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-->'''Mark Baum''': I want to short every piece of paper he's touched.
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* ForegoneConclusion: In case you didn't know, there's going to be a financial collapse in 2008.
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** We even see what happens to some of the minor characters and it isn't good: One of Burry's employees is shown in his new job, stocking shelves at a convenience store; The two mortgage brokers who Baum meets in Florida are shown wondering through a job fair; Saddest of all, the man who was renting the Florida house (whose landlord hadn't paid his mortgage) with his wife and young children is shown living out of a van.
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** We even see what happens to some of the minor characters and it isn't good: One of Burry's employees is shown in his new job, stocking shelves at a convenience store; The two mortgage brokers who Baum meets in Florida are shown wondering wandering through a job fair; Saddest of all, the man who was renting the Florida house (whose landlord hadn't paid his mortgage) with his wife and young children is shown living out of a van.
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** Another occurs when Baum interrupts the keynote address at an investors' convention to tell him that that there is a zero percent chance that things will not get worse, then gets interrupted by a call on his cell phone and walks out before the speaker can respond. Vennett assures the audience that it actually happened.
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---> '''Ben Rickert''': Do you realize what you've done? You've bet against the American economy.
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** After being lectured by Rickert, Shipley and Geller realize the real world implications of what they're predicting.
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* GreyAndBlackMorality: While the banks are undeniably the villains of the movie, the protagonists are all making money off of their stupidity and most of them are only doing it for that reason.
--> '''Jared Vennett''': I never said I was the hero of this story
** Ben Rickert calls out his teammates about it when the two start dancing over the deals they made.
--> '''Jared Vennett''': I never said I was the hero of this story
** Ben Rickert calls out his teammates about it when the two start dancing over the deals they made.
** The man in Florida has one when he realizes the people he was talking to were saying his landlord is behind payments.
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** Vennett's part in the story starts when he sees a guy talking about the deal he just made with Burry.
** Vennett's part in the story starts when he sees a guy talking about the deal he just made with Burry.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: One of the fourth wall moments is used to mention how unbelievable but actually true it was that [[spoiler: Baum was lecturing about the failures of the subprime mortgage market against a Bear Sterns investor as a run Bear Sterns' stock occurred]]. This contrasts the earlier ContrivedCoincidence where the movie admits that it was made up and quickly details the convoluted answer.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: One of the fourth wall moments is used to mention how unbelievable but actually true it was that [[spoiler: Baum was lecturing about the failures of the subprime mortgage market against a Bear Sterns investor as a run Bear Sterns' stock occurred]]. This contrasts the earlier ContrivedCoincidence where the movie admits that it was made up and quickly details the convoluted answer.complicated actual events.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: One of the fourth wall moments is used to mention how unbelievable but actually true it was that [[spoiler: Baum was lecturing about the failures of the subprime mortgage market against a Bear Sterns investor as a run Bear Sterns' stock occurred]]occurred]]. This contrasts the earlier ContrivedCoincidence where the movie admits that it was made up and quickly details the convoluted answer.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Many of the names were changed in the movie including Baum, Vennett, Shipley, Geller and Rickert. Of the central characters, Michael Burry and Baum's employees all kept their real names. Their real names are in the original novel and their roles and behavioral traits don't change so it's very easy to associate the person with the character.
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A 2015 comedy/drama set during the mid-2000's as several people in the financial industry begin to realize that the housing market is unstable, and that they can make big bucks by betting against the housing market. Based on Michael Lewis' non-fiction book of the same title, ''The Big Short'' irected by Adam [=McKey=] and features an AllStarCast (Creator/SteveCarell, Creator/ChristianBale, Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/BradPitt, Marisa Tomei and Melissa Leo).
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A 2015 comedy/drama set during the mid-2000's as several people in the financial industry begin to realize that the housing market is unstable, and that they can make big bucks by betting against the housing market. Based on Michael Lewis' non-fiction book of the same title, ''The Big Short'' irected is directed by Adam [=McKey=] and features an AllStarCast (Creator/SteveCarell, Creator/ChristianBale, Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/BradPitt, Marisa Tomei and Melissa Leo).
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The DownerEnding, specifically Burry's part of it. [[spoiler:He offers to explain to the government how he foresaw the crash. They audited him instead.]]
