

We are still in our post-O Oscar period of maybe taking a step back or two. We'll be back next week with everybody and a special guest to look at the year ahead. But first for this week's episode we're handing the whole thing over to

0:54.4

Mike Hogan who sat down in studio with Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom the

0:59.2

team behind the new film Greed which opens in theaters this week.

1:03.0

Mike saw it at Toronto which is as you may remember the same festival where many of us saw

1:08.1

parasite for the first time and what Mike has been saying

1:11.0

basically ever since then is that basically all the movies he saw Toronto were about class war and he says if parasite was the most triumphantly effective of those the most hilariously brutal was greed.

1:22.0

It's a movie in which Steve Coogan plays a fictional but somewhat a realistic version of a fashion mogul like sort of like someone who might own a H&M or a top shop type place, and it looks into his ridiculously luxurious over-the-top life,

1:38.0

and then also at the women in Sri Lanka who make the clothes on which he has made his fortune.

1:43.1

Mike's quote about it that he sent for me to share

1:45.5

says, I think it does a fantastic job of capturing

1:48.2

the vulgar absurdity of 21st century's super wealth

1:51.4

while raising some very important issues about

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