All the actors did an amazing job on this film. There was an awful lot of improvisation, but they explained what happened and made the story interesting.
I never looked twice at Steve Carell until this movie. I was blown away by his fantastic acting, with a sad, yet hilarious character that I believed in 100%. I will be paying closer attention to him from now on.
Yo watch him (and B. Cran and L. Fish.) in Last Flag Flying. Phenomenal. While you're at it, check out The Meyerowitz Stories. I love it when these comedic actors who typically play ridiculous roles that I mostly dislike turn and do some drama. Frickin phenomenal.
Steve Carell has come out as a brilliant actor in this fantastic movie.If you are a fan of his work like i am ..please do not miss this movie. In fact all the actors in this movie are amazing..The drama will keep you on the edge of your seat! Steve Carell 10/10 Christian Bale 10/10 Ryan Gosling 10/10 Brad Pitt 10/10 Finn & John 10/10 Movie 10/10
Ironically, I was NOT a fan of his work. Prior to seeing this movie I always had Steve Carell pegged as an Adam Sandler type of limited rom-com actor. Then I see this and within five minutes of his character being on screen I realize that STEVE CARELL CAN ACT. Not just act funny or act goofy but actually act, as in the art of acting. Blew my mind. Why haven't they given this man more proper roles where he's got a chance to actually act? That's what I wanna know.
@@panzerkami2381 Steve Carell is about 20x funnier than Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler has the humour of a child; Steve is actually amusing. Steve is also 100% a better actor.
The great thing about Steve Carell's portrayal is that he actually shows the humanity of Steve Eisman - that he felt the pain of participating in the event, even though he did not cause the problem, he knew what the fraud would do to ordinary people and he was against fraud.
I can't tell you how many times I have watched this movie. I find it endlessly fascinating. What a cast of characters. It is hard for me to see these actors as anything but the characters they played in this movie. Stellar actors in a fantastic movie.
This mówię changed my opinion about Steve Carell. He did an amazing job in this movie. Real masterpiece. Thank you for this hard work. it’s been a real pleasure watching.
Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling treated us with some incredible performances in The Big Short. It's a pity how they've slid back to their typical "Steve Carrell" and "Ryan Gosling" roles ever since..
Such a great movie. I’ve watched it about four times over the past couple months...just to get a better grasp about what took place during the collapse. We had a business that succumbed to the recession and The Big Short gives some insight into what we weren’t seeing over that period of time...though I don’t know if understanding it at the time, would have changed the trajectory of the path we personally were traveling.
I truly feel 'The Big Short' and 'Foxcatcher' will be remembered as Steve Carrel's typebusting rôles. Just like Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 'Capote', and much else besides; Jim Carey in 'Man on the Moon'; and Robin Williams in both 'Insomnia' and 'One Hour Photo', he has learnt the art of 'stillness': instead of manic, crazy, performances, he found a way to be introspective; reign in his excesses; and create subtle, but utterly convincing, personae. I hope to see more of him in dramatic rôles ... now he has broken free of his typecasting, he deserves to be able to extend his acting potental.
He's a fantastic dramatic actor too, but Michael Scott will probably always overshadow everything else he ever does, to a degree. I'm sure that Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Aniston can relate.
You know Hollywood had to put Ryan gosling,Brad Pitt, Christian bale and Steve carell in for people to watch a movie about finance and they still wouldn't watch it.
You could tell from this interview that Farrell wasn’t just reading a script for this movie, he truly understands the ins and outs of the housing market collapse, the man truly did his research ✊
I'm gonna get lynched for this, but you know what's amazing? How much more boring Carell is in interviews when talking about the book/crisis than the real Steve Eisman ("Mark Baum"), who is really interesting to listen to (there's some good interviews on youtube). It's really a compliment to Carell as an actor, that could do such a fantastic job with this role, act it so impressively; when Carell himself is talking about these issues I don't believe for a second he actually understands the subject matter. I only believe he understood the movie script.