* FourManBand: Baum and his team fit this. Although instead of a pervert trope, Vinnie fits a more traditional TheLancer role with Porter as TheSmartGuy and Danny as the ButtMonkey.
* HookersAndBlow: The bankers in the '80s.
* TheLancer: Vinnie, to Baum.
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* PresentDayPast: Mostly averted. The cell phones and other electronics match 2005 when the film's main plot begins, but advertisements on billboards and on screens are very clearly from 2015.
* RotatingProtagonist: The film follows three groups of people: Michael Burry and Scion Capital; Vennett, Baum, and Baum's employees; Shipley, Geller, and Rickert All three storylines are completely self-contained; none of the three groups ever appear onscreen together.
* RotatingProtagonist: The film follows three groups of people: Michael Burry and Scion Capital; Vennett, Baum, and Baum's employees; Shipley, Geller, and Rickert All three storylines are completely self-contained; none of the three groups ever appear onscreen together.
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* PresentDayPast: Mostly averted. The cell phones and other electronics match 2005 when the film's main plot begins, but advertisements on billboards and on screens screens, as well as the celebrity cameos, are very clearly from 2015.
* RotatingProtagonist: The film follows three groups of people: Michael Burry and Scion Capital; Vennett, Baum, and Baum's employees; Shipley, Geller, and Rickert All three storylines are completely self-contained; none of the three groups ever appear onscreentogether.together.
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* RotatingProtagonist: The film follows three groups of people: Michael Burry and Scion Capital; Vennett, Baum, and Baum's employees; Shipley, Geller, and Rickert All three storylines are completely self-contained; none of the three groups ever appear onscreen
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Mark Baum's brother. He's understandably haunted by it.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Mark Baum's brother. He's brother, before the events of the film. The details aren't made specific, but it's suggested that it had to do with financial troubles. Mark is understandably haunted by it.]]
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A 2015 comedy/drama set during the mid-2000's as several people in the financial industry begin to realize that the housing market is unstable, and that they can make big bucks by betting against the housing market. Featuring Based on Michael Lewis' non-fiction book of the same title, ''The Big Short'' irected by Adam [=McKey=] and features an AllStarCast.
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* PresentDayPast: Mostly averted. The cell phones and other electronics match 2005 when the film's main plot begins, but advertisements on billboards and on screens are very clearly from 2015.
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* RotatingProtagonist: The film follows three groups of people: Michael Burry and Scion Capital; Vennett, Baum, and Baum's employees; Shipley, Geller, and Rickert All three storylines are completely self-contained; none of the three groups ever appear onscreen together.
* RotatingProtagonist: The film follows three groups of people: Michael Burry and Scion Capital; Vennett, Baum, and Baum's employees; Shipley, Geller, and Rickert All three storylines are completely self-contained; none of the three groups ever appear onscreen together.
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** Cynic: Vennett
** Realist: Shipley and Geller
** Apathetic: Burry and Rickert
** Conflicted: Baum
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** Apathetic: Burry and Rickert
** Conflicted: Baum
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* AmbiguousDisorder: The real Michael Burry believes he has Aspergers; the film never goes into detail on his odd habits.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Burry, the constantly drumming, monologuing, and shorts-wearing financial investment genius.
** Ben as well. A retired investor with connections everywhere. He also happens to be a paranoid survivalist who hates Wall Street.
** Ben as well. A retired investor with connections everywhere. He also happens to be a paranoid survivalist who hates Wall Street.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Subverted. Shipley and Geller find a copy of Vennett's short pitch in a lobby. Then they break the fourth wall to explain this didn't actually happen, they found out about the short pitch in a roundabout way.
* HeelRealization: Shipley and Geller have a serious one.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: During Vennett's [[LemonyNarrator snarky narration]] he describes the protagonists as "weirdos and outsiders," then quickly adds that he isn't weird, he's "actually pretty cool."
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The two mortgage guys Baum and co. meet in Florida. At first they seem to just be sleazy, then they're revealed to be knowingly corrupt.
* LemonyNarrator: Vennett, very much so.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The two mortgage guys Baum and co. meet in Florida. At first they seem to just be sleazy, then they're revealed to be knowingly corrupt.
* LemonyNarrator: Vennett, very much so.
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* OneSceneWonder: Robbie, Bourdain, and Gomez would certainly qualify, as would Melissa Leo as a S&P executive, and Marisa Tomei (in a couple of scenes) as Baum's wife.
