为什么HBO的“伊坎：不安的亿万富翁”没有提及唐纳德·特朗普的金融家的工作
Why HBO’s ‘Icahn: The Restless Billionaire’ Doesn’t Mention the Financier’s Work for Donald Trump
早在1980年代中期，奥利弗·斯通（Oliver Stone）与著名的金融家卡尔·伊坎（Carl Icahn）会面，讲述了一部名为“华尔街”的电影。会议为导演提供了电影的反派戈登·格科（Gordon Gekko）的许多灵感。斯通谈到了HBO纪录片“伊坎：不安的亿万富翁”中的会议，并于2月15日首次亮相。盖茨（Gates）和商业记者包括安德鲁·罗斯·索金（Andrew Ross Sorkin）（纽约时报），卡拉·伦巴多（Cara Lombardo）（《华尔街日报》）和拉娜·福鲁哈尔（Rana Foroohar）（《金融时报》（Financial Times））还帮助董事布鲁斯·戴维·戴维（Bruce David Klein）拆除了许多八十年代亿万富翁传奇的商业贸易。公司交易包括1980年代伊坎（Icahn）对TWA的收购，他的2013年对苹果的备受瞩目的投资，股票上涨了170亿美元，他同年与比尔·阿克曼（Bill Ackman）的公开斗争，以及他在1988年德克萨斯州的角色ACO破产。该文档还照亮了人类对Icahn的灯光 - 一个两极分化的角色，被广泛称为残酷的公司Raider。各种各样的变化与克莱因说服说服伊卡恩成为文档的主题将亿万富翁与唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的关系留在剪裁室的地板上。为什么现在关于卡尔·伊坎（Carl Icahn）的电影？人们知道卡尔（Carl）是一位千万富翁，他很成功，他很担心，他是一位伟大的谈判者，但我想要探索他的独特化妆和极端复杂性的真正是什么，使他能够超越金融界最好的最好。关于为什么现在？当然，冬季的狮子是一个有趣的主题。一个以他的爆炸能量和躁动而闻名的人会发生什么，当他八十多岁时，他会发生什么？您不仅可以接触伊坎，而且可以接触他的家人。他允许将您送入他的房子拍摄个人时刻。您是如何获得他的信任的？很多，我们可以说，哈迪辩论。卡尔喜欢辩论，有趣的是，他并不是真正的“我的方式或高速公路”类型的人。他实际上很喜欢来回。他喜欢长时间的电话，很长的会议，他问一百万和一个问题。从一开始，他就对讲述业务的故事以及对交易，谈判和策略的细微差别感到非常感兴趣。因此，当我与他谈论这件事时，他肯定是在倾斜。当涉及捕捉他一生的个人方面时，这花了一会儿才能使他感到舒适。他并没有真正观看纪录片，因此要向他解释观看纪录片的人们对个人（主题）的个人方面感兴趣是一个挑战。他们想知道您每天踢回去时的样子。DIDICAHN充当制片人或最终切割？不。他不是制片人。这是一个笨蛋ED百分比HBO电影。这是一部HBO资助的电影。但是他看过这部电影。他没有要求你把任何东西拿出来吗？不。我的意思是，我认为他会喜欢我删除一些更具启发性的个人场景，但显然仍然在电影中。对于外行来说是可以理解的。这是编辑中的一个困难部分吗？您可以在电影中涵盖的每一项财务交易以及他们如何将这笔交易结合在一起。但是，我试图处理卡尔的每项非常复杂的交易是要在交易中占据一两个基本时刻，以揭示卡尔的性格。我努力工作，以确保观众了解卡尔的赌注和危险。伊坎不仅在2016年总统大选中认可特朗普，他还同意担任前总统的特别顾问，讨论与监管改革有关的问题。为什么伊坎（Icahn）与Trejbal和Trump的关系不融入Doc？这个问题是在两小时的电影中，与了解谁是卡尔·伊卡（Carl Icahn）是什么相关的？与他的第一任妻子在一起 - 您知道他已经幸福地结婚了20多年，盖尔（Gail），这似乎很重要。这并不是他的传记。这更多的是对某人的哲学的探索。就特朗普而言，我的感觉是在调查它之后，他与特朗普的关系是如此的切线，在他的生活中对他来说并不重要。因此，我真的没有觉得那里有很多故事，坦率地说，有些人可能会说这部电影是给卡尔·伊卡恩（Carl Icahn）的情书。您的回应是什么？我对卡尔的哲学真的很感兴趣，而且我认为我展示了他的哲学，包括职业和骗子，以便观众可以对他下定决心。”伊坎：不安的亿万富翁”在晚上9点首次亮相。2月15日在HBO上。
Back in the mid-1980’s, Oliver Stone met with famed financier Carl Icahn about a movie he was writing called “Wall Street.” The meeting provided the director with much of the inspiration for the film’s villain Gordon Gekko. Stone speaks about the meeting in HBO’s documentary “Icahn: The Restless Billionaire,” debuting on Feb. 15. Along with Stone, the 100-minute docu features interviews with Icahn, his wife Gail and children Brett and Michelle.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and business journalists including Andrew Ross Sorkin (New York Times), Cara Lombardo (The Wall Street Journal) and Rana Foroohar (Financial Times) also help director Bruce David Klein unpack many of the octogenarian billionaire’s legendary business dealings. Corporate deals that include Icahn’s takeover of TWA in the 1980s, his 2013 high-profile investment in Apple, which provoked a stock rise of $17 billion dollars, his public battle with Bill Ackman over Herbalife that same year, and his role in the 1988 Texaco bankruptcy.