That can is going to be kicked over and over. I wouldn't be too concerned about a "day of reckoning". We are probably going to simply have a long series of small reckonings. We started having them well in advance of the 2007-2008 melt down. The Russia defaults, the Long Term Capital melt down, the Greek debt crisis, the near failure of Social security under Ronald Reagan. In the future we will have public pension shortfalls and issues in China and other developing nations.
@@howard5992 I fear Depression 2.0 is in our near future. This can has been kicked about as far as possible....They just papered over the first mess, instead of letting it fail and correct.....The derivatives market alone is terrifying, absolutely unbelievable. The repeal of Glass-Steagall shouldn't have happened.
...I've respected him before, I've known his range and capabilities, but in this video he's just a decent human being - and a true professional. I'm stunned by the fact, that he can be so thoughtful, so responsible and then so funny within the comedy realm. If I'd be gay, I'd want to find a man like Steve Carell.
Steve Carell did a very good rule, to be honest i could not believe that this is Steve Carell , i said who the hell is that, a perfect actor, you should have win an OSCAR
One reason this has folded into the background is it is difficult to follow. People have short attention spans and want a three word explanation. Not possible so it is now background noise...
I think that whist you’re supposed to like the Michael Berry character and Jamie and Charlie from Brownfield you’re not supposed to like Mark Baum initially but during the course of the film you begin to like him as he provides the conscience whist discovering the fraud going on in the American banks. It’s a great film.
The final scene where he's overlooking the city realizing he's about to essentially be paid with money from the american people for the banks, and how that tears him up that he is a part of the corruption whilst being apart. I love Steve Eisman because he's unapologetically ambitious but self conscious, steve carrell did an amazing job at doing that
he didn't read the book. If you read the book in the first chapter you will found that his character work in small firm as a equity analyst and he wrote about subprime first bubble. I am not native english speaker.
Steven forgot his last phone call in the movie here 2:44 *Taxpayers first bailed out AIG, the insurance broker that the big banks used to cover their bets. THEN, taxpayers bailed out the banks themselves.* If you notice in the movie, there were clear markers and again, near the end of the movie, Steve's Team realize that the Crash should have begun but the market was being held up to wring out everyone EXCEPT the big banks. In real life, after the double bailout from Taxpayers, the big banks paid their top brass huge bonuses. Like Steven said on the last phone call; "they knew" the banks knew.
What he said at the end on the roof top about immigrants and poor people taking the hit for the crash was bang on the money. The billionaires never really lose out. They may lose a few million but overall they make far more from a crash than they lose out.
They drown out the plea as they shun the carnage of the sacrifices made by those that came before and doom the future of those who come after. Shame on us all. I am sure he had an Oscar in mind.
I was upset when Steve Carrell left the office, because I thought he left to do shitty movies like "Dinner with Schmucks," but then, this movie came along and made me okay with Steve leaving the office
Great movie. Good book too. Michael Lewis wrote Boomerang also... a global perspective of the housing bubble deflation. The housing market still hasn't failed. People still have houses and they are still worth money. Market just made a big correction to almost what it should've been.
Liked the movie. A lot of lessons. Liked the presentations too. I recall when this situation was presented on CBS' 60 Minutes. What surprised me that few if any bad guys went jail over this. Indeed they typically, according to what I recall 60 Minutes correctly, they got bonuses. Can't get too much stranger than that.
I’m not sure the housing market bubble was originally intended to be a scam. Maybe a case of groundless finacial & social assumptions that put bankers and investors in a ruinous position that could only be rectified by malfeasance. Who knows
Technically they would have made more - essentially they sold the securities back to the banks. They didn’t actually have to sell at all - instead they could have waited for the bonds to fail utterly and then try to collect on the default swap. In the film his people convince him to sell the default swaps back to the banks before that - arguing that if they wait any longer the banks will collapse and they’ll get nothing anyway. No idea how accurate the films portrayal of this is, but holding longer almost certainly made them more - but waiting too long might mean he made so much on the trade that the banks couldn’t afford to pay.
