Eat the Rich! Stories About the Wealthy, Explained

We’ve long been fascinated by stories about wealth and the wealthy, but lately it seems like that fascination has curdled into revulsion—even anger. From the recent crop of movies like Parasite, Knives Out, Hustlers, and Joker, to shows like Succession and Billions, class warfare is suddenly everywhere, feeding off a growing dissatisfaction with a world that revolves around the rich. Here’s our Take on the long and often fraught relationship we’ve had with wealth onscreen and why lately, it seems like the revolution has begun. If you like this video, subscribe to our channel or support us on Patreon:   / thetake  

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A Fool and His Money (1912)
A Simple Favor (2018)
American Psycho (2000)
Arthur (1981)
Batman Begins (2005)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Batman (1989)
Big Little Lies (2017-)
Billions (2016-)
BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Brewster's Millions (1945)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Clueless (1995)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Downton Abbey (2019)
Downton Abbey (2010-2015)
Eat the Rich (1987)
Empire (2015-)
Entourage (2015)
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Gotham (2014-2019)
Hamlet (1996)
Hustlers (2019)
Iron Man (2008)
Joker (2019)
Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007-)
Knives Out (2019)
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
Look Back in Anger (1959)
MTV Cribs (2000-)
Parasite (2019)
Ready or Not (2019)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Shahs of Sunset (2012-)
Scrooged (1988)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Snowpiercer (2020-)
Society (1989)
Succession (2018-)
Superman: The Movie (1978)
The Avengers (2012)
The Big Short (2015)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The Laundromat (2019)
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2010-)
The Simpsons (1989-)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Us (2019)
Viridiana (1961)
Wall Street (1987)