The Big Short

[Keith Davis]

How about a spoiler alert or something!!!.....Jeez!



On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Laura,
> >
> > "Sometimes one just has to stand naked"---Dylan.
> > Metaphor! Metaphor!
> >
> > 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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