The docu also shines a human light on Icahn – a polarizing character who is widely known as ruthless corporate raider.
Variety spoke to Klein about convincing Icahn to be the subject of a docu, making complicated financial terminology understandable and why the director decided to leave the billionaire’s relationship with Donald Trump on the cutting room floor.
Why a film about Carl Icahn now?
People know that Carl is a multi-billionaire and that he's successful and that he's feared and that he is a great negotiator, but I wanted to explore what is it really about his unique makeup and his extreme complexity that allows him to surpass the best of the best in the financial world. In terms of why now? Certainly, the lion in winter is an interesting theme. What happens to somebody who is known for his explosive energy and restlessness and what happens to him when he's in his mid-eighties?
You had access to not only Icahn but his family members. He allowed you into his house to film personal moments. How did you gain his trust?
Lots of, shall we say, hardy debate. Carl loves to debate and interestingly he's not really a “my way or the highway” type of guy. He actually enjoys the back and forth. He enjoys long phone calls, long meetings, and he asks a million and one questions. From the beginning, he was fairly gung ho about telling the stories of business and very interested in the nuances of the deals, negotiations, and strategies. So, when I talked to him about that, he was definitely leaning in. When it came to capturing the personal aspects of his life, that took a little while for him to get comfortable with. He doesn't really watch documentaries, so it was challenging to explain to him that people who watch documentaries are interested in the personal side of (the subject). They want to know what you are like every day when you kick back.
Did Icahn serve as a producer or have final cut?
No. He was not a producer. This is a hundred percent an HBO film. It's an HBO-financed film. But he has seen the film.
And he didn't ask you to take anything out?
No. I mean, I think he would've loved for me to delete some of the personal scenes that are a little more revealing, but those are obviously still in the film.
In the doc there is a lot of financial jargon that you unpack and make understandable for the layman. Was that a difficult part of the edit?
You could go so deep into every one of the financial deals that we cover in the film in terms of their financing and about how they put the deal together. But what I tried to do with each of Carl’s very complex deals is to take one or two essential moments in the deal that reveals Carl’s character. I worked hard to make sure the audience understood what the stakes were and what was at stake for Carl.
There is no mention of Icahn’ first wife, Liba Trejbal, or his relationship with Donald Trump. Icahn not only endorsed Trump in the 2016 Presidential election, he also agreed to serve as a special advisor to the former president on issues relating to regulatory reform. Why didn’t Icahn’s relationships with Trejbal and Trump make it into the doc?
The question is, in a two-hour film, what is relevant to understanding who Carl Icahn is? With his first wife -- you know he’s been happily married for 20 plus years to Gail so that’s the relationship that seemed important. This is not really a biography of him. It's more of a probing of someone's philosophy. In terms of Trump, my feeling was after investigating it, his relationship to Trump was so tangential and really not important in his life to him. So, I didn't really feel that there was much of a story there, quite frankly.
By leaving that out, some may say this film is a love letter to Carl Icahn. What would be your response?
I was really interested in Carl’s philosophies, and I think I show sides of his philosophies, both pro and con, so that audiences can make up their own minds about him.
"Icahn: The Restless Billionaire" debuts at 9 p.m. Feb. 15 on HBO.
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