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December 08, 2005
Blogging Syriana: Gaghan goes for it
"My first blog.... I’m on a plane. I’m drinking bad coffee. I’m promoting a new film, Syriana, that I’ve spent the last three and half years writing and directing, cutting and scoring, agonizing as recently as three weeks ago over details like the font and point size of the end-title scroll - I chose Highway Gothic, considered in some circles to be the new Helvetica," muses Stephen Gaghan at Huffington Post.
"Since this is an inaugural blog and it’s clear skies at 37,000 feet, I thought I might write a brief primer on corruption," which the writer-director proceeds to do. "Corruption is the inducement of a government official to allocate state assets at a price below market value...
"As Tim Blake Nelson playing Danny Dalton, says in Syriana, “Corruption is just government intrusion into market efficiency in the form of regulation… that’s Milton Friedman, he got a goddamn Nobel Prize.”... Remember that if a culture can spring into existence on the banks of the Potomac that makes it seem perfectly okay to accepts multi-million dollar gifts from private business, that same culture can be changed, induced, if you will, to turn those gifts down and represent all of the people instead of a tiny, super-wealthy minority."
Posted by pride at December 8, 2005 05:40 PM
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