Always makes me think of Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. Just a grimy fucking capitalist ogre with no soul and no use for one.
Murderer logic used for all situations.
His only pleasure in life is "drinking your milkshake."
Strongarm response to everything, make everyone suffer for no reason because the whole world is just as soulless as you, everyone's your rival so fight them, and fight dirty, only to later gloat that you took it cleanly and won fair and square. A black pit where a human being should be.
If anyone has seen the TV show Deadwood that was on HBO years back, the character of George Hearst (played by the wonderful Gerald Mcrainey) is also very similar to this. I just happen to be rewatching it lately and Rockefeller brought Hearst to mind.
He was a real historical person (the father of William Randolph, the subject of Citizen Kane) and of course Deadwood adds fictional touches to him. But gosh, they do so well writing him & Mcrainey acting as him, in making him one of the most putrid, selfish, bullying and unlikable people ever to grace moving pictures.
A thoroughly awful man who treats people like bugs to step on for the simple reason that they are near his feet and that irks him.
And of course, it's all about the fucking money: the wealth and its main purpose to him is to crush and destroy whole groups of people and their ways of life with, beyond some bloviating ideas of 'progress' that only he can really see, and this ephemeral greater good he wants to believe himself to be enacting on the world.
Truly an enemy of humanity who only regards his true monstrous nature in glimmering moments, but never faces any emotional whiplash or accounting of himself over.
I get that notion of these type of men being the most base forms of the same bastards we face off against today: their thinking is completely the same as it was then, only now they've polished and gussied it up, with even more media and suits to insulate and hide their disgusting mindset and habits. Pff.
Check out George Hearst in Deadwood anyway if you want to really catch a whiff of what the men like Rockefeller were probably like. Worth your time.
Always makes me think of Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. Just a grimy fucking capitalist ogre with no soul and no use for one.
Murderer logic used for all situations.
His only pleasure in life is "drinking your milkshake."
Strongarm response to everything, make everyone suffer for no reason because the whole world is just as soulless as you, everyone's your rival so fight them, and fight dirty, only to later gloat that you took it cleanly and won fair and square. A black pit where a human being should be.
If anyone has seen the TV show Deadwood that was on HBO years back, the character of George Hearst (played by the wonderful Gerald Mcrainey) is also very similar to this. I just happen to be rewatching it lately and Rockefeller brought Hearst to mind.
He was a real historical person (the father of William Randolph, the subject of Citizen Kane) and of course Deadwood adds fictional touches to him. But gosh, they do so well writing him & Mcrainey acting as him, in making him one of the most putrid, selfish, bullying and unlikable people ever to grace moving pictures.
A thoroughly awful man who treats people like bugs to step on for the simple reason that they are near his feet and that irks him.
And of course, it's all about the fucking money: the wealth and its main purpose to him is to crush and destroy whole groups of people and their ways of life with, beyond some bloviating ideas of 'progress' that only he can really see, and this ephemeral greater good he wants to believe himself to be enacting on the world.
Truly an enemy of humanity who only regards his true monstrous nature in glimmering moments, but never faces any emotional whiplash or accounting of himself over.
I get that notion of these type of men being the most base forms of the same bastards we face off against today: their thinking is completely the same as it was then, only now they've polished and gussied it up, with even more media and suits to insulate and hide their disgusting mindset and habits. Pff.
Check out George Hearst in Deadwood anyway if you want to really catch a whiff of what the men like Rockefeller were probably like. Worth your time.