Occupy Movie
Occupy protesters note: A risk analyst at a prominent Wall Street firm, about to discover the company’s assets are mostly thin air, is fired.
After learning what was happening, a trader is asked by his youthful assistants whether the rumor he made $2.5 million the year before is true.
In a sort of Nero fiddles while Rome burns style, Will Emerson (Paul Bettany) says it was easy and rattles it off in cars, houses, clothes, savings et al.
When it is pointed out he still had $125.000 left, “Yeah well I did spend $76,520 on hookers, boozes and dances, but mainly hookers.
He quickly notes he was able to claim much of that back on his taxes as entertainment.
In what may be the closest inside look yet at what happened the night the spotlight was turned on the real estate market and it turned out to be a mirage turned out to be a mirage, he defends what the company had been knowingly doing.
A young trader in on the secret says: “This is going to affect people.”
Emerson replies: “Yeah it’s going to affect people like me.”
The youthful trader replies: “Real people.”
Emerson unleashes what is almost a soliloquy: “People want to live like this and their cars and their big f* houses they cannot even pay for … you’re necessary … you’re the only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is we’ve got our fingers on the scales in their favor.
… I take my hand off and the whole world gets really f* fair quickly and nobody actually wants that.
“They want to get what we have to give them but they also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from … F* normal people.
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