Enron quotes Flashcards
Prologue: ‘three blind mice’
‘perhaps one…
…turns and seems to stare at us’-stage directions
How tf does something blind stare?
Prologue: ‘businesses fail, marriages…
…break down and men jump to their deaths’- lawyer
Prologue: ‘Within every great…
…man there’s a buried risk’- lawyer
Prologue: ‘as a lawyer…
…I choose my words carefully’-lawyer
Prologue: ‘but we’re gonna put it together…
…and sell it to you as the truth’- lawyer
Act 1 Scene 1: Claudia Roe-‘she brings the PARTY with her. She…
…sticks close to the most powerful man in the room’- stage directions
Act 1 Scene 1: ‘Fastow is…
…on the outskirts of the group of employees’- stage directions
Act 1 Scene 1: ‘have i met the…
… mark to market guy yet?’- Lay
Act 1 Scene 1: Skilling ‘He’s a bespectacled, overweight, balding accountant…
He takes a deep breath.’- stage directions
Act 1 Scene 1: skilling ‘finds himself…
…a drink for confidence.’
Act 1 Scene 1: ‘I believe i may have seen her in Vogue’- Skilling, what was Claudia’s response?
…That was cropped from a profile in Forbes’
Act 1 Scene 1: ‘number fourteen’- Lay
‘I think one of her (Oprah’s) dogs…
…was at number twelve’- Skilling
Act 1 Scene 1: ‘It doesn’t kill you?…
…Everyone standing around celebrating their ignorance-‘-Skilling
Act 1 Scene 1: ‘Right…
…This guy gets it.’- Skilling
Act 1 Scene 2: ‘Skilling and Roe finish…
…having clothed, quick sex.’- stage directions
Act 1 Scene 3: ‘I never told…
…anybody to lie.’- Bill Clinton interview
foreshadowing to court scene
Act 1 Scene 2: ‘I’m sorrry I thought…
…I was the only woman in the room.’- Roe about Skilling
Act 1 Scene 2: ‘if you’re smarter…
…You’re supposed to walk around like you’re ashamed by it’- Skilling to Roe
Act 1 Scene 2: ‘Do I need…
…to feel guilty?’- Roe to Skilling
Act 1 Scene 2: ‘every extraordinary thing that’s ever happened…
…was concieved by a man alone in a room at four in the morning’- Skilling to Roe
‘Oh really? I think most acts of depravity too.’- Roe to skilling
Act 1 Scene 2: ‘If you’re going…
…to be a high school girl about it’- Roe to skilling
Act 1 Scene 3: ‘The OJ simpson trial-…
…and other distracting and comprehensible news items’
-stage directions
-brechtian theatre?
Act 1 Scene 3: before he talks…
…over me her i wanna say-‘
-Roe to Lay
-shows Roe is self-aware of the sexism she faces as a woman in the office
-ironic
Act 1 Scene 3: what were…
…YOU gonna say, Claudia?’
-Lay to Roe
-playing field only leveled because male superior prefers Roe, shows her methods of using sexism against others works
Act 1 scene 3: ‘I’m sorry I thought…
…I was the only woman in the room’
-Lay about Skilling’s idea to introduce wind farms
-weponised sexism
Act 1 Scene 3: ‘You were always my favourite…
….But im offering Jeff the job’
-Lay to Roe about her missing the job to Skilling
-shows unfairness of male dominated work place
Act 1 Scene 3: ‘In our daddy’s…
…day’
‘I am oil and pipelines’
-Lay to Skilling (and Roe ig) about becoming a trading company and working with stock
-physically comparing the old in Lay and the new in Skilling
Act 1 Scene 4: ‘the chaos, the…
…physicality, the aggression’
-stage directions for the trading floor
-aggressive and primal
Act 1 Scene 4: ‘Any Wall street Bank’d…
…push him off the roof and check his teeth for gold’
-trader 5 remarking on how likeable skilling is in such a cut-throat industry
Act 1 Scene 4: ‘I’m here on…
…behalf of Jeffrey Skilling’
Act 1 Scene 4: ‘I don’t have time…
…for you to be whoever the fuck you are!’
-Fastow to a trader
-Reminiscent of how Wagner thinks he can speak down on the scholars because he works for Faustus
Act 1 Scene 4: ‘Is it just me or…
…did that guy just come in here and say, tell me how to sell electricity’
-Trader 3 about Fastow
-Fastow is reasonably intelligent but lacks the likeability to manipulate people into believing in him like Skilling does
Act 1 Scene 4: ‘closest thing there is to hunting…
….Closest thing there is to sex. for a man, that is’
-Trader 1 to audience
-placing sex and hunting together specifically for men is telling of the nature of the traders and their business
Act 1 Scene 5: ‘Dawkins-the selfish gene’
‘Darwinian principles’
-Skilling telling Fastow to read this instead of a business book
-about if people are born with the insight and ability to step on heads to reach their goals
-multiple references from Skilling about evolution’
Act 1 Scene 5: ‘What did you say?’-
-‘I’m sorry I fucked up electricity!’
