Concert promoters and rapper Ja Rule advertise a high-end festival experience that fails spectacularly when they don't plan for the infrastructure to support the venue, artists and guests.Concert promoters and rapper Ja Rule advertise a high-end festival experience that fails spectacularly when they don't plan for the infrastructure to support the venue, artists and guests.Concert promoters and rapper Ja Rule advertise a high-end festival experience that fails spectacularly when they don't plan for the infrastructure to support the venue, artists and guests.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 nominations total
- Self - Billy McFarland's Girlfriend
- (as Anastasia Eremenko)
- Self - VP of Marketing, Magnises
- (archive footage)
The Netflix film is definitely a superior documentary, with broader coverage of the story, but this is worth watching for the interviews with McFarland himself, which Netflix doesn't have.
Unfortunately, it seems like in exchange for the interviews, they kind of soft pedal what a thoroughly loathsome human being McFarland is. Yes, the make it clear he lied to a lot of people, but you could still walk away from this thinking he's still a basically decent guy who just got in over his head. He's not. He's a pathological liar and a sociopath.
For example, they leave out the fact that he started a new ticket sales scam *while he was out on bail* for the Fyre fraud charges.
The biggest flaw in this documentary is they don't even mention the biggest victims of the scam; namely, all the Bahamians who worked round the clock to try to try to make this happen, and then didn't get paid.
Still, the main takeaway from both documentaries is just how easy it is to separate people from a *lot* of money if you're willing to lie with a straight face, and when i comes to that, there's really no substitute for letting McFarland tell the story in his own words.
- ejonconrad
- Jan 23, 2019
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBilly McFarland agreed to appear in the documentary on condition that he be paid.
- Quotes
Billy McFarland: I think it's really easy to play "Monday morning quarterback" for myself right now, looking back and saying, "I should've done this, should've done that," and I certainly made a lot of mistakes, there's no question about that. But, before we had the worst luck, we had the best luck. It sounds crazy, but so many things had to go right to make it this big of a failure.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 420 Awards - 2nd Annual Event (2020)
- How long is Fyre Fraud?Powered by Alexa
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- Файр-афера
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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- 16:9 HD