@@maxparker4808 Steve Eisman (i.e. Mark Baum) explained in a conference that the issue with the credit default swaps (which was the instrument for their short position) was that you'd lose everything if the issuer also went bankrupt and many of them were hedged against each other making that a very real possibility. As for whether Steve would've made more money if he had closed his position later, I don't know. Probably, since his main ambition was to expose and correct the wrong, not to optimize winnings that were already more than he'll ever need.
he did an amazing job. him, Goslin, Bale ALL KILLED it
Fabo Andolini Brad Pitt
All the actors did an amazing job on this film. There was an awful lot of improvisation, but they explained what happened and made the story interesting.
I had no idea he could deliver such an incredible dramatic performance.
@@darknagaadventures7884 I mean have you seen threat level midnight?
@@quitebad459 reply of the year!!!
I have probably watched this movie 20 times.
man i have stopped counting at this point. sure a great movie!
Me too! Somehow I keep thinking of the movie and I keep rewatching it
Its mostly the acting, the story is immersive but its a huge ensemble cast of great actors
It's like watching a car crash over and over.
it took me around 10 times of rewatching the movie to understand it. But when it clicks, everything makes perfect sense.
From the role of Michael Scott to Mark Baum, I just have to say that Steve Carell is an exceptional actor.
I never looked twice at Steve Carell until this movie. I was blown away by his fantastic acting, with a sad, yet hilarious character that I believed in 100%. I will be paying closer attention to him from now on.
“They call me chicken little. They call me bubble boy”
M Y let's not talk about my margins being nice and fat, nice shirt, do they make it for men?
@@narutobroken Nice shirt, yes, yes?!
I'm jacked. I'm jacked to the TITS!
seen the movie. Steve Carell is fantastic
+cathy figueroa He's really fantastic! So is Ryan Gosling - didn't even know it was him until the final credits.
+cathy figueroa i thought the same, but Christian Bale takes some beating in this film IMO
Cristian Bale often takes a beating in his films.
Yo watch him (and B. Cran and L. Fish.) in Last Flag Flying. Phenomenal. While you're at it, check out The Meyerowitz Stories. I love it when these comedic actors who typically play ridiculous roles that I mostly dislike turn and do some drama. Frickin phenomenal.
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Steve Carell has come out as a brilliant actor in this fantastic movie.If you are a fan of his work like i am ..please do not miss this movie. In fact all the actors in this movie are amazing..The drama will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Steve Carell 10/10
Christian Bale 10/10
Ryan Gosling 10/10
Brad Pitt 10/10
Finn & John 10/10
Movie 10/10
janakiram suswaram sir, Ryan Gosling was actually 11/10 at least
I think Steve was too much of a Michael in this movie. Every time he yells, I hear Michael Scott.
Ironically, I was NOT a fan of his work. Prior to seeing this movie I always had Steve Carell pegged as an Adam Sandler type of limited rom-com actor. Then I see this and within five minutes of his character being on screen I realize that STEVE CARELL CAN ACT. Not just act funny or act goofy but actually act, as in the art of acting.
Blew my mind. Why haven't they given this man more proper roles where he's got a chance to actually act? That's what I wanna know.
@@panzerkami2381 Steve Carell is about 20x funnier than Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler has the humour of a child; Steve is actually amusing. Steve is also 100% a better actor.
Don't forget the pole dancer Bebe
this guy is a genius, I really loved his acting in this movie.
he has no idea about the motivations of the man hes portaying.......$$$$$ only.
@@brendanbloomberg3283 yup, but he knows and understands the character from the script, that’s enough. It’s not a documentary
@@Unexpectedstuff aaaaand my point stands.
@@brendanbloomberg3283 which point though?
How this relates to Carell’s acting?
@@Unexpectedstuff if you know anyone in finance you his character was bullshit.
The great thing about Steve Carell's portrayal is that he actually shows the humanity of Steve Eisman - that he felt the pain of participating in the event, even though he did not cause the problem, he knew what the fraud would do to ordinary people and he was against fraud.
I keep expecting Dwight Schrute to be standing behind him with his arms crossed
Brilliant movie, with brilliant script, directing and acting
I can't tell you how many times I have watched this movie. I find it endlessly fascinating. What a cast of characters. It is hard for me to see these actors as anything but the characters they played in this movie.
