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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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