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Hollywood Cashes in on Wall Street’s Woes
Hollywood Cashes in on Wall Street’s Troubles. I have done many things in my life: hedge fund manager, pilot, cowboy, journalist, stock broker, mountain climber, translator, guide, etc, etc. etc. Now add technical consultant to Hollywood to the list. According to the New York Times, Simon Baker, star of the TV show “The Mentalist”, is using the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader as a resource to humanize Wall Street traders in the upcoming film entitled “Margin Call” (click here for the link at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/media/12film.html?_r=1&src=busln&scp=2&sq=mad%20hedge%20fund%20trader&st=cse ).
This is not an easy task, as the public generally considerers denizens of the pit as greedy, soulless, money grubbing monsters, difficult to empathize with in any setting. The star studded thriller includes Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, and Jeremy Irons, and will focus on a 24 hour period during the height of the financial crisis at a fictional Wall Street bank.
No doubt, the producers are hoping to cash in on the imminent release of Oliver Stone’s sequel to the classic film, Wall Street. As with the last film, the great industry guessing game will be identifying who and which institutions in real life are being portrayed. How much do you want to bet that the troubled bank starts with the letter “L”.
Watch for film crews framing those dark, foreboding shots in the canyons of downtown Manhattan this summer. Release is expected next year. This, I must see. Hey Kevin, baby, have your people call my people and let’s do lunch!
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Maybe we can get Oprah to write a financial column?
A more appropriate title should be Atlas Shagged!!!
Looks interesting GF but release date is not until 2011, what's the point here?
But not one of you fucks are bitchin about this
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/
Atlas ShruggedTagline: Who is John Galt?
Atlas Shrugged
Tagline: Who is John Galt?
his most recent incarnation was alan greenspan and we all know how that turned out....
"L" word, are we talking Lesbians?
Is it just me or does it speak volumes when an actor realies on anything for source material? Especially considering when you look at the accuracy of Hollywood movies.
If any Hollywood executive reads this, contact me for a script that will blow your mind!
(I am dead serious)
Leo,
Your not dead, (and nobody takes you serious).
My Big Fat Greek Bailout ?
I kid.
I kid because I love.
LOL, that movie has already been made and it received two thumbs down on ZH!
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Good luck Leo.
My avatar might help.
http://www.madhedgefundtrader.com/
Unadulterated horseshit.
Opinions are like arseholes, most have one, your comments earned you a second...foch U
I think you mean "Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one"
Enjoy yours.
Bend over for me big boy!!! I will partake in that pleasure...
I have nothing to say but every poster above got junked so I decided to post.
edit: I agree with Lord Wellington
Actually, I happen to agree with him. Madhedgefundtrader writes so many trashy articles I can't keep up with them all. It's all really just utter crap.
#1... Crap it is.
I concur.
Absolutely, the man has elevated drivel to an art form. He must be proud to know so little about so much.
I don't read his blog, I just read what he contributes here on ZH and the visuals make me laugh...
This is a long shot.
As thrilling as real P&L trading and market action is it's almost impossible to convey in a way that outsiders and passive observers can get into. Even desperate, frenzied trading on the pit/floor (which is mostly gone now anyway) just comes across as a bunch of guys jumping up and down and yelling. Modern, high-tech trading floors and gear look cool but then what? a bunch of dramatic shots of numbers on screens turning into other numbers on screens while red faced traders yell unintelligible shorthand and lingo into the phone: "950 comes at 40, you care?-I IM'd him, he's...-IM him again-will this clean him up?-no, different guy. Oh boy, pass the popcorn. Or, if you really want to make it cuttig edge just have a steady shot of giant, co-located HFT servers heating up with smokin' high volume action!
It seems like if action and insider fast talk work for medical dramas it should be able to work in a finance drama too but at the end of the day it's just easier for the audience to empathize when a human life is at stake rather than numbers or a pile of money.
The 80's 'Wall St.' movie worked because it was really about the human dramas surrounding a cut-throat empire builder, the seduction of the neophyte, the human costs of the spoils of war and appealing characters (or whatever). There wasn't really anything that relied on fast paced trading/market drama. If the MadHedgeFundTrader movie can pull off something like that great but successfully dramatizing trading and market dynamics (Margin Call?) may be next to impossible.
The way to go of course is comedy. Just think of all the great movies that use some kind of money/financial/strike-it-rich scheme as a spring board for madcap laughs and high jinx. Of course the gold standard in the particular area in question is Trading Places which actually does also do a decent job with the little bit of market drama depicted. It also has the advantage of the template of the classic Broadway musical My Fair Lady.
So, I'd sooner bet on a new, up-to-date Wall Street comedy becoming a hit -or breaking even- than a dramatization of the Bear/Lehman story but of course we aren't quite there yet are we?
LOOKIN' GOOD BILLY-RAY!
FEELING GOOD LEWIS!
Pure horseshit.
How about a movie called "Potemkinville". All show and no go.
Perfect setting would be the streets in front of the FedRev building.
Before it's burned to the ground.
Madness for all you do...this one's for you:
From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
http://sirfcinema.com/tag/charles-morris
Pilot.... I'm betting hot air ballon...
QED http://www.zerohedge.com/article/what-bond-market-really-telling-us
{been a long time since Ive seen a post ripped apart so definitvely}
Who will play Tyler Durden?
....and Marla?
Demi Moore?
Thought she was dead.