If you liked this I would highly recommend “Conspiracy” also.

@@kalebnegussie8140 Just checked Imdb, and there looks to be a series, a couple of movies and a documentary. If you can let me know which, I'll absolutely check it out. Thanks in advance.

Last man on earth and 12 angry men are also similar in production

@@chrismason7066 I have a copy of 12 Angry Men, and agree it's a cracking film. Don't think I've seen Last Man on Earth though, if it's the one with Vincent Price that is.

The thing that proves your point to me is that was a 10 minute video and it felt like a 3 minute video. I've seen the film before but I must have watched scenes from it on YT so many times over.

Man is sitting far end of the table from the boss for a reason. When they say Money can get you a lot of things, they are talking about men like Carmello.

"It's done." Carmello was a made man in another life.

He knew where to find the shinebox Eric was hiding in.

Carmelo with just one L. It's an italian name (mainly common in Sicily)

Carmello was a made man and the MBS products and Eric Dale were not. They had to go. The financial world had to sit there and take it like good, little schmucks.

Didn't know this! its a great film, if I was an actor i would choose the great scripts over £££

That's really impressive, i guess this movie shows what good dialogue combined with fantastic actors alone can do for a movie.

@@TehIdiotOne agreed! However in this day of age is few and far between

Quinto is freaking amazing.

I think most of the actors was told by phone call for a "Margin Calls" meeting, sat in this room, and they thought it was a literally a margin meeting.

Although I also cannot believe that ceo wouldn't be informed in advance of such a meeting, but from storytelling perspective it's consistent to assume that he didn't know. Do you have any arguments which are based on the movie?

He knew the first day that it could end that way, but there was so much money to do, plus, he would have been fired for not doing it !

Tulda knew from "weeks ago" that things were slipping and is not happy with the bopsie twins. Sullivan just brought it all home and the time to act is now.

@@decore1036 i think based on the way he plays it he does know. he plays dumber than he is, which since everyone in the room knows hes not dumb he's saying no bullshitting or trying to put a better face on things than they are. he wants to get the words "we're fucked" out of his board because thats what he already thinks. if he was learning of this stuff just now, after hearing the guys explanation, he would be going around the room trying to get a better prognosis out of anyone

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I can feel it itching all over.

@@alexn4255 Charles Schwab here.

There's a bunch of quick cuts where it's just facial reactions. Demi Moore's was terrific. If I had more time, I bet there's a significance of who's face was shown during which part of the scene.

Yeah. It's almost distasteful how obvious that is, that it essentially breaks the 4th wall.

​@@daddyinacaddy Actually, I just noticed it now because of @Chrishagen's comment. When the CEO says, "It wasn't brains that got me here," it gives me goosebumps.

and other key members of the board in attendance.

And that is terrible adam mckay writing

Sure, this is partially an exposition, but the scene is accurate. In my experience CEOs are not the smartest guys of the company, but the ones who wanted money, postion and power the most. And they do like simplified things. But yeah, they're not like golden retrievers, more like chihuahuas.

Jeremy Irons is a damned good actor.

Except for Demi Moore who could be out-acted by a wooden pallet.

@@FredSanford2003 I don’t agree. She played her part very well. She acts as someone in the character’s position would‘ve behaved in this type of setting

@@almasjezovski8867 I agree. She comes across as someone who was promoted too much intentionally to be the one whose job is to not get too nosy as everyone gets rich. When things go wrong they can easily cast blame when all along she didn't have the skills necessary for her position in the first place.

Facts

It could also be Spacey's character realizes that whether Tuld does this or not, it doesnt matter. theyre all fucked

his first film and his last good film, lol

My only nitpick is it's 4AM, and no coffee or eye bags in sight

Investment banks have former NYC detectives and FBI agents in their security teams for a reason. Why Carmelo was in a board meeting is another issue...

Of course he was confident, Carmello can apparently teleport in and out of chairs instantaneously.

That showed me Tuld only hired the very best when it came to those in his inner circle.

It wasn't brains that got he there.

Pulp Fiction was amazing

He knew all along smh

Then the last scene he's like it's just money 😂 he's enjoying private full course meal while millions of Americans lost their pensions, homes, jobs etc.

"I'm dumb and don't understand risk assessment so speak to me like a child" Also "I hold the highest rank in the company because I am incredible at risk assessment"

And BTW if he's so good at "hearing the music" then why did he need a bunch of grunt workers to figure this out for him?

@@yourenviousenemy Captain makes decisions based on the information given to him by the grunts. Yeah they figured out that there's a problem, but they don't know how to deal with it corectly.

Well I'm pretty sure he was 100% aware of everything that was going on - as was everyone of the senior partners. They all knew but nobody wanted to stop the music, they all wanted to keel the party going. Maybe Eric Dale was fired by Sarah Robertson because he started to look where he should not have - and when Peter Sullivan continued his research (without telling anyone!) and finally told his colleague and boss how dire the situation was, they simply acted like they didn't know anything about it. This meeting was definitely not to inform them of what was going on, they knew. This was just to tell them that it's over.

photographer85 really covered this, but while I understand what you're saying you can see throughout the film that Tuld knew what was coming the whole time. He practically engineered this. The firm profited massively from its extensively leveraged MBS position, and then he jumped out in front of everyone else to bail out of the situation and destroyed thousands of careers along the way. He's not a leader so much as a profiteer, so while you can admire his capability to get others to do what he wants, you'd have to watch out for the knife in your back the whole time even if you think he's on your side.

