Margin Call (5/9) Movie CLIP - A Bridge (2011) HD

“Some people like driving the long way home” is a way better quote than it should be

"House looks good!" = "I know you're not done paying for that. Take the money."

“You know I created a super soldier once.”

My dad worked for Bendix in the Aerospace division. He does this kind of stuff with numbers. No pause to calculate, no look up at the ceiling, he just rips them off like he is reading them. Its freaking amazing.

I love this movie. No big sets, no CGI, no rousing soundtrack, no fancy costumes, just pure, unadulterated acting and storytelling. Reminds me of 12 Angry Men.

Translation: "Back when I worked a job that earned way less money, I built real things that made real, concrete contributions to the world. Look at me NOW."

All the Heavy Hitters (Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore) were great in the movie, but the movie was kept together by Paul Bettany, underrated AF.......!!

I live in new Martinsville. Can confirm the Moundsville bridge is awesome

Those of us who studied physics / engineering and ended up in the finance industry pre credit crunch really appreciate this scene.

It was his last job for which he could be proud. So it's not about the bridge, it's about the fact that he cannot recall any later achievement for which he could be proud of... So bitter.

Point of scene: Engineering bridges = tangible. Treating currency as a commodity = intangible. 22 years later = humanity is still benefiting from something tangible (bridges) whilst on the verge of suffering a blowback from illusory (intangible) financial system.

One of the most rewarding scenes of this movie... to get to hear him tell out all those numbers and the value that means... contrasted with spending all that time trying to build financial bridges that collapsed in on itself. He regrets going into that business. Being an engineer - a bridge builder was far more rewarding to him. That was his most treasured legacy. And he knows it. Bettany's character tells it like it is. He's a scumbag and he'll take the money and let the market figure out the damage he is causing.

The only two characters you actually get a background on in regards to career are Eric and Peter, and both of them come from outside of finance: Eric was an engineer, Peter was a rocket scientist. And it is because of these two that the situation was unfolded and found out. I like that the movie establishes the golden rule of accountability: it takes somebody from outside the establishment to recognise what is going wrong.

One thing I love about this scene is that it could've been dull exposition telling us he's good with numbers. Instead we got this beautiful scene.

Stanley Tucci. Literally I've never seen anything he has been in where he isn't stealing the show.

I honestly don't know what interpretation I like more: that he can do math like that on the fly (yes I know he does it again later but bear with me), or that his conscience has been so haunted by his lack of meaningful impact on the world that he's memorized those numbers like the back of his hand because he's thought about them every. single. day.

I love the way Tucci reacts when the car pulls up. If it were mafia-style organised crime, his fear would be palpable. But it's not. Its organised criminal behaviour which never gets violent and never results in the bastards going to jail because its conducted under the guise of 'civilised' behaviour. So instead of getting scared, Tucci gets irritated.

"some people like driving the long way home"

"Some people like driving the long way home" alludes to the fact that even though they know that listening to Eric - like taking the bridge that he built - would've saved them a lot of trouble, they still chose the old road and ended up exactly where they would've in the first case (offloading of the entire portfolio), just with a lot more time and fuel wasted.

"Some people like driving the long way home" Some people don't appreciate the gifts given to them