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Christian Bale confirmed to GQ that he stepped in on Amy Adams’ behalf when she clashed with director David O. Russell on the set of ‘American Hustle.’The primary historical event on which “Amsterdam” centers on is the so-called Business Plot, an alleged political conspiracy from 1933. News of the plot arose when retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler claimed that a group of wealthy businessmen had approached him with a plan to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In “Amsterdam,” that plot emerges midway through the film, although not all of it is portrayed with accuracy. Robert De Niro’s character, Gil Dillenbeck, is based on Butler and his role in the Business Plot. In fact, the two newsreels featuring Dillenbeck in the film are re-created from. A representative from the group who wanted to overthrow FDR did show up at Butler’s house with money to attempt to convince him to participate, as is shown in the film.
“There was a Business Plot, or Butler did allege a Business Plot,” Katz confirms. “And there is good reason to think that something was in the works. We don’t know how many people were involved. We don’t know if all the people who Butler ended up implicating were involved. Weirdly, the most accurate part of the movie was that there was a guy named Gerald C. MacGuire. They changed everybody’s name, except MacGuire’s, although they spelled it ‘Maguire.’ Gerald C.
“It’s just completely fake,” Katz says. “And it’s fake in a very telling way. First of all, clearly what Russell’s production designers saw was a documentary short that came out in 2017 calledwhich was found footage of Madison Square Garden in 1939. But that happened five or six years after Butler revealed the Business Plot. That’s where the production designers got the George Washington backdrop from. That’s where they got the people in Hitler youth-style uniforms.
The film eventually reveals that the plot was cooked up by a group of businessmen known as the Committee of the Five, which never existed. “There was no secret organization like that skulking around, assassinating people,” Katz notes, adding, “What the movie does is it creates this fake shadow cabal. I mean, it’s possible that somebody got murdered by somebody, but it’s not part of any kind of historical record.
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