In terms of quality of acting this is the greatest cast ever assembled. I became a huge fan of Simon Baker and i saw him for the first time here. Its sad that hollywood doesnt cast him anymore in big projects. The most underrated actor in the world for me.
He has returned to Australia to Produce and star in a historical film showing the white war on the Aboriginal inhabitants...and their war like response, often under reported.
paul bettany being honest that we're all complicit in the same scheme and we shouldn't point fingers, coz we would most likely behave exactly the same way in the position of those people portrayed in the movie. after all, he summarized this in one of the scenes in the movie too.
He's spot on..... Look at how politicians are today. I suspect the majority went into it with the right intent for the good of the people. Opinions will vary on that but far and wide once you drink the koolaid it's only a matter of time before most will do thing they would have not done consciously prior to gaining power and money. It is a hard to judge some things when you have never walked in their shoes.... Wish I had seen this when it first came out.....
He is way too apologetic. The Jeremy Irons character put it absolutely right. There should be no shame in doing what they did. The only real losses is the loss of credibility, which will cost, which hurts every kind of business. That's what one must focus on. Not the starving dogs.
Survival of the more fit? A clever and subtle film. Fine pacing. And a few jokes along the way. Not to mention more than a few financial lessons. Its somewhat more humorful counterpart, 'The Big Short,' had an even sharper edge on it, if that's possible.
Capitalism can be done with a conscience. It isn't always, but it can be. And by some people it is. The contractor who built the Panama Canal, I believe his name was Letourneau, made huge money and kept 10% and donated 90% of his income.
Paul I don't know about that. A plumber making a good living and these people giving loans to people they know can't afford them are 2 entirely different things. I do point fingers at them.
A brilliant film, & yes, it's Mamet & Wilde, at it's very best. ------Absurdist to a degree I've not seen in film in a long time.----------------WolfSky9
I love the use of the windows as a space for thinking. When Matthew McConaughey gets up and he goes to the window, he hast to make a decision. When Jeremy Irons gets up and goes to the window, he hast to make a decision. It’s fascinating to see when the decisions were made by each person in the chain.
This whole film was a clinic on acting. The only one who didn't fit was Demi Moore. She's talented and been in some great stuff over the years, but I just think she was miscast in this one. Slight blemish on an otherwise great film.
@@cz2165 Andrea Parker is my #1 choice for any dark female chatacter. Eva Green would have been my #2, and I think her European accent would have added more intrigue to the character.
J C Chandor understands what's been happening that crashed not just the economy, but the whole society, in 2008. It can't be fixed. It happened again in 2019, and the pandemic is being used to cover it up this time. Marketing and finance have their value, but not when they eat the society from within. John Maynard Keynes called for the euthanasia of the rentier sector in his classic work of the 1930s, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money», and everyone should have listened. Its minions don't make anything but diseconomy. It's a toss-up as to which pathology is bringing down the country faster: psychopathy or sub-optimization.
Why don't people (Bettany) try to learn what capitalism is before condemning it? Same old, same old. Pointing to a mixed economy and attributing the blame to capitalism. So they become racked with guilt because they have wealth, and then publicly lean (or jump) into socialism as a form of repentance. And virtue signalling of course. To that extent, actors and "liberals" are deplorable.
Because they are actors, they don't have a clue. For them, socialism looks "more human" than capitalism, on paper. So they want to portray themselves as good people and gain public approval.
@@ruslang5545 Capitalism is voluntary trade, exchanging value for value. If there is coercion then it's not voluntary. This is something that takes place everyday between individuals. A requirement of capitalism is individual failure as well as success. If in the freedom to create wealth that one will hope to trade, things do not quite work out, and the material goods/service one hoped to trade isn't in demand, then the freedom to try also becomes the freedom to fail - hardly utopia in any sense of "a perfect society" . But that's the beauty of it. There is no centralized control of society, because each man in sovereign, with The Limited Role of Government to protect the above only. An example of a stolen concept is FTA. Governments have Free Trade Agreements. Governments have no moral business in Trade. Such an FTA is an Anti-FTA by default.
In terms of quality of acting this is the greatest cast ever assembled. I became a huge fan of Simon Baker and i saw him for the first time here. Its sad that hollywood doesnt cast him anymore in big projects. The most underrated actor in the world for me.
He has returned to Australia to Produce and star in a historical film showing the white war on the Aboriginal inhabitants...and their war like response, often under reported.
The film director can talk w o saying
You know.
But we don’t know. That’s why we are listening here
"Those people need to be out making something" I couldn't agree more with that statement and the cost to our society that they are not is tragic .
Great interview raising very human ideas. Subjects like this are usually avoided by the mainstream media, unfortunately.
paul bettany being honest that we're all complicit in the same scheme and we shouldn't point fingers, coz we would most likely behave exactly the same way in the position of those people portrayed in the movie. after all, he summarized this in one of the scenes in the movie too.
