A dramatic retelling of the 2007-8 financial crisis reveals a riveting world of chaos,corruption and misfitsUnlike the slick suits and killer sheen of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, this is a world of chaos and disorderOne of the strangest elements of Anchorman director Adam McKay’s goofy 2010 comedy The Other Guys was the inclusion of some credit sequence infographics approximately corporate fraud and capitalist corruption that seemed to have been crowbarred in from another film. It now transpires that McKay, or a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire,viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the film when he first read Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007-8.
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Source: theguardian.com