I’m so sorry I’m late! No cabs!
The Big Short (2015)
MARK BAUM
A screenplay character in The Big Short (2015).
- lines
- 22
- words
- 346
- scenes
- 8
- dialogue
- 2.4%
- avg words / line
- 16
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 61
Sample dialogue
So, yeah. I met with this retail banker yesterday and I’m supposed to be getting him to invest in our fund but instead I start grilling him about over draught penalties and how his bank lets a customer write ten, twelve checks before they tell em they’re overdrawn. And this creep is making billions off of screwing over people this way-
scene 28 — INT. GROUP THERAPY SESSION - MANHATTAN - DAYWhat’d you do?
scene 28 — INT. GROUP THERAPY SESSION - MANHATTAN - DAYI gotta go, it’s Cynthia. I’ll be in the office in twenty minutes.
scene 29 — EXT. MANHATTAN STREETS - LATERYeah. Why not?
scene 36 — INT. FRONTPOINT OFFICE - MORGAN STANLEY NEW YORK - LATERAnd I’m getting madder and madder and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he’s ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn’t say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So am I fucked up or is he?
scene 28 — INT. GROUP THERAPY SESSION - MANHATTAN - DAY
Bookends
According to Vennett, this is who we’re betting against.