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** Baum, to a lesser extent. He has trouble keeping his opinion to himself, and as his EstablishingCharacterMoment shows, doesn't seem to get or respect the rules of a therapy group.
* OhCrap: Not counting Baum's earlier EurekaMoment, Baum and his team have a collective one when they realize that since one of the banks technically owns their fund, they could lose everything if the bank goes under.
* OneSceneWonder: Robbie, Bourdain, and Gomez would certainly qualify, as would Melissa Leo as a S&P executive, and Marisa Tomei (in a couple of scenes) as Baum'swife.wife.
* PetTheDog: Burry works past his NoSocialSkills to give some advice to a young employee before he leaves the office.
* PresentDayPast: Mostly averted. The cell phones and other electronics match 2005 when the film's main plot begins, but advertisements on billboards and on screens are very clearly from 2015.
* OhCrap: Not counting Baum's earlier EurekaMoment, Baum and his team have a collective one when they realize that since one of the banks technically owns their fund, they could lose everything if the bank goes under.
* OneSceneWonder: Robbie, Bourdain, and Gomez would certainly qualify, as would Melissa Leo as a S&P executive, and Marisa Tomei (in a couple of scenes) as Baum's
* PetTheDog: Burry works past his NoSocialSkills to give some advice to a young employee before he leaves the office.
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* EurekaMoment: Several characters experience one, although Baum's is most notable: He realizes that there most definitely is a housing bubble while talking to a stripper who owns five houses and a condo.
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* MilliontoOneChance: Baum and Vennett only end up in business together due to a wrong-number phone call on Vennett's part.
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* NoSocialSkills: Burry, by his own admission. He has trouble interacting with his co-workers and investors, is awkward in one-on-one interactions with his employees, and met his wife on match.com.
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* Million-to-OneChance: Baum and Vennett only end up in business together due to a wrong-number phone call on Vennett's part.
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* OneSceneWonder: Robbie, Bourdain, and Gomez would certainly qualify, as would Melissa Leo as a S&P executive, and Marisa Tomei (in a couple of scenes) as Baum's wife.
* OneSceneWonder: Robbie, Bourdain, and Gomez would certainly qualify, as would Melissa Leo as a S&P executive, and Marisa Tomei (in a couple of scenes) as Baum's wife.
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* InfoDump: Done in a unique way: Rather than fill us in on complex financial things through traditional exposition, the film introduces celebrities to explain it to us. We get Margot Robbie explaining mortgage bonds in a bubblebath, Anthony Bourdain using unsold fish to illustrate how banks handle unsold bonds, and Selena Gomez at a blackjack table illustrating how synthetic CDO's work.
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* Million-to-OneChance: Baum and Vennett only end up in business together due to a wrong-number phone call on Vennett's part.
* Million-to-OneChance: Baum and Vennett only end up in business together due to a wrong-number phone call on Vennett's part.
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** Burry alienates almost everyone who he was doing business with, although since he gladly walks away from it all, it qualifies as more of a BittersweetEnding for him. Baum and his associates profit immensely from the credit default swaps, but he is clearly heartbroken by his decision to go through with it. Shipley and Geller make millions but are horrified that no one in the media seems to care about the fraud that has taken place.
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*Infodump: Done in a unique way: Rather than fill us in on complex financial things through traditional exposition, the film introduces celebrities to explain it to us. We get Margot Robbie explaining mortgage bonds in a bubblebath, Anthony Bourdain using unsold fish to illustrate how banks handle unsold bonds, and Selena Gomez at a blackjack table illustrating how synthetic CDO's work.
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**Burry alienates almost everyone who he was doing business with, although since he gladly walks away from it all, it qualifies as more of a BittersweetEnding for him. Baum and his associates profit immensely from the credit default swaps, but he is clearly heartbroken by his decision to go through with it. Shipley and Geller make millions but are horrified that no one in the media seems to care about the fraud that has taken place.
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**Burry alienates almost everyone who he was doing business with, although since he gladly walks away from it all, it qualifies as more of a BittersweetEnding for him. Baum and his associates profit immensely from the credit default swaps, but he is clearly heartbroken by his decision to go through with it. Shipley and Geller make millions but are horrified that no one in the media seems to care about the fraud that has taken place.
