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  1. lineage (genre lineage): Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street. Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of.
    “This is, you know, the mothership.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Margin Call → Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet.
    “Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Margin Call → Wall Street. Brian says Margin Call is the best film about business and the two are the best movies on the subject.
    “Wall Street and Margin Call of the 2 best movies about this”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:55 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Margin Call → A Most Violent Year. Brian calls Chandor's later gangster-adjacent film a cousin to Hard Eight.
    “it's actually like a cousin to heart 8 in a certain way”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:11:19 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Margin Call: Brian knows almost every word; it was shot in about 11 days.
    “It was shot in like 11 days.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:11:35 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): Margin Call → Stanley Tucci. The Tucci performance at the center is as good as anything you will see.
    “There is a performance from Stanley Tucci in the center of that film.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:11:47 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Margin Call → The Station Agent. The Station Agent was on Brian's potential list and shares tone and performances with Margin Call.
    “there's something related Tom McCarthy's movie to it”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:08 · Brian Koppelman (0.75 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Margin Call: Revisit the boardroom scene where Jeremy Irons shows up, and the 'more lucrative' rocket-scientist answer.
    “I just fire up the scene where Jeremy Iron shows up in the boardroom.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  9. people (people): Margin Call → Zachary Quinto. Zachary Quinto produced Margin Call and gives a perfect performance.
    “And Zach Kinto produced it”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Margin Call. Both depict a moment in time; Sex, Lies depicted its moment 30 years before.
    “30 years before the moment in time.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:25:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.70 sure it was them)
  11. people (performance-praise): Paul Bettany → Margin Call. Bettany is good in the small movie Margin Call, a recurring pattern of seventh-billed dramatic scenes nobody uses.
    “He's good in margin call.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:54:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. craft (craft): F1 → Margin Call. Margin Call also pauses to have a character ask for the explanation.
    “there will be times in margin call where a character will be like, explain this to me like I'm 10.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:52:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Margin Call: Koppelman has watched this more than any movie of the last 15 years; Simmons calls it more horror than drama.
    “I dig that it's more of a horror movie than a drama.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:01:48 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  14. theme (theme): Margin Call → Liar's Poker. Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker.
    “I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85 sure it was them)
  15. contrast (contrast): Margin Call → The Big Short. Koppelman says the Big Short film does not equal Margin Call in conveying the psychology of the people who unleashed the crisis.
    “the movie, The Big Short, to me, doesn't really equal this film in letting us understand the psychology of the people who really like loose this thing on the world”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:04:16 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. theme (theme): Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street. Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people.
    “Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. career (career): Margin Call → Billions. Koppelman says Margin Call reaffirmed how he and Dave had thought about these people, and made a hedge-fund story make more sense than a bank story.
    “margin call may be reaffirmed that the way Dave and I thought about these people, as we'd met them, was pretty much like the way a lot of them are”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:21:18 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)
  18. lineage (lineage): Margin Call → Billions. Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer.
    “this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)
  19. theme (genre): Margin Call → Michael Clayton. Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers.
    “It's like an office thriller, almost.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  20. theme (genre): Margin Call → The Company Men. Koppelman recommends The Company Men as a good if lesser film in the same mold.
    “if you like this movie, um, that I really, really like. It's not as good as margin call, but really good is the company man.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:23:48 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  21. craft (craft): Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street. Russillo notes the Irons/Spacey penthouse shot resembles the DiCaprio/McConaughey scene, both explaining finance without talking down.
    “the shot is similar when it's the 1st time with DiCaprio and McConaughey”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:24:40 · Ryen Russillo (0.80 sure it was them)
  22. contrast (contrast): Margin Call → The Big Short. Koppelman: unlike Big Short, these people are not criminals by law, making this a crime movie with no prosecutable crime.
    “this is a crime movie with no prosecutable crime in it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:26:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  23. contrast (contrast): Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street. Same stretch: Wolf is about criminals who went to jail; Margin Call has no coke, assault or prosecutable crime.
    “Jordan went to jail.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:26:45 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them)
  24. contrast (contrast): Margin Call → Michael Clayton. Michael Clayton has murder in it, Margin Call does not.
    “Michael Clayton has murder in it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:26:51 · Brian Koppelman (0.70 sure it was them)
  25. industry (industry): Margin Call → Contagion. Simmons lists 2011 movies like Margin Call, Moneyball, Limitless, Contagion as the end of the pre-streaming era; today they'd be pitched as TV.
    “this was kind of the end of the pre-streaming era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:28:21 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  26. industry (industry): Margin Call → Limitless. Simmons thinks Limitless alone might get made today but would be a TV series, and was one.
    “limitless just would have been a TV series and eventually it was anyway.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:28:51 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  27. industry (industry): Margin Call → George Clooney. Koppelman says it would only be a feature today with a movie star, naming Clooney as Irons.
