*THE BIG SHORT* is STRESSFUL

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Original Movie: The Big Short

[axr]

The real-life person that Christian Bale is playing (Michael Burry) was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. I personally found Bale's performance to hit unnervingly close to home for me. An extremely well-deserved Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for him, and a great Adapted Screenplay win for the movie too!
I also recommend VICE from the same director where Christian Bale plays Dick Cheney too.

[X_Lander]

At the beginning you think the Big Short is a boring documentary movie, in the middle you think it's a comedy, when the credits roll you realize it's a horror movie.

[solace]

Ryan Goslings assistant was actually a guy on set that Ryan got along with really well. He wasn't originally in the script, but they had such good chemistry they gave him a part.

[myjfydq]

Margin Call - underrated movie from a bank's perspective, with fantastic acting.

[NThurkettle]

Before the crash, I was working for a private car service - I remember one day in the summer driving an attorney up to a big tower in downtown L.A. where she was meeting with auto executives. I'd overheard a lot of rich person conversations by then, but this was startling; the entire drive back to her office she was yelling into her phone. "They have no idea...They won't listen...they have NO IDEA HOW BAD IT'S GOING TO BE." Thought back on that a lot when it all started going to hell.

[otheirony]

God, I remember this era so well. I was a freshman in high school when the recession started and seeing whole streets of stores close down really freaked me out. My dad's business was in land development, so we were hit really hard that recession. If that time period taught me anything it's that anything and everything can be gone before you even realized you had it

[tylerbramhall]

Need more roles like this for Gosling. LOVE him in this

[Board]

There’s another finance movie that I never thought I’d watch, went into it blind. Pretty interesting.
“Margin Call”
About investment bank going bankrupt.

[whoarocket]

My wife is very selective about books she will read. Because she ALWAYS prefers to save time by watching something as a movie instead. So she will never read a book that might be made into a movie. That's why she almost exclusively reads nonfiction.

She was an economics major, so when this book came out, she was interested and thought there was no way this could be made into a movie, so she read it. It read like a textbook, so she was confident it was the right choice, and was shocked when someone found a way to adapt it into a very funny movie script.

I heard an interview with the script writers on NPR a while back where they talk about how the movie is intentionally split in half in two styles, where the first half is comedy and the second is tragedy.

My takeaway from what happened here is that it really is the ratings agencies that should have the most blame in this. We rely on auditors and rating agencies to be the backstop and tell the truth. A bank can say, "Here is a pile of... something. Put a value on it." When the rating agency is calling garbage gold, THEY are the ones lying and committing fraud.

[SneharthoDey]

One of the most rewatchable movies and spectacularly made, pretty underrated too.

[ill-eagle]

Now you have to follow up with Margin Call. Same topic, but a very different kind of film, with an excellent cast.

[becksimilian]

One of my favorite films, every performance is great. The editing is great. The storytelling is great.
10/10 from Adam McKay, he took his end credit animations from The Other Guys and made a masterpiece

[warrengday]

“Escape reality for a little bit” — Funny.
So glad you have watched this very rewatchable masterpiece.

[yuen_dennis]

One of my favorite films! Pair this with Margin Call and it'll give you all the entertainment you need about the financial crisis!

[matthehazard]

I know someone who worked on Wall Street during the '08 crash. He once told me 'wealth isn't made, it's transferred.' Unfortunately when it comes down to it, wealth is usually transferred from the poor to the rich.

[jonathanfoster]

Even though i never have understood anything that happens in this movie, i still love it every time i watch it lmao

[juandesalgado]

Gosling and Carell did a great job, but the work of Christian Bale in this movie was off-the-chart good for me.

[josuev]

Margin Call is a great movie showing a different perspective on this topic.

[davejay]

FINALLY! I’ve been waiting for a popular reactor to do this! Now it will start a chain reaction and reactors that copy this channel will watch it as well, then reactors that copy those channels will continue, until this movie is all over the radar of everyone…

…then again it took me two tries watching this movie to even understand how it all works, so it should yield some interesting results depending on who else all watches this.

[mitchellmelkin]

As to the use of the Phantom of the Opera, I suspect it was done to suggest going into the heart of financial darkness as represented by that Vegas conference. Kind of like hearing Darth Vader's unmistakable score when he enters a scene.

You mentioned the smaller roles and one that was set up to be visially symbolic was Melissa Leo's, in addition to being expertly acted. Karen Gillan's contribution, while very brief, was notable for well establishing a loathsome character.