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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6j7zru wrote

Reply to comment by Lost-Aardvark-7182 in Bulls: Shut up and take my money!! by CrackCody

It's not that good really. A lot of the writing was clearly written by someone who doesn't know anything about the subject matter and it makes the "professionals" look like idiots. Happens often in finance movies.

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Lost-Aardvark-7182 t1_j6j87q5 wrote

I mean yeah but i don’t really watch it for the realism it’s more for the ambience it evokes

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6j91wu wrote

Makes it unwatchable when one of the professionals is clueless about something basic.

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nsgarcia10 t1_j6joqf5 wrote

They do that because the audience is the ones that likely don’t know anything about finance.

It’s a way to exposition dump.

You’d lost 99% of your audience if you made it accurate

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ThatPizzaDeliveryGuy t1_j6jcbjv wrote

Haven't seen the movie, but wall street professionals being idiots seems pretty accurate to me

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6jdvlv wrote

You have a point. But it's a different kind of cluelessness.

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William_Dowling t1_j6jia4k wrote

As someone who's spent decades in board rooms like that I thought the exact opposite. Clearly someone who'd spent shitloads of time in that environment and needed to explain it in simple terms to non-pros. The head of Risk, Sales, Trading, the CEO, all spot on.

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WroughtenPS2 t1_j6jinte wrote

It was among the traders who should have understood risk, not talking about the CEO or the people who didn't necessarily have that expertise. I don't remember the exact moments from this movie, but one that always stands out for me as the epitome of Hollywood finance is in the Big Short when a trader doesn't know what a credit default swap is.

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adamzzz8 t1_j6jy32b wrote

But that's there just so the world famous chef Anthony Bourdain can explain it to the audience who actually have no idea what that is.

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