Matt Damon as a complainant in a U.S. agribusiness great company in “The Informant” A black comedy based on a true story that had the audience laughing uproariously at the Venice Film Festival.
Damon had to put on 30 pounds, mustache and look exceptionally attractive to play Mark Whitacre, a guy goes for gold in companies Archer Daniels Midland FBI informant to discover the pricing practices in the industry.
“It was probably the most fun I’ve had time to work because I had to think:” I have to go to the gym after work, and basically ate everything I could see, “Damon told reporters Monday.
Dreams of becoming a national hero and upwards now, Whitacre agreed to use a cable and carrying a hidden tape recorder to give the FBI the evidence you need to incriminate his bosses.
But nothing is easy in the Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh, who has an absurd twist, as it quickly becomes clear that Whitacre is not as well-meaning and reliable as it may seem.
“If you are not accustomed to the lie that always journey itself, which makes it fun to play this guy because he never cheated. And even for a moment, then catches until someone finally says only,” said Damon.
Soderbergh, who worked with Damon in the trilogy, not “Ocean’s, is new to expose corruption and corporate greed.
“Erin Brockovich”, also based on a true story – I was about to take a single mother in a company of polluting the water in California, while “Traffic” – which won four Oscars looked to drug trafficking.
But in The Informant!, Located in midwestern United States in the 1990s and will premiere out of competition at Venice, clearly adopting a lighter approach.
The film, Soderbergh began work in 2001, could be seen as the not-so-veiled reference to recent U.S. corporate scandals, but said that what really brought the story was Whitacre strange personality – and reactions to their around.
“It takes two people to a lie for the job – you need the liar and someone who believes that … In this case, working for the lie that FBI agents have ignored so many signs that something is wrong because the case is so great, “he said.
Unlike previous films, Soderbergh Whitacre did not want to respond to real or any person involved in the story before filming The Informant!, Which is based on a book by Kurt Eichenwald.
“As we find that the film would be a comedy and a very subjective film … talking to real people, not going to help and can hurt me,” said Soderbergh.
“The strange thing is that Whitacre has seen the movie and said it was very accurate.”
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