The Big Short

[Mark Kohut]

Very sorry. 
Self-absorption made me more than rude. 

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> On Jan 17, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How about a spoiler alert or something!!!.....Jeez! 
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>> 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?
>> >
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>> > 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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