The Art of the Steal
Just finished seeing this and was blown away.
I'm not much of an arty-farty type, but what I liked is how this guy, Barnes, also wasn't much of an arty-farty type. Aside from building the largest, most valuable collection of art in the world, he squirreled it away into a small town and built a school around it and did everything he could to keep it away from the whole art establishment world.
Anyways, the movie is about the city of Philadelphia and the art goons trying to steal it all for themselves. Completely disregarding Barnes' Will for his collection to never be moved. It's absolute rape.
What I liked is how, in most movies, it's always the little guy with nothing that's the under dog you root for. Here though, this guy Barnes was pretty much the top dog and when he was alive confounded and insulted everyone in the Philadelphia art world. But after he dies and as the foundation goes through several directors, they just start stripping away his Will, bit by bit.
I don't want to spoil it anymore for anyone, but suffice to say it doesn't have a happy ending and evil wins.
It made me want to go outside and punch the Universe for allowing such an injustice.
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It's not so much the art as it is his Will and wishes can just be trashed after croaking.
Aww shit. There goes my legacy.
We become our words.
This gets me thinking about someone with no one left behind to care about their stuff and whether they could actually have their wishes manifested, or some right to them ex post muerte. With the earth belonging to the living and all.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
The wishes of the dead always - always - make way for the desires of the living, given enough time.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I am curious.
If there is a will and there is "stuff" to be dealt with then there is an executor. And that person is legally bound to follow the wishes of the deceased.
If there is not a will and there are no heirs then an attorney is generally assigned to deal with it. But with no will there are no wishes.
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-LaJessica
I caught the end of it and was busy doing other things while it was on but from what I did catch the people trying to gain control of the art collection, well their intentions were 
I really have to watch it all the way through though to have a better understanding.
Sounds interesting...can art stolen from a dead cranky guy really toy with the emotions?
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