{"id":200785,"date":"2021-03-12T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-operation-varsity-blues-the-college-admissions-scandal-engrossing\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:30:25","slug":"watch-operation-varsity-blues-the-college-admissions-scandal-engrossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-operation-varsity-blues-the-college-admissions-scandal-engrossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal&#8217;: Engrossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ae91aa8e22\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ae91aa8e22\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-operation-varsity-blues-the-college-admissions-scandal-engrossing\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Operation_Varsity_Blues_The_College_Admissions_Scandal_Engrossing%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal&#8217;: Engrossing&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-operation-varsity-blues-the-college-admissions-scandal-engrossing\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Operation_Varsity_Blues_The_College_Admissions_Scandal_Engrossing%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal&#8217;: Engrossing&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Operation_Varsity_Blues_The_College_Admissions_Scandal_Engrossing%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal&#8217;: Engrossing&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Operation_Varsity_Blues_The_College_Admissions_Scandal_Engrossing%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal&#8217;: Engrossing&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In criminal cases, wiret<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed phone conversations are commanding pieces of evidence (juries love them), and in documentaries about crime they tend to be some of the most gripping. We hear people as they really are. In \u201cAllen v. Farrow,\u201d the tapes of Woody Allen in phone conversations secretly recorded by Mia Farrow present an oily power side of him that has never been heard as openly. And in the bracing documentary \u201cOperation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal,\u201d we hear the high drama of wealthy parents on the phone with Rick Singer, the independent college counselor who orchestrated the massive scam that rocked the world of elite college admissions. It sent Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to jail \u2014 but that scurrilous saga of fallen celebrity was, in this case, just the tabloid tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Varsity Blues\u201d presents the whole iceberg, in an innovative and compelling way. The movie was directed by Chris Smith, who has made documentaries about a wide range of subjects, from Jim Carrey (\u201cJim and Andy: The Great Beyond\u201d) to the specter of global financial meltdown (\u201cCollapse\u201d) to the implosion of an infamous luxury music festival (\u201cFyre\u201d). He has virtually never directed a conventional, just-the-facts-ma\u2019am documentary, and though \u201cOperation Varsity Blues\u201d has all the facts, and lays them out with galvanizing clarity and precision, the innovative move Smith makes is to take FBI transcripts of wiretapped conversations and play them out, in real settings, with actors portraying the relevant people.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Modine, with ruddy skin and a helmet of thatchy gray hair cut into a monk\u2019s severe bangs, plays Singer, the methodical, hatchet-faced manipulator at the center of the scandal. About three-fifths of the movie <em>is<\/em> a straightforward documentary, with talking-head witnesses who knew Singer from his hometown of Sacramento, and we get a sense of the kind of man he was: dour, furtive, workaholic, with a sodden earnest surface that made him seem the furthest possible thing from a con artist. He looks like a joyless Richard Belzer, but at the time even that look was part of his mystique. A former client recalls, \u201cHe always dressed like he had just come from the basketball court. His idea was that what he was doing was coaching kids for getting into college, so therefore he dressed like a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the staged sections with Modine, it feels, at first, like we\u2019re watching a TV-movie. The difference is: Everything out of Singer\u2019s mouth is stuff he actually said, word for word. And so we get a close-up view of how the events unfolded, and of how the wealthy parents who were drawn into Singer\u2019s web contributed, knowingly, to the spinning of the web. They were co-conspirators in a hugely successful racket: the bribing of college athletic coaches and university administrators, all to guarantee admission.<\/p>\n<p>As Singer saw it, there were three ways to get into a college like Stanford or Yale or Georgetown: through the \u201cfront door,\u201d which means that you make it on your own merits; through the \u201cback door,\u201d which means that your parents make a donation of such magnitude (meaning tens of millions) that the college rolls out the red carpet; and the option that became the Singer specialty \u2014 the \u201cside door,\u201d which was based on parents ponying up sums in the range of $500,000 to $1 million (they would donate the money to Singer\u2019s Key Worldwide Foundation, so that it could be laundered as a charitable contribution), which then got passed on as bribes to sources within the college.<\/p>\n<p>But the money wasn\u2019t enough. Singer figured out how to pass off the student applicants as athletes, usually in classy niche sports like Crew, fencing, and horseback riding, because those sports were more under the radar. He would photoshop images of them playing water polo (or, in the case of Lori Loughlin\u2019s two daughters, take photographs of them on rowing machines), all to suggest to the admissions board that the students were athletes the colleges should covet. When they arrived at the school, the fact that they never spent one minute on those teams would just get buried. Singer also paid off proctors to fake the results of SAT tests. Part of the scam there, intriguingly, was the lengths to which he had to go to conceal the deception from the students who were taking the tests. In almost every case, the parents weren\u2019t just bribing the colleges \u2014 they were scamming their own kids.<\/p>\n<p>The nuts and bolts of how Singer\u2019s operation worked are clever and shameless, and the movie explains it all fairly quickly. The complicity of the parents, who in the re-enacted phone conversations are often visibly anxious about whether they\u2019re going to be found out (they have no idea their heads are on the chopping block as they speak), is the case\u2019s juiciest true-crime element.<\/p>\n<p>Yet what makes \u201cOperation Varsity Blues\u201d a movie of great value, one that does more than just color in the story behind the sordid headlines, is that it presents a searing and searching indictment of the commodification of college: the way our elite institutions of higher learning are now selling prestige to an increasingly hermetic club of vulgarly powerful American aristocrats. There are 3,000 colleges in the United States, and many of them are good, but the reason that more and more people are desperate to get into those 25 or 50 top-tier schools is because of their feeling that the system \u2014 the whole culture \u2014 is rigged. To gain access to an elite college is to purchase an aura, one that in theory never stops giving dividends. It\u2019s become aspirational in the way certain reality TV show are. And the fact that so many feel they need that aura, or life will shut them out, is a sign that the society is increasingly designed to squash all but a select few. 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