He's spot on..... Look at how politicians are today. I suspect the majority went into it with the right intent for the good of the people. Opinions will vary on that but far and wide once you drink the koolaid it's only a matter of time before most will do thing they would have not done consciously prior to gaining power and money. It is a hard to judge some things when you have never walked in their shoes.... Wish I had seen this when it first came out.....
He is way too apologetic. The Jeremy Irons character put it absolutely right. There should be no shame in doing what they did. The only real losses is the loss of credibility, which will cost, which hurts every kind of business. That's what one must focus on. Not the starving dogs.
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That's exactly what Will Emerson also said in the car scene.
Survival of the more fit? A clever and subtle film. Fine pacing. And a few jokes along the way. Not to mention more than a few financial lessons. Its somewhat more humorful counterpart, 'The Big Short,' had an even sharper edge on it, if that's possible.
This director now needs to do one on insider trading and congress.
Cannot say enough good things about this movie!
I miss Kevin so much… could listen to him all day.
No extras interviewed
Excellent movie .
Capitalism can be done with a conscience. It isn't always, but it can be. And by some people it is. The contractor who built the Panama Canal, I believe his name was Letourneau, made huge money and kept 10% and donated 90% of his income.
They haven't read 'Economics in one lesson'.
Paul I don't know about that. A plumber making a good living and these people giving loans to people they know can't afford them are 2 entirely different things. I do point fingers at them.
The point is that inadequate regulations are the problem, not individuals taking advantage of them (wouldn’t you?).
A brilliant film, & yes, it's Mamet & Wilde, at it's very best. ------Absurdist to a degree I've not seen in film in a long time.----------------WolfSky9
The story was a tragedy to a certain extent ? They all lost their careers and were done in stock market employment.
As they exited that single day with $2.7M - that’s $270k a year for ten years to find something new.
I love the use of the windows as a space for thinking. When Matthew McConaughey gets up and he goes to the window, he hast to make a decision. When Jeremy Irons gets up and goes to the window, he hast to make a decision. It’s fascinating to see when the decisions were made by each person in the chain.
Mathew McConaughey was not in this film
Will is honest (he acknowledges that he is using/benefiting from capitalism; which is not actually bad).
great
This whole film was a clinic on acting. The only one who didn't fit was Demi Moore. She's talented and been in some great stuff over the years, but I just think she was miscast in this one. Slight blemish on an otherwise great film.
Who do you think should have been cast? It had to be someone in their 40’s or older, to be true to the character. Suggestions?
Jennifer Connolly.
@@cz2165 Andrea Parker is my #1 choice for any dark female chatacter. Eva Green would have been my #2, and I think her European accent would have added more intrigue to the character.
J C Chandor understands what's been happening that crashed not just the economy, but the whole society, in 2008. It can't be fixed. It happened again in 2019, and the pandemic is being used to cover it up this time. Marketing and finance have their value, but not when they eat the society from within. John Maynard Keynes called for the euthanasia of the rentier sector in his classic work of the 1930s, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money», and everyone should have listened. Its minions don't make anything but diseconomy. It's a toss-up as to which pathology is bringing down the country faster: psychopathy or sub-optimization.
incentives always trump ethics...Steve Eisman
Why don't people (Bettany) try to learn what capitalism is before condemning it? Same old, same old. Pointing to a mixed economy and attributing the blame to capitalism. So they become racked with guilt because they have wealth, and then publicly lean (or jump) into socialism as a form of repentance. And virtue signalling of course. To that extent, actors and "liberals" are deplorable.
I don't recall him mentioning socialism at all but merely critiquing the system we are all caught up in.
That's this Woke, left-liberal agenda. Crap on capitalism.
Because they are actors, they don't have a clue. For them, socialism looks "more human" than capitalism, on paper. So they want to portray themselves as good people and gain public approval.
You tell us what capitalism is and where it's applied. I'll give you a clue, nowhere. It's as utopian as communism
@@ruslang5545 Capitalism is voluntary trade, exchanging value for value. If there is coercion then it's not voluntary. This is something that takes place everyday between individuals. A requirement of capitalism is individual failure as well as success. If in the freedom to create wealth that one will hope to trade, things do not quite work out, and the material goods/service one hoped to trade isn't in demand, then the freedom to try also becomes the freedom to fail - hardly utopia in any sense of "a perfect society" . But that's the beauty of it. There is no centralized control of society, because each man in sovereign, with The Limited Role of Government to protect the above only.
An example of a stolen concept is FTA.
Governments have Free Trade Agreements.
Governments have no moral business in Trade. Such an FTA is an Anti-FTA by default.
The incredible amount of ignorance of economics by these actors. oof
Paul Bettany has a great perspective on capitalism. Capitalism is voracious and selective. I know...I'm a fervent capitalist.