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Originally Posted by SutterBrother
The Big Short (2015) Ryan Gosling, Steve Carrel, Christian Bale. It's funny... which is wierd because it's about the 2008 housing collapse. Feels a lot like Wolf of Wall Street. They were clever about how they explained the financials (Margot Robbie in a bubble bath). Moves quickly, but so much of it is about the characters.
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I loved
The Big Short, it's great. So many great scenes in it. I think my favourite is either the scene with Steve Carrell's 'Mark Baum' and Byron Mann's 'Mr. Chau' (the 'CDO Manager') having dinner at a Vegas casino,
CHAU: You okay?
BAUM: No. I actually feel pretty sick. So I'm going to leave.
CHAU: You think I'm a parasite, don't you Mr. Baum? But apparently society values me very much. In fact, let's do this: I'll tell you how much I'm worth, and you tell me how much you're worth.
BAUM: Gahd, you are an incredibly big piece of ####...
[walks over to his associates' table]
BAUM: Short everything that guy has touched. I want half a billion more swaps.
VENNETT: You sure about that? The collateral calls could bankrupt you.
BAUM: Yeah. Yup. [walks away, toward casino floor]
COLLINS: Where're you going?
BAUM: I am going to try to find moral redemption, at the roulette table.
or Baum's team travelling to Florida and talking to the mortgage brokers played by Billy Magnussen and Max Greenfield:
BAUM: I don't get it: why are they confessing?
MOSES: They're not confessing...
COLLINS: ... they're bragging.