Live Poll: Bad Rich People

@Peter_pbn 😀

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A Christmas Carol (1951)
Scrooge (original title)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/reference/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/ratings : 24K

Alastair Sim ... Ebenezer Scrooge

Stubbornly refusing to believe in Christmas 
and to be separated from his inexhaustible wealth, 
the Victorian money lender and parsimonious recluse, 
Ebenezer Scrooge, 
can't be bothered with the destitute 
during the most festive time of the year.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/mediaviewer/rm3018276609

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@Peter_pbn ,

I presume you will add the discussion link to your list when your poll suggestion is more mature.

For your consideration:

Wall Street (1987)

Gordon Gekko

An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Jordan Belfort

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

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The Dropout (2022)

Elizabeth Holmes

TV series that chronicles Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' attempt to revolutionize the healthcare industry after dropping out of college and starting a technology company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

Theranos Inc. (/ˈθɛr.ən.oʊs/) was an American privately held corporation[3] that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Founded in 2003 by then 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors, resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014. The company claimed that it had devised blood tests that required very small amounts of blood and that could be performed rapidly and accurately, all using compact automated devices which the company had developed. These claims were later proven to be false.[2][4][5]

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The Borgias (2011–2013)

Rodrigo Borgia

Cesare Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia

Cardinal Ascanio Sforza

In the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia

The House of Borgia (/ˈbɔːr(d)ʒə/ BOR-zhə, BOR-jə,[2][3][4] Italian: [ˈbɔrdʒa]; Spanish and Aragonese: Borja [ˈboɾxa]; Valencian: Borja [ˈbɔɾdʒa]) was an Italian-Aragonese Spanish noble family, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance.[5] They were from Valencia, the surname being a toponymic from the town of Borja, then in the Crown of Aragon, in Spain.

The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 15th and 16th centuries, producing two popes: Alfons de Borja, who ruled as Pope Callixtus III during 1455–1458, and Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia, as Pope Alexander VI, during 1492–1503.

Especially during the reign of Alexander VI, they were suspected of many crimes, including adultery, incest, simony, theft, bribery, and murder (especially murder by arsenic poisoning).[6] Because of their grasping for power, they made enemies of the Medici, the Sforza, and the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola, among others. They were also patrons of the arts who contributed to the development of Renaissance art.

FYC: Margin Call

Get Out (I) (2017)

The White Tiger (2021)

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/q1HSy7KzK0Q/

Congratulations Peter