In the end, we see a page or two, briefly, in the darkened background, in a scene with Madoff and his sidekick Frank Dipascali, played by Hank Azaria.The glorious, all-American fantasy land of Oz retains its power to charm despite a few questionable ideas. He was a former trader who had saved them because it was such an earth shattering event in the markets.
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By some miracle, I was able to find a guy in the midwest who had full copies of that entire week. A search of vintage newspaper dealers also turned up nothing.
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Because the WSJ archive had been destroyed in 9/11, there were no copies on file before that date. Orlie was able to send me a photo of part of the front page of one paper, but after a lot of digging, they weren't able to find anything. I explained the situation and asked if they could help. So I emailed my friendsOrlie Kraus and Daniel Smith at the WSJ.
Creating them from scratch wasn't possible. But the director wanted the actual papers for a scene where Bernie waves them and slaps them down on a desk. I had actually done illustration work for the WSJ around this time, so I was able to show them the tearsheets to give them an idea of what the paper looked like. This turned out to be the hardest task yet. I was also asked to produce copies of the Wall Street Journal from the Black Monday period - October 19, 1987. We never end up seeing it in the final film. Again, using bad photocopies included in the trial evidence, I put together an entire magazine - writing headlines, making up ads, and finding body copy that would read correctly in a close-up shot. I also had to make copies of an even more ephemeral publication - a little hedge fund industry magazine called Mar Hedge. I didn't have photos of him in the makeup to refer to, so I had to do his likeness by looking at photos of him and Madoff and trying to meld them. I also had to do the illustration of DeNiro as Madoff. We didn't know at the time how much of it would appear in the final edit, so it all had to look good. From that, I had to build an entire issue of the paper - charts, ads, articles, the works. I was able to find some bad photocopies of the cover and the first page of the article in the trial evidence.
I had to track down the original 2001 issue, which is how I learned that these types of periodicals are more ephemeral and less likely to survive than most. In addition to lots of research, I had to produce copies of magazines and newspapers, and various notes and paperwork, including Madoff's indictments.įor the copy of Barron's that we see, I had to reconstruct a version of an actual issue that called into question the seemingly impossible returns that Madoff's fund seemed to generate. I was asked to do a few things for this movie, which tells the story of Bernie Madoff's crimes.
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Graphic props for the HBO movie Wizard of Lies.
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