Favorite Scene from the Big Short
Love this movie. I’ll start: the scene where Ben agrees to help Jamie and Charlie and Feel Good Inc starts playing
Trending Content
Career Resources
WSO Free Modeling Series - Now Open Through
May 31, 2024
9 Free Financial Modeling Lessons
Get instant access to lessons taught by experienced private equity pros and bulge bracket investment bankers including financial statement modeling, DCF, M&A, LBO, Comps and Excel Modeling.
+Bonus: Get 27 financial modeling templates in swipe file
+Bonus: Get 27 financial modeling templates in swipe file
“Thats my Quant”
- Your what?
“My Quantitative, my math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face “
- That’s pretty racist
“Look at his eyes. I’ll give you a hint, his names YANG. He won a National math competition in China. He doesn’t even speak english”
- Huh?
“Yeah I’m sure of the math”
Favorite scene 😂
Same here, but because of the “that’s a nice shirt, do they make it for men?” line.
Micahel Burry at GS:
"We can sell you $5M of Credit Default Swaps"
MB: "How about $100M"
Ludacris Shake your Moneymaker plays
"I like these cups..."
haha he did take some cups - classic
Margot Robbie in the hot tub explaining subprimes with lots of foamy bubbles drinking champagne.
I’m gonna rip your eyes out, I’m gonna make a fortune. But the good news is is not you’re not gonna care because you’re gonna make so much fucking money. That’s what I get out of it. You wanna know what you get out of it? The ice cream banana the hot fudge and the nuts. Right now I get the sprinkles and yea if this goes through I get the cherry. But you get the Sunday Vinny, you get the sundae
lol
"short everything that guy touched"
This
Anthony Bourdain explaining CDOs, RIP.
Pretty much every Ryan Gosling scene
I don’t like the movie because it doesn’t do a good job at explaining any of the products. Sure, it’s boring shit to the audience, but what good does saying “it’s like dog shit wrapped in cat shit” do? Communicate to the audience CDO = bad?
Yeah that’s my favorite scene too
The book does a way better job at going into detail, of course. The movie is entertainment for the masses.
"We were just f*ing excited"
"Just don't f*ing dance*
“- Mark Baum's Mom: Then what's the problem, rabbi?
- Rabbi: It's the reason Mark is studying so hard. He's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God!
- Mark Baum's Mom: So has he found any?”
"I feel like I'm financially inside of you or something... I'm jacked... I'M JACKED TO THE TITS"
This
How much is enough?
It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.
Which scene was that one?
It's from Wall Street (1987) - the scene where Bud Fox confronts Gordon Gekko towards the end.
Has got to be the Chinese guy scene
yep, echo this
Random/fun fact, in the movie, the main character is wearing a T-shirt of my friend's company, Thorn Guitars!
The actual big short guy was obsessed with his guitars and owns a ton of them.
Oh wow. It’s actually pretty cool how that shirt ended up in the movie - I heard this and wonder if your friend can confirm. Christian Bale, who plays Michael Burry, is a method actor and shadowed Burry to study him for the movie. When they were done, Bale asked him if he could have his shirt and shorts to get in character and then wore them throughout the movie. Michael Lewis has said that he spent a long time with Burry interviewing him for the book but was blown away by how accurately Christian Bale was able to capture him in his acting.
The delivery of “You own a boat?” is perfect
THIS - so glad someone mentioned this. Makes me crack up every time.
This movie is on Netflix until the end of the month.
The entire scene with the guy at JP Morgan meeting Jamie and Charlie. That guys acting was too good.
“Who tf schedules a meeting at 4:50”
Haha yeah a meeting at 4:50 in the lobby
Real story: I had to do a 3am meeting on Friday morning once. It was an Asian Sovereign, and the meeting had to be convenient to them. We won the business (low 9 figures) but they've been annoying ever since and we constantly grumble and ask if we should have walked.
