History Trivia / TheBigShort

** Creator/SteveCarell, also known for his comedic work, plays one of the movie's most dramatic, serious characters -- the pessimistic and stressed-out Mark Baum.

* NamesTheSame: A meta example -- the real life person Steve Carell's character is based on is named Steve as well.

* TheForeignSubtitle: France: ''The Big Short: The Heist of the Century''
* NamesTheSame: A meta example -- The real life person Steve Carrel's character is based on is named Steve as well.

** It's not the first time Creator/ChristianBale has played an American character [[Film/AmericanPsycho who works in finance and who hasn't mastered a lot of the finer points of social interaction]]. This one, however, is really good at his job.
*** If you stretch "finance" to heading a billion dollar company, [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy he's really made a career out of this.]]

* TheForeignSubtitle:
** France: ''The Big Short: The Heist of the Century''

** Creator/SteveCarell, also known for his comedic work, plays the pessimistic and stressed out Mark Baum.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Jeremy Strong of ''Series/{{Succession}}'' as one of the movie's many scumbag finance bros.

** Not an acting example, but director Adam [=McKay=] takes a significant departure from his goofball, purely comedic style as seen in ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', ''Film/StepBrothers'' and ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' and adopts a more dramatic, darker tone.

** Creator/BradPitt, famous for playing cool, charismatic anti-heroes and villains, plays a quiet, anti-social conspiracy theorist who is arguably the most moral person in the movie. He's essentially doing a RobertRedford, the actor he is most often compared to.

** Creator/BradPitt, famous for playing cool, charismatic anti-heroes and villains, plays a quiet, anti-social conspiracy theorist who is arguably the most moral person in the movie.

* FishEyes: According to IMDb, there were no special effects used in Creator/ChristianBale's onscreen recreation of Michael Burry's GlassEye. He can do that voluntarily.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Bruce Wayne]], [[Film/{{Drive}} The Driver]], [[Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin Andy Stitzer]], [[Film/MySoulToTake Alex Dunkelman]], [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow Dandy Mott]], and [[Film/FightClub Tyler Durden]] figure out the housing market bubble is going to burst and plan to profit off it.

** Not an acting example, but director Adam [=McKay=] takes a significant departure from his goofball, purely comedic style as seen in ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', ''Film/StepBrothers'' and ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' and adopts a more dramatic, darker tons.

** Not an acting example, but director Adam [=McKay=] takes a significant departure from his comedic style as seen in ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', ''Film/StepBrothers'' and ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' and adopts a more dramatic, darker tone.

** Not an acting example, but director Adam McKay takes a significant departure from his comedic style as seen in ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', ''Film/StepBrothers'' and ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' and adopts a more dramatic, darker tone.
** Creator/SteveCarrell, also known for his comedic work, plays the pessimistic and stressed out Mark Baum.

** It's not the first time Christian Bale has played an American character [[Film/AmericanPsycho who works in finance and who hasn't mastered a lot of the finer points of social interaction]]. This one, however, is actually really good at his job.
** Brad Pitt plays an [[Film/FightClub anarchist-survivalist who's quite eccentric, a bit weird about answering his phone and grows his own crops. His plan also hinges on a massive disaster in the financial sector]].