#THE BIG SHORT MENU MOVIE#

It's a witty approach which thankfully (and safely) assumes no prior knowledge of this world.

The movie combats this issue not with a glossary of terms for you to read over beforehand but with three lessons dispatched by actress Margot Robbie in a bathtub, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain in a kitchen, and Selena Gomez and some financial bigwig (the only one who requires an identifying caption) at a blackjack table. The plot deals extensively with complex financial practices and ideas, or at least practices and ideas that the industry would like you to think are too complex for you to understand with their unnatural terms and abbreviations. The movie almost has the feel of a documentary as it makes extensive use of news and pop culture images and video to identify time periods and to explain how these events came to be. Gosling plays our narrator Jared Vennett, who occasionally features in the story and often directly addresses the camera.

Though humor is prevalent, the subject is no laughing matter for McKay or his distinguished cast, which includes four A-listers in Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt. McKay and Charles Randolph ( Love & Other Drugs) adapt a 2010 book by Michael Lewis, whose non-fiction work was the basis for The Blind Side and Moneyball. It was classified as a comedy for the purposes of the Golden Globes, but there are fewer jokes than there were in The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie this evokes enough to categorize as a spiritual sequel or companion piece. The two have co-founded Funny or Die and lent their support to comics and concepts they believe in, producing everything from 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Drunk History' to Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie and even Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.īig Short takes McKay in a new direction. McKay has long been known as Will Ferrell's creative partner, having followed the funnyman from 'Saturday Night Live' to direct and co-write Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers and more.

In The Big Short, McKay takes his interest and scorn even further. Director Adam McKay made his disgust with the industry responsible for the 2008 financial crisis crystal clear in The Other Guys, a buddy action comedy that ended with a number of charts and figures bemoaning bankers' reckless, largely unregulated, entirely self-serving practices,Ī topic that had some relevance to the film's timely plot.

#THE BIG SHORT MENU MOVIE#

The big short menu