Born Rich by Jamie Johnson
I have been searching for this video for a while, since I first heard about Jamie Johnson when he was promoting a more current project of his called The One Percent.
This video is called Born Rich and it is a documentary about Johnson’s life being the great great grandson of the man who founded Johnson & Johnson. In this film he decides he is going to break the family taboo and actually talk about what it means to inherit or be born into large amounts of money.
The film ends up being an insider’s view on the kids of some of the wealthiest families in the world and if, like me, you are intrigued by money and its effect on people, then you’ll find this film very fascinating. The style is very down to earth, even amateurish, which gives it more impact.
There are many great scenes, but one of my favorite is Ivanka Trump giving Jamie a tour of her childhood bedroom with its 90210 fan posters on the wall and then panning to the shockingly amazing view out the window showing an intimate gaze over Central Park from the 67th floor of the Trump Tower.
It’s almost feature length, so make some popcorn, relax and enjoy. Also, the nice thing about Google Video is that you can go and download the video and play it off-line.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7457140802142500840
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Comments ( 4 )
Jennifer added these pithy words on Mar 29 07 at 5:37 pmI agree with you, this is a great movie. I saw it back on HBO when they were playing it non-stop for a month. It is truly an inside look that you don’t get often.
Nneka added these pithy words on Mar 30 07 at 6:13 amInteresting indeed. Like Jennifer, I saw it on HBO when they were playing it. I think the most interesting guy was the one from Europe who said he doesn’t understand why people ask you, “What do you do?” as an opening line to conversation.
I found it most intriguing that there are tons of middle class kids that act just like the 1%, so money doesn’t seem to have much to do with it. I think it’s a cultural thing.
Cheers,
Nneka
bt added these pithy words on Apr 27 07 at 3:28 pmThis was a really great movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was really struck by how lost a lot of the kids seemed. And how human. I thought the filmmaker did a great job of showing humanity behind the money.
So weird how the parents were so uncomfortable with how to handle the situation. At least the filmmaker’s father was open to exploring that, rather than just shutting down.
Thanks for sharing that.
Glenn W. Murphy added these pithy words on Dec 21 09 at 11:42 amJamie painted the picture of a lot of the kids I grew-up with in Pebble Beach and Carmel in the sixties and early seventies. His portrait was a walk down memory lane that recalled being the middle class kid hanging with the inherited rich, and the issues they dealt with constantly but the outside world never saw.
I would not have traded my life for any one of theirs, though the attraction of the freedom to travel at will and own one’s time completley is potent drink. Having lived a rugged, lower middle class life where I must fend for myself and family, I feel sharper and more versed at the “Skill At Arms Of Living” than most of my wealthy friends. My problems were common matters of survival, theirs were always deeper wounds of the heart that no amount of “hard work” could erase completely.
Having the “absolute freedon of wealth” (not true in the literal sense) is double-edged. I’ll take my problems to theirs any day.
I thank Jamie for doing an intelligent,eloquent, sensative job capturing what I always had trouble describing to working class friends throughout my later life, who had never ridden in the Ferraris, played golf at Pebble Beach, partied at Club IX, or raced cars at Laguna Secca on the money of wealthy friends.