But as my mother and aunt snored beside me in the theater, I realized that women were so scarce and their characters so thin in The Big Short, it failed the Bechdel Test. I suspected a certain boys’ club factor based on the film’s ad campaign, which blasted the surnames of its very famous (and very white and very male) cast in mammoth, all-caps letters: BALE, CARELL, GOSLING, PITT.

The narrative revolves around these characters: Steve Eisman of FrontPoint partners, who bet against the subprime lending industry thanks to the.

Even though, Mark doesnt believe: how is the real estate market. It focuses in particular on a few exceptional people who were able to predict the crisis in advance and thus profit from it. Mark Baum is flooded by quantitative data during the presentation. We’ll cover how Greg Lippmann orchestrated much of the activity surrounding shorting the housing market leading up to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Then I saw the film over the holidays and realized that, in fact, she’s barely in it at all-just about two (solid) scenes as the wife of Mark Baum (Steve Carell), one of the Wall Street whizzes who wisely bets against, or “shorts,” the secretly crumbling U.S. The Big Short tells the story of the lead-up to the 2007-2008 financial crisis. In the film The Big Short, Ryan Gosling’s character is based on Greg Lippmann.

Before seeing The Big Short, I was excited that the brilliant Marisa Tomei-she of My Cousin Vinny and The Wrestler and the current campiness on Empire-was in it.

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