Russell's I Heart Huckabees - in the sense that complicated terminology and jargon (here, involving the inner-workings of Wall Street as well as the credit and housing market) are explained through witty and rapid-fire dialogue delivered by the film's characters. The Big Short adapts Lewis' non-fictional source material into a film that unfolds largely as a screwball comedy in the vein of David O.

The Big Short has its flaws, but is one of the more unique movies based on non-fiction literature in recent memory, for these reasons. What distinguishes The Big Short from its predecessors - or your average awards season release based on real events for that matter - is that the film openly (and gleefully) admits when it's veering away from the very facts that inspired it. However, the more these 'outsiders' learn about these shady dealings, the more it becomes clear that corruption in Wall Street runs deeper than even they (or anyone else) could have imagined.īased on Michael Lewis' 2010 non-fiction book 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', The Big Short takes liberties with the true story that inspired it, similar to previous movie adaptations of Lewis' non-fiction writing ( The Blind Side, Moneyball). Soon thereafter, other individuals - including up and coming investors Charlie Geller (John Magaro) and Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) as well as the outspoken hedge fund manager Mark Baum (Steve Carell) and the scheming trader Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) - catch wind of these fraudulent activities in the financial sector and likewise set out to profit from it. Despite his past success as a hedge fund manager, though, Burry is largely dismissed by his investors and not-so-quietly mocked by his clients (who believe the subprime market to be strong). Scion Capital LLC founder Michael Burry (Christian Bale) is among the first to recognize that mortgage lending practices during the early 2000s are faulty and sets out to profit by betting against the marketplace, based on these predictions. The Big Short tells the story of different individuals who foresaw the 2007 credit and housing bubble collapse a couple years before the U.S.

The Big Short has its flaws, but is one of the more unique movies based on non-fiction literature in recent memory.

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