Unusually, the story is very different: the direct kidnapping in the movie starring Christopher Plummer is a fake kidnapping in a series of movies starring donald sutherland.
Which is closer to the truth?
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Fact is a complicated word, isn't it? Simon beaufoy, the creator and author of Trust, asked in an interview. But he said he was confident in his source. He paid special attention to the tragic life of the kidnapped: paul getty III. During this tragic life, reporter charles fox had extensive communication with the young Getty and other family members. According to his report in the 1970s and other materials,
Obviously, he actually kidnapped himself, "Bofoy told a reporter of the Television Critics Association earlier this year.
This is a strange concept, but strange things are common in Getty's house. In the original episode, the radiant patriarch brought a lion into the mansion purely for entertainment.
"This is a false scam," Bofoy said of the kidnapping plan. Young Getty owes money to some people in Rome. Like all the Getty families, they are multimillionaires, but they have no money to drink because they have no cash. He owed a debt, a big debt, but he was unable to pay it back. Bofoy said, "He thinks the only thing he can use is Getty's name. He said, "So he made up a kidnapping plot. "
He did it for "some of the meanest people in the world", which was a big mistake. Getty was sold to the mafia in southern Italy-"a large group of decent people."
Although he controlled his kidnapping at first, when the mafia took over, "he obviously had no control over anything".
The evidence appeared in perhaps the most famous ear-breaking incident since Van Gogh-four months after the kidnapping, Getty III's right ear appeared in the mail. By then, the original request of $6.5438+07 million (calculated in today's dollars, this figure will be close to $6.5438+00 billion) has been reduced to $3.2 million (close to $6.5438+08 million), and it is promised that if the payment is not made within 65438+00 days, the other ear will become the next one. "In other words," the blackmail letter said, "he will arrive bit by bit."
The father named Paul J. paul getty Jr. obtained a ransom of $2.9 million through negotiation and demanded the return of his son. But from beginning to end, the richer grandfather paul getty refused to consider paying. This eccentric patriarch lives in a huge English mansion, and he is famous for his meanness; He insisted that tenants use pay phones when they visited. But he didn't pay the ransom because he was a bitch. He said that he was worried that if he gave in, every one of his 13 grandchildren would be the target of kidnapping.
"I think the magic of John paul getty Sr is that he didn't obey anyone's rules," said Beaufoy, whose previous plays include Full Moon, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. "So in the1970s, in Britain where social norms were very conservative, he had five women living with him. He has a harem, a public telephone, many Elizabethan things, and a pet lion. Why not? For me, characters who don't want to play social games are so charming.
Bofoy said that there is still a lack of compassion, because old paul getty is totally dependent on logic. "People always say,' Oh, he is really a good man, even the very rich people are wrong. For us, there are some fortresses, you know, in Sutton Square, in Elizabethan buildings.