FILM 1464: THE BIG SHORT
TRIVIA: After meeting with Dr.
Michael Burry, the character he would play in the movie, Christian Bale asked
to have Burry's cargo shorts and T-shirt, which he then wore in the movie. Bale
later said he hoped Burry would make it to the L.A. premiere, "because I
really want to sit next to him and see if he's going to punch me in the fucking
face."
Author Michael Lewis revealed in
an interview that Paramount, the studio distributing the film, allowed director
and screen writer Adam McKay
to make this film only if he agreed to make a sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
(2004).
The quotation that appears on
screen, "'Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.'
-Overheard at a Washington, D.C. bar" was in fact written by director and
co-writer Adam McKay after unsuccessfully searching for the perfect quotation
to use for that segment of the film.
Co-writer and director Adam McKay
said the studio was worried that the "heroes" of Michael Lewis's book
were flawed: "The studio was like, 'Shouldn't they be more likable?' It's
like, 'No, heroes are dirty. Martin Luther King had affairs. Gandhi was a bit
of a horndog. We're all dicks. Let them be dicks.' "
The cast includes three Oscar
winners (Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, and Marisa Tomei), and three
Oscar nominees (Steve Carell,
Ryan Gosling and Brad
Pitt). Pitt has an Oscar as a producer, but not as an actor.
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