Stellar actors in a fantastic movie.
Steve was awesome but the best quote still goes to Pitt (IMO) : Stop it! Everytime unemployement goes UP 1% 40k people die. Just stop dancing.
Just don't fucking dance* but yea, agreed
“Do you have any idea what you just did?”
“You’ve just bet again the American economy.”
why are you talking about the best quote lol irrelevant. talks about an actor and then the quote. lol doofus
@@OS-yg9fr Thanks for your input. I'll take it to heart and try to not be a "doofus" as you say. Or I'll continue to talk about what I want.
Whoever made the decision to cast Carrell in this role deserves much respect, as does Carrell for outstanding performance.
An earlier comment mentioned other movies that he acted in brillantly. I haven't seen those, but yes, his performance in this was amazing!
I couldn't take Steve carell serious before this movie
not even in crazy, stupid, love??
He was amazing in The Way, Way Back.
Ye same this film really sold it for me he was amazing in it,very compelling.
You need to see Foxcatcher. After I saw it, I never thought of Steve Carrell as an actor the same way again.
Says more about how uninformed you were about him as a actor
This mówię changed my opinion about Steve Carell. He did an amazing job in this movie. Real masterpiece. Thank you for this hard work. it’s been a real pleasure watching.
Agreed. I dislike most of his work, yet he was phenomenal in this movie. I actually prefer him in a serious role vs the 'funny' roles he plays.
He played him perfectly. Big respect to Steve as I just thought he was a comedy guy, great stuff.
Should have won an Oscar for this role.
Best performance from Carell.
That intimate scene with his wife when he finally breaks over his brother tears me up every time.
Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling treated us with some incredible performances in The Big Short. It's a pity how they've slid back to their typical "Steve Carrell" and "Ryan Gosling" roles ever since..
Luka Dacic there’s nothing wrong with a typical “Steve Carrell” role, he’s an incredibly funny actor
Such a great movie. I’ve watched it about four times over the past couple months...just to get a better grasp about what took place during the collapse. We had a business that succumbed to the recession and The Big Short gives some insight into what we weren’t seeing over that period of time...though I don’t know if understanding it at the time, would have changed the trajectory of the path we personally were traveling.
I truly feel 'The Big Short' and 'Foxcatcher' will be remembered as Steve Carrel's typebusting rôles. Just like Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 'Capote', and much else besides; Jim Carey in 'Man on the Moon'; and Robin Williams in both 'Insomnia' and 'One Hour Photo', he has learnt the art of 'stillness': instead of manic, crazy, performances, he found a way to be introspective; reign in his excesses; and create subtle, but utterly convincing, personae.
I hope to see more of him in dramatic rôles ... now he has broken free of his typecasting, he deserves to be able to extend his acting potental.
He's a fantastic dramatic actor too, but Michael Scott will probably always overshadow everything else he ever does, to a degree. I'm sure that Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Aniston can relate.
This is SUCH a GREAT film. It does a fantastic job telling the story of the real estate debacle in both an entertaining and informative way.
Carell made an amazing job on this role.. I had no idea that he is that good before I watched this movie...
You know Hollywood had to put Ryan gosling,Brad Pitt, Christian bale and Steve carell in for people to watch a movie about finance and they still wouldn't watch it.
Dude, this was best role I saw in last few years, good job Steve!
he looks like he's gonna steal your cab and insult you while speaking on the phone
One of my faves. The climax of that story is one of the most satisfying of any movie.
the housing market: I can't fail
oil barrel turns negative: Hold my beer
"I'm going to get moral redempion at the roulette table"
Almost all the main actors in this show kill it with the acting!
This movie is so great. What is sad is we are still living through the fallout of the subject this movie.
Carrell was unrecognizable. Brilliant performance!
Steve, your performance was as strong as Goslin's hair dye. Bravo!!!
You could tell from this interview that Farrell wasn’t just reading a script for this movie, he truly understands the ins and outs of the housing market collapse, the man truly did his research ✊
Movie is so good. I think Steve Carell is amazing in this movie and deserves an oscar for his performance.
