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The Big Short (2015)

Film

DirectorAdam McKay

Meta takes1

Figures

Characters

Protagonists as "Heroic" Outsiders

Form & technique

Las Vegas Investigation Sequence → The Smile Tax

Tropes

Celebrity Cameo Explanations
Jenga Tower CDO Metaphor

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