There Apparently Is a Petition Circulating Online to Add Three Words to the Definition of ‘Accountant’
Most of you guys probably use Webster’s Dictionary like I do for all your spelling and word definition needs. But just in case some of you use the Oxford English Dictionary, there’s a crusade underway in the U.K. to change how the word “accountant” is defined. Why? Because Xero U.K. thinks the Oxford English definition […]
Exposure Drafts: If you thought Ben Affleck was good as ‘The Accountant’…
This is a special edition of Greg Kyte’s Exposure Drafts to celebrate The Accountant and to encourage Hollywood to green light The Managing Partner. Exposure Drafts appears every other Wednesday. Send comments and suggestions to [email protected]
Let’s Obsess Over: The Accountant Trailer
We linked to The Accountant trailer on Friday but after receiving a few messages and seeing a bit of chatter on Twitter, it warrants a bit more conversation. First, I suppose we should watch it together: I'm looking forward to seeing the movie this fall but, seriously, isn't Ben Affleck a little hunky for this […]
Director of Drive Angry Convinced That Hell Is Run by an Accountant
The IRS’s favorite perpetual problem child, Nicolas Cage, has new movie, Drive Angry and it is quite the testosterony mishmash of explosions and gunfight sex (NSFW). The baddie in this particular film is played by William Fichtner whose face you probably recognize but had no idea what his name was. His character is simply known as “The Accountant” who, as far as we can tell, is a bag man of sorts for the Prince of Darkness.
Now – “The Accountant.” Why would a filmmaker soil your honorable profession by assigning a demon with that label? Is it a bad parental memory? Jaded by an unpleasant tax return experience? No, it’s simply the tendency of accountants to be run a tight ship and director of Drive Angrybe insanely anal:
We imagine Hell as probably as very well done. With all our experiences with bureaucracy we thought that, yeah [The Accountant] would sort of make sense. Bureaucracy can be really vicious and of course we need somebody who would have that attention to detail. Who made sure the checks and balances were met and that every single column lined up. And if it was that person that came after you, you would be majorly fucked. We talked about how you’d already seen the hunter from hell and we thought nah, it’s a guy in a suit. It’s a guy who looks like a lawyer, but isn’t. It’s a guy who looks at numbers and is indifferent to your plight. You can’t negotiate with him because to him it’s just about making sure everything adds up. If you’re against the books, then he will make sure to correct it.
Drive Angry director explains why Satan’s right-hand man is an accountant [io9]