- Christian Bale plays Michael Burry in “The Big Short,” for which he’s been nominated for an Academy Award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role.
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You may not agree with “The Big Short” movie’s moralistic take on the financial crisis.
But it gets the details right, says Wall Street Journal chief economics commentator Greg Ip.
“It takes the hardest part of the story to tell, which is the abstruseness of the finance, and breaks it down into easy pieces. Even for us who cover the stuff for a living, this stuff is hard,” he said in a recent conversation with the film’s director, Adam McKay, and others at the Brookings Institution.
Watch as you consider the movie’s bid for best motion picture of the year:
Related reading:
‘The Big Short,’ the Great Depression and the Evolution of Crisis Narratives
What the ‘Big Short’ Movie Gets Right—and Wrong—About the Financial Crisis
Video Interview With ‘Big Short’ Director Adam McKay
from Real Time Economics http://ift.tt/1WOAUQd
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