Steve Carell....truly a versatile actor! Really underated by Hollywood! Hope he will win an Oscar someday.
who thinks this was best performance ?
i can only ever see Michael Scott doing things outside the office
great job michael, you're really working on your vocabulary
😂
I'm gonna get lynched for this, but you know what's amazing? How much more boring Carell is in interviews when talking about the book/crisis than the real Steve Eisman ("Mark Baum"), who is really interesting to listen to (there's some good interviews on youtube).
It's really a compliment to Carell as an actor, that could do such a fantastic job with this role, act it so impressively; when Carell himself is talking about these issues I don't believe for a second he actually understands the subject matter. I only believe he understood the movie script.
His performance in this film was excellent👍
Should have had an Oscar
They kicked the can down the road and we're about to catch up to it.
That can is going to be kicked over and over.
I wouldn't be too concerned about a "day of reckoning". We are probably going to simply have a long series of small reckonings. We started having them well in advance of the 2007-2008 melt down. The Russia defaults, the Long Term Capital melt down, the Greek debt crisis, the near failure of Social security under Ronald Reagan.
In the future we will have public pension shortfalls and issues in China and other developing nations.
@@howard5992 I fear Depression 2.0 is in our near future. This can has been kicked about as far as possible....They just papered over the first mess, instead of letting it fail and correct.....The derivatives market alone is terrifying, absolutely unbelievable. The repeal of Glass-Steagall shouldn't have happened.
MrLeonthepro bingo!
Howard how do you feel now?
Beau Peep you nailed it!
Great movie. 10/10 great characters and story.
...I've respected him before, I've known his range and capabilities, but in this video he's just a decent human being - and a true professional. I'm stunned by the fact, that he can be so thoughtful, so responsible and then so funny within the comedy realm.
If I'd be gay, I'd want to find a man like Steve Carell.
It’s like he’s doing interview again in the office
Feel like he should be in his Office of The Office rn.
Great movie Easley Steve Carells best performance
Steve Carell did a very good rule, to be honest i could not believe that this is Steve Carell , i said who the hell is that, a perfect actor, you should have win an OSCAR
This is a one of the few movie worth time to watch!
Steve Carell is such a great actor
Cant wait for the Sequel: The Bigest Short 2020
One reason this has folded into the background is it is difficult to follow. People have short attention spans and want a three word explanation. Not possible so it is now background noise...
I think that whist you’re supposed to like the Michael Berry character and Jamie and Charlie from Brownfield you’re not supposed to like Mark Baum initially but during the course of the film you begin to like him as he provides the conscience whist discovering the fraud going on in the American banks. It’s a great film.
The final scene where he's overlooking the city realizing he's about to essentially be paid with money from the american people for the banks, and how that tears him up that he is a part of the corruption whilst being apart. I love Steve Eisman because he's unapologetically ambitious but self conscious, steve carrell did an amazing job at doing that
finally, a member of the cast who ISN'T secretly brittish. Looking at you Bale
lol
Steve rocked that part, maybe it wasn't 100% accurate, but it was very enjoyable to watch
Damn Steve, I'm in love with him
Great movie, best I’ve seen it a while. Just found it the other day.
i think this movie is particularly appealing to asperger's folks. i watch it and watch it and watch it
So we have The Big Short now it's time for...
The Big Squeeze
Back in early 2008, the NPR show This American Life did a truly excellent episode called
Steve was amazing on this movie. Never really liked his stuff before but this was superb stuff......
he didn't read the book. If you read the book in the first chapter you will found that his character work in small firm as a equity analyst and he wrote about subprime first bubble. I am not native english speaker.
Brad Pitt tried out for Goslings character. Glad Brad got his current role as he did fantastic
Steven forgot his last phone call in the movie here 2:44
*Taxpayers first bailed out AIG, the insurance broker that the big banks used to cover their bets. THEN, taxpayers bailed out the banks themselves.* If you notice in the movie, there were clear markers and again, near the end of the movie, Steve's Team realize that the Crash should have begun but the market was being held up to wring out everyone EXCEPT the big banks.