I just think the irony at 1:19 where he claims "it wasn't brains, that got me here," but as Scar he asserts that "When it comes to Brains, I got the Lion's share." in the case of both movies, His character is seeking ways to attain additional power; political power in one, and monetary power in the other.

Basically an employer telling their employee “I never told you because you never asked”

It’s called being a psychopath

I also love that his response to Sam asking "Do you?" is so much different than Jared's. Same exact question after they say they understand and very different responses.

That’s not at all what he is getting upset about lol

I would've loved 5 mins of them going back and forth with: do you?, do YOU? DO YOU? DOOO YOUUU???

Ironic, since he states 1:19 that "it wasn't brains, that got me here I assure you," but as Scar he asserts "when it comes to Brains, I got the *Lion's Share."*

Long live the king

And another movie about the other ... "problems" ... that Carmello solves in the course of a regular work week.

He's his coke dealer.

😂

You have to wonder what kind of evil Carmelo is capable of doing or has done in this role. The certitude he exhibits is just overwhelming. He has no idea if this guy hopped a plane to Hawaii after being fired or got on a cruise and is in the middle of the ocean.... "It's done."

"It's done." Most unsettling line in any movie I can remember... leaves everything to your imagination.

​@@PittsburghAfterDarkYes, most of the time it is empty BS from empty characters.

I used to work for a tech firm. Small, but still multi-national. They managed to weasel themselves in bed with a moderately sized tech firm who, in turn, was able to syphon work from a top three tech firm (yes, I was a sub, sub, sub contractor). Things were going well right up to the point where it wasn't. The direct company I worked for started missing pay days. I don't know all the details, but they eventually called up all the 'senior' techs in the company (for which I was one with a whopping two years experience at this point) to let us know things were bad and were getting worse. On the line was the CEO of the small company and about twenty or so techs spread throughout the world. He's giving this heartfelt speech about how much we mean to him and how long he's been running this company. It was touching. He finally told us our two options were to move to where his company was homebased and we could all circle the wagons to find a new contract together, or we'd all be let go -- our time on the contract had ended. Here's the twist... about two hours before our call, the CEO of the moderately sized company had contacted each site individually, offered (nearly) every tech a job in their company, and in one stroke, backstabbed the smaller company into oblivion.

kzfaq.info/sun/PL9zxs3q5Pa-nnPxInl3cy4r-N4LNuCEac Here is a KZfaq playlist with the " do you This is it.I'm telling you This is it!! " in a video and another video with only "I'm telling you This is it!".

Yeah, that's called being old and in the firm forever. It's a strange bur common thing for old hands to be technically outranked by younger hotshots (sometimes you're constantly skipped over for promotion, sometimes you do everything you can to avoid it), but when you've been around that long the hierarchy becomes pretty meaningless to you, in every way except money. Your age and experience doesn't make you safe, they'll ditch you in a second if they think it'll save them even a single dime, but by that point you've long since stopped caring. You've become fearless, not out of bravery, but because you have nothing left to lose. Plus you've probably collected enough dirt over the years to bury the entire company if you wanted to, and they know it (which is why they're so desperate to get Eric Dale back in the building - no loose ends), but again you probably just don't care enough to bother. The fact is that it takes a certain type of person to get to the top of the pyramid, and like the man says it's not brains. The real reason that most of us don't get there is not because we lack the skill, it's because we'd rather sleep with a clear conscience.

​@@HomerSlatedAlso a lot of luck. There is plenty of people who have the brains (it does take brains to be in high finance) but it is very hard to even get a job at these firms very selective and a lot of nepotism.

wow shocking he wasn't

Also, to ensure that Sullivan understands the issue at a fundamental level and so should take him seriously. And, of course, for the audience.

As someone else said, it’s for the benefit of the audience to grasp what’s happening. The people in the room would be two steps ahead-as in any profession when you’re competent enough to get to the top.

It's for the audience

It’ll be made into a comic book movie

How's that?

It'll be another movie with an Jeremy Irons walking into a boardroom, with Zachary Quinto's character sitting in the Kevin Spacey chair, and Simon Baker as well. Everyone's older and Jeremy Irons goes "well, it happened again...."

@@mattd687 more like “we got um again!”

Locked prices at below e 3%, those ppl are not selling, 7% rates and expensive prices, ppl are not buying, not happening

Because their worlds aren't ending. They are not the ones who will suffer. Even Demi will get a nice golden parachute when they make her 'fall on her sword'

And everyone was dressed for work.

you are forgetting about spaceballs, the whole movie is a masterpiece

@Jay-walking.Again. There’s a difference between knowing he’s aboard and actually being on set for him for the first time.

And probably a psychopath considering what he does and his charisma.

@@CyrilSneer123 like most of the billionaires aren't... look at mark zukerberg or elon musk...

Selling to willing buyers at the current market price. More like selling to suckers.

@@mf5202 people bought their stocks by believing in their words and trust! On that day when Goldman sachs unloaded all their assets in such a way, they had broken that with those people they dealt with but became partners with so many new clients in following years. In the business of money, looks like no one is to be trusted..!

Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered

The economy collapse was inevitable, their concern was that their counterparts will blacklist them for knowingly selling them worthless assets. Its like saving yourself and accept the irreversible backlash afterwards.

Billion not million