![]() ![]() Do I think it is going to trigger political change? I bet it gets the conversation going again. It’s very hard to know what people are going to care about. ![]() That’s what Michael Burry was wearing when Christian Bale went to see him, and Christian was like, “Can I have your clothes?” I guess he has had to get new clothes now.ĭo you think if a lot of people see the movie, it might get people angry about the financial crisis again? I asked Adam: How did he even know he was wearing that when I went to see him? The answer is he didn’t. Christian Bale was so much like Michael Burry that I thought it was creepy - he did a very, very good job. I was shocked by how close, especially the principals, captured the actual people. Here, he talks about the Hail Mary long shot of making of the movie, its chances to make audiences furious about bailouts, and why no one really got all that furious the first time around. ![]() The man who really knows what went wrong is Michael Lewis, the author of the book on which the movie is based and a few other masterworks of financial journalism. This week’s Vulture cover story, on Adam McKay’s The Big Short, asks whether America is angry enough for a Hollywood version of Occupy Wall Street, and if McKay’s brand of dick jokes can actually teach us something about the financial crisis and what went wrong in 2008. ![]()
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