Thread 214289123

So wtf was it?

>>214289123 (OP)
being first

>>214289123 (OP)
This movie sucked the Margin (of my) Ball(s)

>>214289219
It aint that bad

He had unmatched sigma aura

>>214289123 (OP)
nepotism

>>214289123 (OP)
he was jacked to the tits and had a fat bag of synthetic CDO's

He had a wonderful singing voice and knew at least 12 magic tricks

>>214289123 (OP)
>even though i'm in the world of finance for decades and know all the lingo necessary, explain this to me like a kid so that the audience can understand

>>214289904
why didnt he use margot robbie in a bubble bath?

his big ol' PP

He had a 4chan gold account

>>214289123 (OP)
the right cologne

1) brawn
2) gumption
3) hutzpah

>>214289123 (OP)
a little hat

>>214289123 (OP)
Je***h nepotism

It was boffa.

>>214290127
sticktoitiveness

Charisma

>>214289123 (OP)
He's acting silly because he can. Plus >>214289904

>>214289123 (OP)
Ruthlessness. The other lower level employees talk about it. They talk about the blonde 40-year old being a "kid" and a killer. And one guy whines it never happens to him, implying he's not ruthless enough.

>>214289123 (OP)
He married into it.

He's humble, which reflects his ability to adapt and always learn to be on top of the game.

>>214289123 (OP)
your legs sir

(((Something))) sure got him there

>>214291272
Ya got moxie, kid

It takes brass balls to sell derivatives

He’ll have to pay

>>214289123 (OP)
He got in at a time where you didnt have to be knowledgeable to get places

>>214289123 (OP)
>if you're the first one out the door, that's not called panicking
I love that line.

>>214289242
>>214289904
Maybe but things like ^ this for expo dumps made it harder to take seriously.

>>214289123 (OP)
He married his son

>>214289123 (OP)
Being a cut throat back when you could do some shit people wouldn't even dream about now a days. The money helped I'm sure but almost anyone that old in a position of power got there by fucking over a lot of other people in the process. Nepotism will only get you so far and back then it basically got you a job and that was it, you didn't have respect or power.

>>214293205
Bankers and investment company's always have the most fucked up history if you look back far enough
Even today they do a ton of fucked up shit. Look what Jane Street did in India recently and one of the founders funded a massive coup in South Sudan this year.
Every major company has similar stories and those are just the ones that became public knowledge

>>214293169
> The numbers dont add up anymore
> 1 + 1 no longer makes two
I know what you mean but this is how all movies are when they have to deal with something most people dont understand.

>>214289904
>>214293169
It's not an expo dump for the audience, this is the last act, you as the audience should know what the problem is by now. What this scene is doing is explaining the problem to the other board members in a way that will make it easier for them to come around to the John's plan of basically nuking the market to survive. Both the John and Jared know it's their only option but they need to be able sell the idea to the board who, up until tonight, didn't realize there was a problem this severe

>>214289123 (OP)
the ability to repeatedly get his way and controlling others via beacoup charisma and manipulation. like all corporate execs

>>214289123 (OP)
i actually worked in finance before, the wall street shark stereoty is 100% true. I literally witness a handshake battle once, where two senior level guys shook hands and keep going for like 10 seconds because you could tell they were sizing each other up, it was weird. Also one of them hated his wife and the other was fucking his secretary (he was married). Both had a lot of money. Just a weird environment, left it for software engineering, there are big egos there too but computer nerds are 100 times easier to get along with.

Also the whole thing is changing, when i left there was a small team of quant guys, who really did not fit in with the rest of wall street types, but all the senior level people were kind of freaked out by them because of how much faster their algorithms did stuff. No connections, no meetings, no 2am drunk with clients at a club, no golf while drinking whiskey and trying to fuck the cart girl. Just a computer silently crunching numbers while the quant guys talk about Overwatch. Investment proposals that would take a week took hours at most. Just a complete 180.

>>214289123 (OP)
He was lying, moron. He was doing all of them. He was first, he used his brains and he cheated.

>>214293850
>he cheated
He didn't cheat. He was selling to willing buyers at the fair market price.

>>214289904
There are small hints that the head executives knew what they were doing had major risks. Tuld had a good grasp of what's going on but he put on a show to give himself plausible deniability. He also gets Jared to say what to do and gives some resistance even though he knows selling it is the only way.

>>214289123 (OP)
the movie makes it clear he's a wolf in sheep's clothing

>>214293327
>It's not an expo dump for the audience
yes, it is

>>214293327
>this is the last act, you as the audience should know what the problem is by now
Just outed yourself as never having watched the movie. This happens at 45 min. The movie lasts 2 hours

>>214293276
>Bankers and investment company's always have the most fucked up history if you look back far enough
Roosevelt famously prohibited bankers from attending New Deal negotiations. Those were the days.

>>214289123 (OP)
I fucking love Manhattan office kino.

>>214289123 (OP)
Ruthlessness.

>>214289123 (OP)
Brains. Plus character (ruthlessness, etc). Plus probably a bit of background (right family, right school, right friends, right connections) plus a bit (a lot) of luck.

Why is everyone assuming that because he says X, X is true?

He's clearly just being disarming and semi-jokey to put the lowly guy at his ease. He's not really suggesting he's stupid.

Also to some extent it's a power move. Most executives (the Demi Moore types) are so desperately jockeying for power they would never, even in jest, suggest they were stupid or weak. He's so powerful he can get away with it, because everyone knows he's top dog.