1 | * ActorAllusion: |
2 | ** 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. In addition, if you stretch "finance" to heading a billion dollar company, [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy he's really made a career out of this.]] |
3 | ** Creator/BradPitt 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]]. |
4 | * CompletelyDifferentTitle: |
5 | ** Brazil: ''The Great Bet'' |
6 | ** Canada: ''The Heist of the Century'' |
7 | ** Croatia: ''Bet of the Century'' |
8 | ** Czech Republic: ''Bet on Uncertainty'' |
9 | ** Estonia: ''Big Lie'' |
10 | ** Japan: ''Money Short: A Splendid Reversal'' |
11 | ** Portugal: ''The Wall Street Fall'' |
12 | ** Romania: ''The Brokers of the Apocalypse'' |
13 | ** Slovenia: ''Great Move'' |
14 | ** Ukraine: ''Drop Game'' |
15 | * CreatorsOddball: 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. |
16 | * FakeAmerican: |
17 | ** British Creator/ChristianBale as Michael Burry |
18 | ** British Creator/RafeSpall as the American Danny Moses |
19 | ** Creator/RyanGosling, who is Canadian, playing Jared Vennett. |
20 | * FishEyes: No special effects were used in Creator/ChristianBale's onscreen recreation of Michael Burry's GlassEye. He can do that voluntarily. |
21 | * TheForeignSubtitle: In France, it's called ''The Big Short: The Heist of the Century.'' |
22 | * PlayingAgainstType: |
23 | ** Creator/SteveCarell, mostly known for his comedic work, plays one of the movie's most dramatic, serious characters -- the pessimistic and stressed-out Mark Baum. |
24 | ** 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 Creator/RobertRedford, the actor he is most often compared to. |
25 | ** Heartthrob Creator/RyanGosling, known for playing either straightforward protagonists or cool, conflicted stoics, plays a smarmy, self-centered, arrogant scumbag who's smugly aware of his own villainy. |
26 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MargotRobbie's cameo was originally scripted to feature Creator/ScarlettJohansson. |
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