To show the animosity between Sarah and Jared, Demi Moore and Simon Baker tried to outrace each other during the scene where they are walking to the boardroom. Carla Gugino was attached for over a year to play Sarah Robertson, but had to withdraw last minute due to another project. Fortunately Demi Moore was able to join the project. Peter is a rocket scientist who is good in mathematics and ended up working on Wall Street because the money is good. It wasn't uncommon for a person of his expertise to work in a Wall Street firm at the time, according to writer-director J.
Simon Baker had done some research on his role by spending time with a few people on Wall Street, and his character is based upon one of those men, who happened to be a math genius and non-social - kind of how Baker plays it in the film. The scene where Will, Peter and Sam go up to the roof of the building at One Penn Plaza which is located in Midtown Manhattan does not have a helipad at all. Chandor thought it would be cool if it appeared that John Tuld's helicopter would be seen by them as they were up on the roof so the helicopter arrival was added in post-production.
Demi Moore and Simon Baker left the set immediately after wrapping the boardroom scene to catch their flights back home to Los Angeles, which was leaving New York only ninety minutes later. Penn Badgley spent all day working himself up for the scene in the bathroom where he is crying. The producers felt that the scene was a bit harsh that it would happen to his character and depicted on screen the way it finally appears in the film. Director J. Chandor had a week of filming with Irons planned but due to this, he had to cut it down to three, long grueling days in early July Directorial debut of J.
Simon Baker and Kevin Spacey previously appeared in L. Confidential The majority of the film takes place within the office of John Tould's company except for a few outside shots involving Peter, Seth, Will, Sam, Eric and Sarah. Spoilers The trivia items below may give away important plot points. Despite prominent billing, Mary McDonnell only appears in one scene at the end of the movie.
According to an interview by Business Insider with the screenwriter, unlike popular belief, the film is not portraying Lehman Brothers. Instead, the firm in question is still alive and well. The investment bank that got out of the financial crisis stronger than any other was Goldman Sachs, hence one could speculate that is the bank implied. Sam is the film's conscience for most of the film as he tries to save the jobs of the traders under his watch.
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Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Kevin Spacey's character, trading-floor boss Sam Rogers, almost gets to be heroic, but spends much of the film moping about his chocolate labrador no, not a golden retriever , which is slowly dying of incurable cancer.
It's best not to look too closely at this storyline in case the labrador turns out to be less the faithful hound, more a clunky metaphor for capitalism. Again, it is realistic that everyone in the film is slightly hopeless rather than being a fully-fledged hero or villain — but people being slightly hopeless isn't that thrilling to watch.
If there is a great movie to be made about the global financial crisis, Margin Call isn't quite it. Margin Call: all the spills of high-level corporate finance, but few thrills. Based on the collapse of Lehman Brothers during the financial meltdown of , this cautionary tale short-sells us on excitement.
A crowded conference room stands in for Agincourt. The tradeoff is made plain: sell this dodgy stuff and you save the firm. But know that your clients will never talk to you again. But J. And there is ample evidence from the crisis to lend credence to much of his oversimplified finger-pointing. In reality, dumping massive amounts of mortgage bonds in a heartbeat before everyone else had worked out they were toxic would have been nearly impossible. But the fictional dilemma is one worth considering — at least for the director it was.
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