-‘I can’t hear you’
-Skilling to Fastow
-despite this being a masculine environment and women often being viewed as the dramatic/emotional ones. Skilling is being overly emotional when he knows he isn’t going to fire Fastow anyway
-show how men don’t get perceived as emotional because aggressive male anger isn’t perceived as an emotion
Act 1 Scene 7: ‘You’ve got more class than that’-
‘I don’t’
-between Skilling and Roe
-Lay knows her methods aren’t particularly ‘classy’ but she needs them to stay at the top of the company
Act 1 Scene 7: ‘It’s having its…
…balls cut off’
‘I’m fighting to survive here’
-Roe to Skiling about her company being sold from under her
-using metaphors for losing her masculinity and dying together for losing her place of power
-the company is her life
Act 1 Scene 7: ‘Skank of America’
-what the traders call Roe’s part of Enron
Act 1 Scene 7: ‘You get a good deal?’-
-‘Makes so-so gesture and sound’
-Fastow and Skilling about the business deal he negotiated while his child was being born
-shows his disregard for his real family
Act 1 Scene 8: ‘Your…
…thirty seven years old.’
-Skilling points out how childish Fastow naming his business model after specifically jurrasic park raptors was
-the company and the law are an unserious game to them
Act 1 Scene 8: ‘As internet porn goes up…
…, divorce rates gonna go way down’
-Fastow to Skilling comparing business to marriage
-vulgar
-money ans sex are the main motivators of man as said by Skilling
Act 1 Scene 8: ‘tiny red…
…, glowing box’
-stage direction
-represents the core of Enron and all their lies
-light present at the back of all scenes after this one even if box itself isn’t
Act 2 Scene 1: ‘That’s one of the biggest investment banks in the world…
…You can’t talk to them that way!’
-Fastow to Skilling about the Lehman brothers
-shows how powerful the Lehman brothers are if vulgar Fastow tells off Skilling for misspeaking but also shows how powerful Enron has gotten that he can do it anyway
Act 2 Scene 1: ‘The conjoined figures…
…struggle to turn around in unison’
-stage directions
-shows how they cannot work together well, even just with them
-doomed from the start
Act 2 Scene 2: ‘who actually is…
…the most beautiful woman in the room…is irrelevant’
-Roe to the audience about how it doesn’t matter if she is the actual smartest or if Enron is actually failing as long as people believe something else using beauty analogy
Act 2 Scene 2: ‘If something’s brought before me…
…I have to act on it’
-Lay to Roe about why he has to fire her
-shows he only adresses her lying because it was put in his immediate attention
-shows he will ignore Skilling and Fastow lying because it isn’t immediatly in front of his eyes where he can see
Act 2 Scene 3: ‘Roe is having…
… a last cigarette’
-Stage directions
-death penalty last request reference
-losing her job= losing her life
-suicide rooftop parallels
Act 2 Scene 3: ‘I WANT…
…TO WORK HERE! This is where I work!’
-Roe to Skilling
-only emotional spot for Roe, genuinely cares about working at Enron specifically
Act 2 Scene 3: ‘I’m gonna go home…
…to my beautiful children. And I’m gonna sell every single one of my shares’
-Roe to Skilling
-what Skilling should have done
-loss of job allows her to embrace traditional femininity again
Act 2 Scene 3: repetition of the word…
…‘why’
-Skilling’s daughter
-why does he need more money? why does he want people to like him? all valid questions despite childish phrasing
Act 2 scene 6:Loopholes so big…
…you could fuck a fat chick through ‘em’
-Trader about the electricity market in Cali
-ater deregulation
-vulgar, shows traders as disgusting sexist men to give clear ‘bad guy’ (brechtian theatre?)
Act 2 Scene 6: ‘Another day…
…Another death’
-Reporter about the results of deregulation and traders buying up all the electricity stock when Enron couldn’t back it
real life concequences contrast make believe nature of the raptors and puppets and stage craft from prior scenes
-contrasts childing nicknames of traders (‘Richochet! Fat boy! Burn Out! Death Star’)
Act 2 Scene 7: ‘Why should we…
…respect ineptitude’
-Skilling to his lawyer
-ironic bc he expects respect when he is lying and Enron is crumbling
-part of ‘I hate’ monologueish part, shows Skilling is childish
Act 2 Scene 7: ‘There’s a sort of…
… ticking sound’
-Skilling to a security guard
-starting to show his guilt
-reference to a telltale heart
-knows he is in the wrong
Act 2 Scene 9: ‘just him and…
…his representation of his self-worth’
-stage directions about Skilling
-‘i am Enron’ could be pop culture reference to Ironman but links to how if Skilling is Enron and the stocks are his self worth then his self-worth has the powerv to destroy him
Act 2 Scene 10: ‘I’m not long Enron…
…but I’m long Jeff Skilling’
-Sloman to Skilling
-shows Skilling’s personal need for approval
Act 3 Scene 1: when is it?
same time as 9/11
-mirrors fall of Enron
-adds to drama
Act 3 Scene two/three: what is it set up like?
a game show
-still a game to them
-no longer working together, seperate teams
Act 3 Scene 2/3: ‘on this scale…
…I mean, on any scale
-Senator Judge to Skilling about the scandal
-slips up revealing government’s willingness to ignore crimes as long as they aren’t big enough to be in the public eye, like Lay did with Roe
