The Big Short

[Mark Kohut]

No.

But I knew they were actresses, meta-actresses, so to say. IF they had
had guys in white t-shirts w straps working out or pausing in a game
of basketball, I would have laughed and accepted that. Maybe they
should have had that as one scene, which would 'balance' the sexism?

hey, I said I feel I let you down.
I saw, simply, Hollywood using beauty---as I said with Gosling, etc.
as well---as it does to stylize/romanticize, sell a movie. Hell, every
movie based on real people uses prettier Hollywood types, no?
 I saw the explanations as a way to explain humorously and, yes, to
get more people to like it and go. Create positive word-of-mouth to
build an audience.

Although we may be saying the same thing, I saw those scenes as a way
to say, this stuff IS hard to understand but analogies can work. Saw
that as very smart.

And I do know something about the arcane financial stuff---read Too
Big to Fail and have seen the other couple movies on the whole thing.
The 'realistic' movies.  Recently read the part in Bernanke's autobio
on it.

I also thought the movie was careful with Pitt's little speech about
who would suffer and with the attempts by the impending big winners to
get the news out before it got worse complexified the 'heroes'. And
with the prevention of the fierce moralism of the Carell character. HE
got in because he saw corruption everywhere and was right here too.
His sadness over the unfolding mattered.  A--And with the careful
presentation that it was rigged thru the SEC woman. (That scene did
not happen as on film; was a compression.As Gosling said, that dinner
scene and meeting scene DID.
 Those IMDB folks who excoriated the protagonists  for making money forget
the damage was done already; was going to happen.
Hey, if I could have been one who could have made money, I hope I
would have tried to get the word out, I think I would have and if I
did get rich, I'd use it for Good, of course. (The usual
rationalization, I know).

Mark

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:08 AM, kelber at mindspring.com
<kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> How would it be if they said, " this stuff is so easy to understand, we're
> going to have a black guy explain it to you. " Could you rationalize that?
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> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Laura,
>
> "Sometimes one just has to stand naked"---Dylan.
> Metaphor! Metaphor!
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> I wrote a longer piece this morn on my reaction but
> I'll just say, I'm sorry I failed you....I did like it too.
>
> Rationalized the bubbles scene as a kind of Coen Bros metajoke
> and we saw nothing, nothing...
> and just figured the lap dancer scene was right from the book.
> (a naive sexist too probably).
>
> Ryan Gosling turned me on more than the women and I'm not that way, just
> sayin'. (Although some say as men get older.......)
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> The script may be sexist and typo-riddled, but the movie is freaking
>> fantastic. Better than The Wolf of Wall Street while performing some
>> of the same tricks. More than an engrossing bit of entertainment, it
>> also works as a public service.
>>
>> It's fucking great. Don't let anybody tell you different.
>>
>> J
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