Tonight on Netflix: Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Steve Carell in the same movie!

Tonight on Netflix: Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Steve Carell in the same movie!

A caustic comedy about the subprime financial crisis that rocked the subprime mortgage sector in the United States? It is possible! In 2015, American director Adam McKay succeeded in this daring bet with the brilliant film The Big Short: The Heist of the Century, led by a magic quartet consisting of Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Steve Carell.

Available on Netflix, The Big Short: The Heist of the Century, the big screen adaptation of the bestseller The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, tells the story of how four outsiders, who took advantage of the general blindness of big banks, the media and the government, waited for the financial bubble to burst. their goal? Pull off the heist of the century by betting against the banks.

With his book, the novelist Michael Lewis, to whom we also owe the work Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game who inspired the movie “The Strategist” is interested not in investors who lost a lot after the subprime crisis, but in a few anti-social geeks who bet on the historic failure of the real estate market in the United States.

“They turned the heist of the century from a magazine article into an investigative book”– says Michael Lewis. “The guys who were betting against the banks and making fortunes – those were the people I was interested in.”

This behind-the-scenes look at the economic crisis immediately appealed to the director Adam McKaySo far limited to a register of pure comedy (Ricky Bob: King of the Chart, Brothers, Despite Them…). “I started reading one evening, around 10:30 p.m., thinking, ‘I’m going to read 40 pages.'”he declares. “I couldn’t put the book down, I finished it early in the morning.”

“The next day I talk about it in detail with my wife, telling her about the characters and how the book ties together all these different stories”The man who just signed Don’t Look Up: Cosmic Denial to Netflix continues. “I explain to him that this is a get-rich-quick story, but against the backdrop of the collapse of the banking system, a story of corruption and rampant complacency, funny and disturbing at the same time…”

Produced by Brad Pitt’s company Plan B (which also produced The Strategist, another Michael Lewis adaptation), The Big Short is a film that proves you can laugh at a subject that doesn’t a priori lend itself to humor. An original, lively work that happily tackles the absurd and the cynical, and features four Hollywood megastars hilariously writing. Go to Netflix to discover it.

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Source: Allocine

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