SIMON BAKER MARGIN CALL MOVIE

In fact, all of the bankers were aware of the potential risk and had danced around it because they were making so much money, and because they knew it would be very difficult to pin it legally on any of them unless someone testified. But we know that Tuld was given several warnings over at least a year because those conversations are mentioned repeatedly by two other partners trying to save their skins, played convincingly by Simon Baker and Demi Moore. He pretends he knew nothing about the investment bank’s technical insolvency, and that he was only called that night after the discovery by a young math-wiz analyst, masterfully played by Zachary Quinto. Watching with my lawyer eyes, I saw Tuld consciously making a record that would suit him if there was litigation later. I’m not sure the reviewers would agree with me but there was something very subtle going on in the pivotal board meeting. Tuld is brilliant and seductive like the Serpent.

SIMON BAKER MARGIN CALL MOVIE

And while the entire cast is outstanding, Jeremy Irons’s character - John Tuld, the chair of an investment bank in distress on the first days of the 2008 financial meltdown - is one of the most memorable movie performances I’ve ever seen. A review of Margin Call in the New Yorker from October 2011 called it “easily the best Wall Street movie ever made.” I agree.

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