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Eric Goode’s Monkey Business
How a former nightclub impresario and reptile enthusiast became one of the most successful documentary filmmakers of our time.
Then it became something completely different when Oklahoma zookeeper Joe Exotic, whom Goode had been filming for five years, solicited an undercover FBI agent to murder his nemesis, Carole Baskin, who, the show alleges but never proves, may have killed her former husband and fed his body to tigers. But I know enough about animals to connect with them.” “Eric is an insider, an intense and obsessive herpetologist,” says director Josh Safdie, whom Goode once hired, along with his brother, Benny, to make PSAs for the Turtle Conservancy back when they were just unknown jobbers. For the past decade, he’s been investigating other animal subcultures, interviewing such personalities as Ojai taxidermist Chuck Testa, Miami deep-sea fisher Mark “the Shark” Quartiano, South African rhino breeder John Hume, and former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, who now runs a parrot sanctuary in Nevada.
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