In real life, after the double bailout from Taxpayers, the big banks paid their top brass huge bonuses. Like Steven said on the last phone call; "they knew" the banks knew.
I didn't realize that Steve Carell played Mark Baum...until i watch this
Great performance, as if he genuane became aware of what was going on.
Nice to see Steve out of character.
What he said at the end on the roof top about immigrants and poor people taking the hit for the crash was bang on the money. The billionaires never really lose out. They may lose a few million but overall they make far more from a crash than they lose out.
They drown out the plea as they shun the carnage of the sacrifices made by those that came before and doom the future of those who come after. Shame on us all. I am sure he had an Oscar in mind.
i bet steve can work in wall street now after shooting this movie
I was upset when Steve Carrell left the office, because I thought he left to do shitty movies like "Dinner with Schmucks," but then, this movie came along and made me okay with Steve leaving the office
at 0:50 you can hear the interviewers stomach growling in your left ear
super great movie.. loved it
Steve Carrell was great in this, but Red Letter Media was right when they said that he was just doing "Prison Mike" from The Office.
Carell killed it
They should do a sequel called the epic short squeeze, gamestonk
No thanks. Keep that shit
This story proves the Bible right that the LOVE of money, ie. Greed, ie. Selfishness is the root of all evil.
Poverty is the root of all evil
I play Mike Baum. He’s the complete opposite of Michael Scott.
Whats the name of the book and who is the author?
Why does he talk like he’s still Michael? I can’t help but see him in that way, the black cuts too...
was Marisa Tomei in this movie? when?
"Hey what's up Cynthia?"
Steve Carell describing me lmao
Great movie. Good book too. Michael Lewis wrote Boomerang also... a global perspective of the housing bubble deflation. The housing market still hasn't failed. People still have houses and they are still worth money. Market just made a big correction to almost what it should've been.
……..Only the prices of houses and most everything else have now been inflated by the money printed to get us out of this mess. Sound familiar?
Genius movie for the ages.
Funny this is recommended to me today, the day the FED announces their next plans for the last this year...I expect more cuts...
“Okay Steve, talk more nasally than you usually do and look distraught ALL THE TIME”
And I know what you're thinking - WTF is a synthetic CDO?
🧡💛💚💙 Why is Michael wearing that super tight suit to fit in with Ryan again
Steve Eisman (= Mark Baum) had done some investigation in subprime loans in the 90's - he was familiar with that.
Liked the movie. A lot of lessons. Liked the presentations too. I recall when this situation was presented on CBS' 60 Minutes. What surprised me that few if any bad guys went jail over this. Indeed they typically, according to what I recall 60 Minutes correctly, they got bonuses. Can't get too much stranger than that.
Real actor
Great cast
Proof that carrell ain’t just a comedy actor
I’m not sure the housing market bubble was originally intended to be a scam. Maybe a case of groundless finacial & social assumptions that put bankers and investors in a ruinous position that could only be rectified by malfeasance. Who knows
Michael did a great job
Michael Scots acting career really took off after leaving Dunder Mifflin
By waiting to sell so long at the end of the movie, did they end up making more money or less money? Than if they would have sold earlier.
Technically they would have made more - essentially they sold the securities back to the banks. They didn’t actually have to sell at all - instead they could have waited for the bonds to fail utterly and then try to collect on the default swap. In the film his people convince him to sell the default swaps back to the banks before that - arguing that if they wait any longer the banks will collapse and they’ll get nothing anyway.
No idea how accurate the films portrayal of this is, but holding longer almost certainly made them more - but waiting too long might mean he made so much on the trade that the banks couldn’t afford to pay.
@@maxparker4808 Steve Eisman (i.e. Mark Baum) explained in a conference that the issue with the credit default swaps (which was the instrument for their short position) was that you'd lose everything if the issuer also went bankrupt and many of them were hedged against each other making that a very real possibility. As for whether Steve would've made more money if he had closed his position later, I don't know. Probably, since his main ambition was to expose and correct the wrong, not to optimize winnings that were already more than he'll ever need.