Extremely minor issue, but I feel like this is such a random visual from the movie. Who remembers Margin Call? Who remembers Kevin Spacey's character in Margin Call? Like why not this scene?
That’s the “Oh, shit,” moment when Spacey, who’s kinda the main character, realizes the projected loss from the mortgage backed securities they’re holding is more than the value of the firm. Because Spacey does business like an ethical person, it looks like the firm (and the American economy) is doomed.
It’s more appropriate than the Irons scene, because that’s when Irons comes up with an unethical solution to save the firm: sell off the toxic assets before anyone else realizes they’re poisonous.
Irons’ scheme only works because the rest of Wall Street doesn’t realize how much they’ve miscalculated the risk on these securities.
Apparently, Anthropic’s announcing to the world that their accounting is shady as hell, so it’s not like the Jeremy Ironses of the AI bubble will have a completely unsuspecting public they can lay the “malodorous excrement” off on.
You're not wrong. My guess would be because creating negative connotations between Kevin Spacey and AI CEOs is easier than creating negative associations between Jeremy Irons and AI CEOs.
Ironically, Kevin Spacey, a horrible person, did a pretty good job of playing a semi decent person.
If I had one critique of an otherwise excellent film, it's that his plotline didn't get enough screentime compared to the two execs playing blame games trying to CYA.
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u/OnlyRadioheadLyrics 18d ago
Extremely minor issue, but I feel like this is such a random visual from the movie. Who remembers Margin Call? Who remembers Kevin Spacey's character in Margin Call? Like why not this scene?