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Lost-Aardvark-7182 t1_j6irp1n wrote

Good movie, the best part is where the risk manager says he used to be a civil engineer and designed a bridge that saved like billions of hours spent in traffic. What a guy

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armen89 t1_j6j0o10 wrote

Some people like the long way home.

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Lost-Aardvark-7182 t1_j6lu2sm wrote

I like how he said this in reference to the risk manager guy having taken the long way home just moments before they met. Probably thinking how to break the news to the wife

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TheMetabrandMan t1_j6n0h29 wrote

Give time for the wife’s boyfriends to get dressed. Thoughtful.

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NoMoassNeverWas t1_j6j7p2n wrote

My favorite scene is the trading morning, how they're selling everything off and the phone calls start out "Hell yeah I'll buy " to "you fuckin guys are selling me shit aren't you, why?"

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TKInstinct t1_j6jbsqy wrote

Stanley Tucci is one of those guys who's been in a million different things but you never remember his name. Which is a shame because he's never played a bad role IMO.

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hideous_coffee t1_j6jgdvk wrote

He had that travel show about Italy and that drilled his name into my head forever.

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wolf_9823 t1_j6k3tl5 wrote

The Tooch is the best! “Gird your loins!”

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hjugm t1_j6izo93 wrote

Jeremy irons masterclass in acting. He stole the show with the boardroom scene.

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TheMetabrandMan t1_j6n18e3 wrote

Fun fact:

Apparently, Sir Ben Kingsley was supposed to play the role of John Tuld but he had other projects at the time. So, it was offered to Jeremy Irons and he said yes 🙃

Glad he got it.

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MakeAUTurn t1_j6kj5al wrote

A subtle flex on how great he was with numbers, churning out calculations and projections in the millions from the top of his head as easy as counting to 10. Really underpinned the sheer stupidity of the firm for firing him. Literally saves their ass by passing on his model.

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Unknownirish t1_j6j7o93 wrote

What's the name of the movie? I know I know I should probably not ask lol

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thelundd t1_j6j82so wrote

Margin call. It’s on Netflix

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parkranger2000 t1_j6k10ss wrote

They almost called it “Sell sell sell!” Few people know.

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theworkinpumpkin t1_j6lmx0e wrote

Hey, my broker recommended me that movie too

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Owner2229 t1_j6m6781 wrote

>movie

Did he also send you his new phone number? Something like $3 875 641

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Dark_Tigger t1_j6m90mv wrote

Margin Call. It has like 6 REALLY great scenes. And the rest is incredibly boring.

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AcSpade t1_j6jgwzy wrote

Imagine how he'd feel about work from home.

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Legitimate-Source-61 t1_j6lv5en wrote

The risk manager was sacked so the plates could be kept spinning a bit longer. Until that pesky Spock found the data.... The CEO was well aware of the economic environment. He just played dumb. I would have liked to know if he cashed in his options even before all this. Plot twist... the firesale at the end was the sale of his remaining options. The CEO bought another Lambo after the film. Pro move.

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AZAnon123 t1_j6mg1k5 wrote

What the fuck are you talking about options? You’re regarded.

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CrimsonGlacier t1_j6oueif wrote

“If people want to live like this– with their cars and their big fucking house they can’t even pay for… then Wall Street is necessary.

The only reason they all get to continue living like kings is because we’ve got our fingers on the scale in their favor.

If I take my hand off? The world gets really fucking fair really fucking quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don’t.”

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6j7zru wrote

It's not that good really. A lot of the writing was clearly written by someone who doesn't know anything about the subject matter and it makes the "professionals" look like idiots. Happens often in finance movies.

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Lost-Aardvark-7182 t1_j6j87q5 wrote

I mean yeah but i don’t really watch it for the realism it’s more for the ambience it evokes

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6j91wu wrote

Makes it unwatchable when one of the professionals is clueless about something basic.

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nsgarcia10 t1_j6joqf5 wrote

They do that because the audience is the ones that likely don’t know anything about finance.

It’s a way to exposition dump.

You’d lost 99% of your audience if you made it accurate

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ThatPizzaDeliveryGuy t1_j6jcbjv wrote

Haven't seen the movie, but wall street professionals being idiots seems pretty accurate to me

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6jdvlv wrote

You have a point. But it's a different kind of cluelessness.

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William_Dowling t1_j6jia4k wrote

As someone who's spent decades in board rooms like that I thought the exact opposite. Clearly someone who'd spent shitloads of time in that environment and needed to explain it in simple terms to non-pros. The head of Risk, Sales, Trading, the CEO, all spot on.

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6jinte wrote

It was among the traders who should have understood risk, not talking about the CEO or the people who didn't necessarily have that expertise. I don't remember the exact moments from this movie, but one that always stands out for me as the epitome of Hollywood finance is in the Big Short when a trader doesn't know what a credit default swap is.

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adamzzz8 t1_j6jy32b wrote

But that's there just so the world famous chef Anthony Bourdain can explain it to the audience who actually have no idea what that is.

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