When it came to his beloved grandson’s kidnapping, Getty was a real Scrooge (ironically, Plummer played Ebenezer Scrooge himself in the meta-adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” “The Man Who Invented Christmas,” this fall). And yet, it is his miserliness that defines him.
Through this event, we come to understand the psychology of the man, a visionary oil billionaire for whom money becomes more plentiful than air. The film is a bold stylistic project from Scott, a faded, sepia-toned snapshot of a heady moment in time a whirlwind of frenzied activity detailing the life and legend of John Paul Getty, through the lens of this ugly incident. But “All The Money In The World” deserves to be appraised on its own.
The seamless final product is astonishing for that fact alone. The legendarily fast Scott reshot every one of Spacey’s scenes as curmudgeonly oil billionaire John Paul Getty with Christopher Plummer in the role, and pulled it off - from production to post - in only a matter of weeks. When Kevin Spacey went down in the Great Hollywood Sexual Assault Reckoning of 2017, director Scott was not about to let his film go down too as collateral damage. It may be unfair that the story of “All the Money in the World” - Ridley Scott’s film about the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III - has been hijacked by the last-minute replacement of one of the film’s most important supporting players.
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