Michael Burry played by Christian Bale is the sole character in the film whose name as well as the character wasn’t changed from its real-life counterpart.
On screen, Gosling’s version of Lippmann is simultaneously intolerable as well as humorous and witty, often breaking the fourth wall and addressing the validity and stupidity of certain scenes to the audience. In recent times, Lippmann is less anxious to find the next big short because they are rare and many trades that appear to have understated asymmetric risk, turn out to be unprofitable. LibreMax has been investing in commercial mortgage securities, collateralized loan obligations, and student-loan investments. The US housing market has since recovered, however, and LibreMax’s holdings of residential mortgage securities have shrunk from about 80 percent of its portfolio to 20 percent. The finance magnate co-founded an asset management firm called LibreMax Partners which specialized in structured products with Brettschneider and is its Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager. Although Lippmann stayed out of the spotlight, he certainly isn’t out of the game. In February 2010, he announced that he would be joining a hedge fund started by Fred Brettschneider, formerly Deutsche Bank’s head of global markets. In real life, Greg Lippmann, while working as global head of asset-backed security trading at Deutsche Bank, helped devise the mechanism that was used to bet against subprime mortgage debt until he left in April 2010 and was succeeded by Pius Sprenger. Given that Lippmann clearly respects his privacy, one could say that it was diplomatic of him to be involved with the film production to the extent that he was. “I look forward to being anonymous again,” he said. In a 2010 interview, Lippmann told Observer that he was keen to go back to living his life without being famous. And he was helpful in sort of adding flavor to the character so that he wasn’t just a narrator…”. He understood the character was loosely based on him, and his purpose in the film was to educate the audience on the overall story. Gosling told Vulture, “He was very helpful, in a way, in the sort of helping me to understand as much as is possible the sort of financial lay of the land at the time. Gosling met with Lippmann to get a feel for the character of Jared and understand his mannerisms and language.
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Lippmann agreed to his story’s involvement in the movie but asked the director to change his name as his character in the movie is portrayed as less than lovable. In the film, Vennett is portrayed as an egotistical and highly vain person and serves as a narrator throughout the movie. The character of Jared is actually based on a real person, Greg Lippmann.
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His physical transformation into this character includes a wig and a paler than usual skin tone and has been a source of amusement for the media. Ryan Gosling played the role of Jared Vennett in the film. Young investors Charlie Geller and Jamie Shipley by mistake discover a prospectus by Vennett, convincing them to invest in the swaps as it fits their strategy of buying cheap insurance with big potential payouts.
Deutsche Bank salesman Jared Vennett is one of the first to understand Burry’s analysis using his quantitative analyst to verify that Burry is most likely correct and decides to enter the market by selling the swaps to Mark Baum and collecting commissions and fees by doing so. housing market is unstable due to the high-risk subprime loans and proposes a credit default swap market that allowed him to bet against the market. Hedge fund manager Michael Burry deems that the U.S. It focuses on four men who predicted this collapse and therefore made the risky decision of betting against the market and hence profit amazing sums when the collapse, in fact, did occur. The film consists of three separate but concurrent stories, loosely connected by their action in the years leading to the financial crisis of 2007-2008 which was triggered by the United States housing bubble.