“That particular moment of exposing it all has gotta have some emotional turmoil to it,” he explained. For Levinson, it was essential to kick off the film in what was ostensibly the third act of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, one that became known as the biggest financial fraud ever committed in the United States. The film takes a similar stance, opening on Madoff on the cusp of being outed for his financial trickery, forcing himself to confess some portion of his crimes to his family before the FBI arrived. He can ask that question, but we can’t answer it. We don’t have to give him a clinical title to it. “No one can answer it,” the filmmaker said when asked about his take on Madoff’s mental state. “It’s unimportant. You think he’s gonna get to that point? You have to kick him out, throw him out kicking and screaming.”Įager to steer the conversation back to Madoff and their film at hand, Levinson took a more even-handed approach. “I don’t know if he’ll ever get to that point,” he said when asked about the possibility. Maybe one day we will know something through his own… maybe wanting to tell a story or being very honest about what he did.”īut De Niro isn’t holding out hope that Madoff will ever get to that point of self-revelation, another comparison he was eager to make to President Trump. “It’s a good thing in the story, the way we have it, he’s asking a question that nobody really knows. “Is a sociopath? I don’t know how someone can get to that point where he just doesn’t…” De Niro trailed off. Oscars 2023: Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris Are Already Eyeing an 'Entergalactic' Season 2ħ New Netflix Shows in October 2022 - and the Best Reasons to Watch The Producer of 'Wild' and 'Gone Girl' Gets Real About Telling Women's Stories: 'It Is Hard Every Time' (There’s little question that De Niro was telling the truth days earlier, he spent part of his acceptance speech for the prestigious Chaplin Award calling out the president’s “bullshit.”) “All I do is think of Donald Trump,” De Niro said when IndieWire sat down with the pair last week and asked for his takeaway of Madoff’s mental state.
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READ MORE: ‘The Wizard of Lies’ Review: Robert De Niro’s Canny HBO Movie is a Ponzi Scheme That Pays Off They’re hung up on something much more timely and urgent. And ultimately, neither De Niro nor Levinson are concerned with diagnoses or medical opinions.
Robert De Niro, as the baffled, wide-eyed Madoff, stuck in prison for a sentence he can never outlive, implores a visitor: “Do you think I’m a sociopath?”īy then, Madoff’s precise pathology doesn’t matter much he’s a bad man who did horrible things. The HBO original film “ The Wizard of Lies,” Barry Levinson’s insightful and sharp look inside the rise and fall (and fall and fall) of American fraudster Bernie Madoff, ends with a question.
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