EDIT: Goldman's then head of credit has an amazing story about flying into one of those countries in '98. I heard it at a dinner after NYSSA SQA's annual event. They pulled the plane off the tarmac and shoved him in a limo. He couldn't be known to be there, but they needed the float. When the president of a country says "don't stamp that passport" I guess it's ok.
"Fucking A Jared"
"Shut your fucking mouth"
Every interaction between those two is gold
“I think it’s time for you to quit Wall Street”
“I love my job”
“You hate your job”
“I love my job”
“You’re miserable”
“I love my job. I love my job honey”
Steve Carrell is such a good and hilarious actor.
"The contracts are VOIDED? THE CONTRACTS ARE VOIDED? Oh motherFUCKER"
"Give me my money back, you motherfucker"
Michael, I want my money back
The conversation at the bar with the mortgage brokers gotta be up there too. Such strong acting all round. Every character in the movie no matter how small a role is so on point.
None of this touches the board room scene in Margin Call. Jeremy Irons >>>
All the big ones are hit already but the one line that always gets me is when the woman Kathy from Morgan Stanley is in Baum's office reaming everyone out and as she is storming out Porter hits her with a sarcastic "Byeeee Kathhhhhyyyyyy". Absolutely perfect delivery.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/428e27f3-b0f5-4a22-801c-fe9f979896eb
Fucking-A Jared!!!
Michael Burry's cameo when Lawrence and his lawyer come to Scion Capital asking for their money back.
“You guys wanted to be rich, now you’re rich”
haha classic
“Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry”
- Chinese banker at bar
- "look at my quant"
- the mortgage brokers meeting
- I'm jacked to the tits
- Burry meeting with bankers
- Meeting at JPM lobby
Mark Baum interrupting the American Securitization Forum in Vegas
“Would you say it is a possibility or a probability that subprime losses stop at 5%?”
-I would say it is a very strong probability
“Excuse me….zero. There is a zero percent chance that your subprime losses will stop at 5%”
**phone loudly rings
“Excuse me, I have to take this… hi honey. No, I’m not really doing anything right now, I’m with the kids”
**Stands up and walks out of the forum mid-presentation
Maxime illum magni error autem. Quo molestias exercitationem necessitatibus reprehenderit sed.
Aut doloribus adipisci repellat laudantium laudantium explicabo. Qui vitae laudantium rem rerum assumenda. Quia necessitatibus a recusandae nam eaque quo magnam. Ipsum quia nulla inventore asperiores explicabo. Voluptatibus non voluptates quisquam porro voluptatibus. Corporis et nihil accusantium molestiae.
Molestiae quibusdam consequuntur voluptas ratione. Qui maxime illum quo odio et quo vitae repellendus. At temporibus quisquam labore rerum quo inventore. Praesentium totam quia modi quo itaque. Atque perferendis et est facere numquam et. Sed magnam eligendi consequatur in nihil.
Non laudantium eum sapiente sit et. Aut ex expedita ratione quis. Similique itaque repellat mollitia quo perspiciatis. Asperiores qui numquam eius dignissimos ullam nihil.
See All Comments - 100% Free
WSO depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something. Unlock with your email and get bonus: 6 financial modeling lessons free ($199 value)
or Unlock with your social account...
Iste cum facilis modi hic ea deleniti ab sit. Quibusdam quasi fuga suscipit quam placeat culpa. Qui sunt qui omnis sed iste.
Rerum laborum ducimus dolorem debitis debitis consequatur. Ab quasi nesciunt quis laboriosam similique. Consequatur harum nostrum eos enim.
Qui culpa error aut qui. Expedita inventore unde optio. Expedita dolor dolores distinctio aspernatur dolore eos odio. Et provident aut molestias ullam.
Veniam itaque voluptatem possimus molestiae ducimus dolorem quia. Omnis ut numquam blanditiis impedit aut similique. Alias dicta aliquid veniam sunt et ipsam cumque accusantium. Laborum dolores qui magni qui occaecati praesentium.
Cumque inventore voluptatem ad tempore assumenda nihil dignissimos. Voluptatem eligendi officiis blanditiis ad dolores et sunt nam.