The Big Short stands as one of the most faithful book-to-film adaptations, but there are main differences from the source material.
The Big Picture The 2015 Academy Award Best Picture nominee The Big Short is a financial cautionary tale — which also happens to be very funny —based on true-life events. Adam McKay and Charles Randolph adapted the book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by financial journalist Michael Lewis, chronicling the events that led to the late 2000s financial crisis.
Keeping Track Of The Name Changes In ‘The Big Short’ Bale’s Michael Burry is the only main character whose name goes unchanged. The faithfulness of his portrayal goes all the way to hearing hard rock at high volume and using an actual T-shirt and cargo shorts that belonged to Burry. Still, there are some differences to his character, for he doesn’t disclose his life details to the person he’s interviewing, rather than some friends through email.
'The Big Short' Changed Events Leading to the Crash Comparing what the movie shows to what the book tells, pops up some understandable differences for the sake of storytelling. For instance, the movie shows Wittrock’s Jamie and Magaro’s Charlie, the heads of Brownfield Fund, having encountered Vennett’s housing bubble pitch in the lobby of a bank they wanted to get into business with. Instead, a friend sent it to them, as they explain while breaking the fourth wall.
In the book, it’s Vinny and not Baum/Eisman, who meets and interviews the stripper with six loans with low down payments. Also, the book mentions the stripper actually had five loans. The one who has six loans on her properties is Eisman’s baby nurse. Some years earlier, she bought a townhouse in Queens along with her sister.
Name changes and altered events are the summary of the differences between the movie and the book. One obvious additional variance is what makes the movie so great: in real life, we don’t have stars like Margot Robbie , Selena Gomez, or Anthony Bourdain pop up to explain the complicated financial terms in for-dummies language.
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