Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo talk Wall Street to Hollywood, comparisons to 'The Big Short,' the outrage after the credits, and more.
The Big Picture From director Craig Gillespie, Sony Pictures' Dumb Money is a comedy-drama showdown between Wall Street bigwigs and Reddit investors that's created a sizable buzz since its theatrical release due in large part to its ensemble cast and outrage surrounding the scandal at the heart of the film.
REBECCA ANGELO: I don't really understand it either, so if you learn and could tell us that would be great.ANGELO: He’s a mad genius. BLUM: In fact, people don’t even own the stocks they think they own, actually the DTCC does. But you know, that all sounds very wonky. The point being, the system is not transparent by design, and I think that's part of what has led to so much anger about the system being rigged. It's on Wall Street, it's also in Hollywood.
ANGELO: We have the college students, we have the GameStop employee who became an investor in the movement, and all of those character portraits were drawn from interviews that Lauren and I did in addition to what we read in Ben’s book.
I remember when all this was happening, and I'm curious of your opinion, do you think if the pandemic hadn't been happening, if you couldn't trade on your phone, a convergence of all these different things that made it so people were on Reddit and paying attention…? BLUM: Right. Who rented out an entire resort to move their firm down to Florida—Ken Griffin—and who’s stuck in their basement.No, 100%. I, while obviously not some savvy stock person, I had Robinhood, and it was after what happened with GameStop that I ditched that app because I was so angry at what they did.
ANGELO: And also, there aren't that many movies like this getting made, an adult drama with comedy. We say that the closest thing to a superhero cape in this movie is the red headband that Keith Gill wears, and so it's a miracle that this got made. And in order for it to get made, everybody had to take a pay cut. This wasn't some big streamer movie where everybody got a huge payday.
I'm from the New England area and I thought the depiction of Brockton and all that was great. My only complaint about the entire film is very important; the movie takes place in Brockton, but you do not have anyone drinking Dunkin’ Donuts.ANGELO: As a matter of fact, in the opening scene Keith Gill is on the subway, his leg is jiggling, and he has a Dunkin’ Donuts cup.
ANGELO: We also wanted it to feel like the experience of being on social media, so fast and choppy and propulsive and energetic, where you really get caught up in it. In order to do that, it's not, you know, seven-minute scenes, it's short scenes, and it's scenes where people who never met each other and never are in the same room, we have to show the way that community came together, the way they were bouncing off of each other, getting each other excited, confronting each other.
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