6 biggest financial villains portrayed by Hollywood
Also a true story, this movie, based on Michael Lewis's book of the same name, follows the lead up to the housing bubble of the mid-2000s through the eyes of hedge fund manager Michale Burry, played by Christian Bale, Jared Vennett, a trader played by Ryan Gosling, another hedge fund manager named Mark Baum, played by Steve Carrell, and a retired banker, Ben Rickert, played by Brad Pitt.
Mark Baum: "For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did."