So it meant that Whitacre was just attention seeking driven and trying to understand what movie implied, Whitacre made everything up , including injecting the virus or whatnot ? It seemed that way, is it far from facts or is it truly the way it was ? Wiki doesnt show the same "legend" explanation as the movie does. Whats the true story ?
I read the 3 different books about Whitaker and the ADM scandal. It is a true story where Whitaker was both a whistleblower and stole from the stealers. ADM execs stole from their customers using price fixing and Whitaker in turn stole from them. Matt Damon is playing a mentally ill character in the movie, bipolar disorder. The books discussed in much more depth about how Whitaker was suffering from severe mental illness and tried to kill himself twice. He was delusional, according to the books. The FBI agents have done several TV interviews about the case which can be found on U-Tube, and one of the more recent ones is at following link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azoGqAme3Sc
well yes but isnt the movie try to show him as a guy who created all that scandals and it was just his deal (forged evidence and then tried to frame the company and still steal their money so that the company will go to jail and he will be a rich chairman)? For me it clearly looks like he created everything of it, and it was often just because of that he was attention seeking, the movie doesnt really show him as ill, just crazy
shareit seems to me that the movie shows him as a calculated, ambitious and greedy motherfxxker
I think it was more that he had an absurd amount of faith in his ability to fabricate falsehoods that would get him off the hook, rather than simply being driven by attention seeking behavior. He starting lying in the first place to cover up the underperformance of the lycene production. There was an element of delusional self-aggrandizement there, natural to all pathological liars, but initially it was to cover his butt because Andreas was on his case and he felt his career was in jeopardy. From there it just went waaay south.
Paranoia will destroya!
He lied a lot, but the one thing that he didn't make up was the price fixing the companies were doing amongst themselves. That was originally what the FBI were interested in.
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