    “You probably would have had to put Clooney in the Jeremy Irons role and then it gets made now as a feature”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:30:08 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)
  28. industry (industry): Zachary Quinto → Margin Call. Simmons notes Margin Call was produced by Quinto's production company.
    “this was produced by Zachary Quinto's uh, Zachary Quinto's uh, production company.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:30:57 · Ryen Russillo (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. career (career): Margin Call → Rounders. Koppelman contrasts Chandor's four-day script with Rounders, which took 3.5 months for a first draft.
    “rounders was 3.5 months for the 1st draft after we'd outlined it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:32:20 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Margin Call: Shot in 17 days on a $3.5 million budget that grossed $19 million; nominated for best original screenplay.
    “This movie had a $3500000 budget made 19 million.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:34:32 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  31. verdict (verdict): Margin Call → Roger Ebert. Simmons reports Ebert's 3.5-star review praising the cast making financial talk compelling.
    “Our guy Roger Ebert, 3.5 stars said excellent cast.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:34:36 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)
  32. theme (theme): Margin Call → The Company Men. Russillo remembers Affleck's kid's jumper in The Company Men.
    “Affleck's kid has probably one of the best jumpers I've ever seen in a movie or TV”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:35:46 · Ryen Russillo (0.80 sure it was them)
  33. theme (theme): Margin Call → Up in the Air. Simmons or Koppelman note Up in the Air shares the layoff-scene quality with the Tucci layoff.
    “Oh, that's another movie that goes in the category is up in the air”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:48:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  34. craft (craft): Margin Call → Billions. Koppelman says Billions also does the all-the-best-characters-in-one-room scene.
    “There's a couple TV shows that do this, including billions.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:50:18 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  35. theme (theme): Margin Call → Goldman Sachs. Russillo ties the film to Goldman's real-world arc and share price, 50 in 2008 to 426 this year.
    “50 bucks a share, 2008, uh, hit 426 this year”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:54:18 · Ryen Russillo (0.85 sure it was them)
  36. industry (industry): Margin Call → The Big Short. Simmons says Big Short hurt Margin Call by swallowing its oxygen, making it less rewatchable on cable.
    “Big Short kind of swallowed up a little bit of the oxygen around this story.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:59:40 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  37. craft (craft): Margin Call → The Big Short. Russillo compares Margin Call's overnight city-drive beat to McKay's silent montage with iPhones, which he says sold it better.
    “I think the big short sold that so much more.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:00:20 · Ryen Russillo (0.80 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Margin Call: Best-title discussion: Russillo and Simmons say Margin Call is a bad title; suggestion of Sell, Sell, Sell.
    “I think it's a bad title.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:02:41 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  39. verdict (verdict): Margin Call → The Big Short. Simmons's hottest take: he likes Margin Call more than The Big Short.
    “I just like this movie more than the big short.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:04:08 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  40. verdict (verdict): Margin Call → The Big Short. Simmons's second take: one of the 10 best movies of the last 15 years.
    “this is one of the 10 best movies of the last 15 years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:04:33 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Margin Call: Casting what-ifs: Irons role first offered to Ben Kingsley, Tim Robbins and Billy Crudup passed, Carla Gugino was to play Demi Moore's part.
    “The Jeremy Ions ions world was originally offered too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:05:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Margin Call: Best that guy: Asif Mandvi plays the executive lawyer.
    “His name is Asif Manvi.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:07:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Margin Call: More than 80 percent of the film was shot on the 42nd floor of One Penn Plaza, vacated by a trading firm.
    “more than 80% of the action was shot on the 42nd floor of one Penn Plaza”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:12:11 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Margin Call: Dog and shovel: prettiest shot in the movie but styled up about 27 percent.
    “I agree, though, that's the prettiest shot in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:15:38 · Ryen Russillo (0.70 sure it was them)
  45. what-if (what-if): Margin Call → 24 (TV series). Simmons imagines a prestige-TV version in a 24 style, 13 episodes of one night.
    “do a 24 style, like keep for Sutherland, that show”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:18:38 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  46. programming (programming): Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street. Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success.
    “Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  47. programming (programming): Margin Call → Bright Lights, Big City. Russillo's double-feature pick.
    “Bright lights, big city.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80 sure it was them)
  48. programming (programming): Margin Call → Wall Street. Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements.
    “I would go Wall Street.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  49. industry (industry): Margin Call → Succession. Producer Craig says it is indistinguishable from an HBO show like Succession, and would be a 10-part series now.
    “I couldn't believe this was a movie, and I think if it did get made today, it would easily be a 10 part TV show”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:29:07 · Craig Horlbeck (0.90 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Margin Call: Producer Craig says it's indistinguishable from an HBO show and still makes him want to work in finance.
    “it never fails to make me want to work in finance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:29:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.90 sure it was them)