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The presence of Bale, essentially inverting his role as the Armani-clad Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho”, should alert you to the full array of bad hair, supermarket clothes and clenched body language on display here. These are not your typical masters of the universe. When thwarted in their efforts to go public with the story to the Wall Street Journal, they bring in Brad Pitt, wearing a thick beard, as the retired trader Ben Rickert – a disenchanted guru, now living off the land, who gets them a seat at the big boys’ table.
Their response: sure we’ll take your money, kid.Ĭatching wind of the scheme is Mark Baum (Steve Carell), an angry rogue trader at Morgan Stanley who holds the big banks, his own included, in righteous contempt, plus two indie greenhorns, Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) and Charlie Geller (John Magaro), working out of their garage. “Greenspan’s wrong,” he announces calmly. A fund manager who sits in his office wearing a T-shirt and flip-flops, blasting thrash metal, Burry has taken a close look at the subprime mortgage market and decided to bet against the system. Nothing in the film rings quite as wickedly true as the laughter from the bankers at Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley when Michael Burry (Christian Bale) proposes his scheme.
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Adapted from Michael Lewis’s book about the motley band of outsider financiers who saw it coming, it is a giddy, rambunctious black comedy – a heist movie about the financial apocalypse. Adam McKay’s “The Big Short” tries a different tack. Chandor’s “Margin Call” (2011) added great actors and a ticking-clock time scheme while Ramin Bahrani’s excellent “99 Homes” (2015) focused on a single family which had been evicted. Charles Ferguson’s documentary “Inside Job” (2010) lanced the mortgage-backed-securities bubble with pinpoint accuracy J.C. Initially film-makers went for utmost gravity coupled with granular research. Hollywood has finally found the right tone to address the financial collapse of 2008.
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