Yeah, they also turned the Asian "good guy" character, Jamie Mai, into a white guy played by John Magaro, and chopped down the "Asian quant" (Eugene Xu) into a brief cameo that Ryan Gosling makes an ironic racist joke abouthttps://twitter.com/kingstonwrites/status/1354842588805799938?s=19 …
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They did keep the cartoonishly evil Asian guy from Merrill Lynch, though, Wing Chau (played by Byron Mann) And I have no real sympathy for Chau or anyone else in his profession but he did IIRC try to sue the production for "making him the face of the crash" and ruining his life
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I liked the movie enough when it came out that I didn't really talk about this kind of "artistic license" because I thought the core story was told so well But it is worth talking about, this shit adds up
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Oh yeah and Karen Gillan playing the one SEC employee that they try to talk to at the big conference, only for her to spend the whole time in a bikini by the hotel pool trying to flirt with finance bros to get a job in the private sector
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I get the symbolism you're trying to use here ("regulators in bed with the industry they oversee") Making it literal like this with a female character is... not a good look
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There's also that other woman, but she's the asshole in charge of Moody's or whatever. Which, not an especially sympathetic character, that.
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Unsympathetic female characters, whatever, fine Openly using slut-shaming as a metaphor is a step past that
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