![]() He focuses much of the film on Enron founder Kenneth Lay and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Skilling. While Gibney takes what happened seriously, he has also spoken frequently of his film as a black comedy. He plays chilling audiotapes of Enron traders casually asking their subsidiary California power plants to shut down.įor all the weight of its subject, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a fun, engaging film. Gibney uncovered Enron’s role in the California energy crisis. Think only Enron employees and shareholders suffered? Think again. Through testimonials from former Enron traders and videotapes of Enron’s shareholder meetings, Gibney paints a picture of a corporate culture gone awry. ![]() ![]() Enron Chief Financial Officer Andy Fastow created shadow companies to hide Enron’s debt. His film shows how, through a practice called “mark to market,” Enron declared profit estimates as actual profits, driving their stock prices higher. Gibney borrows the Enron slogan “Ask Why” and asks why Enron was able to fool so many people for so long, and why the company fell apart. ![]() Alex Gibney brings it all back in his new documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, based on the book by Fortune magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. The executives got rich while the employees and shareholders got the shaft. Remember Enron? You know, the big company that went belly-up.
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