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Some, he added, “any looter would be irresistibly drawn to.”

His friend "broke" at the sight, Enomoto said, and used a knife to attack the looter.

In recent years, Toek Tik, a reformed looter who said he had directed a ring that pillaged Khmer-era temples for two decades, came forward to identify areas of Cambodia where he helped to loot various antiquities.

Did Ted Sarandos see himself as some modern-day John Galt, summoning the already wildly successful to a cinematic version of Ayn Rand’s Galt’s Gulch where they could work free from restrictions and “looter” mentality while the rest of civilization collapsed?

In a 2021 interview with The Times, Toek Tik, a reformed looter who regretted his actions, said he had found and sold several of the items pictured in “Khmer Gold.”