I’ve always been more comfortable alone. I believe it’s because of my glass eye. I lost the eye from a childhood illness. It separates me from people. Most social interactions are awkward. For me, for the person. Even when I try to compliment someone it comes out wrong... The compliment, not the eye.
The Big Short (2015)
MICHAEL BURRY
A screenplay character in The Big Short (2015).
- lines
- 53
- words
- 800
- scenes
- 16
- dialogue
- 5.5%
- avg words / line
- 15
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 62
source review flagged 5 dialogue lines
Sample dialogue
30 days late... Rate adjusts in one year... Foreclosed... Paid on time... rate adjusts in one year... Investment grade mortgage bonds full of high risk interest only adjustable rate mortgages... Do people really understand how an adjustable rate mortgage works?... Most of these are no money down loans... 105 LTV... 540 Fico score?... Why are the mortgage companies giving these people mortgages...?
scene 13 — INT. SCION CAPITAL - MICHAEL BURRY’S OFFICE - NEXT DAYI read them.
scene 17 — INT. MICHAEL BURRY’S FUND OFFICE - CONTINUOUSNo. I want to know what mortgages are in each one.
scene 12 — INT. MICHAEL BURRY’S FUND OFFICE - DAYI’m going to get a bank to make me one. Then I’m going to buy a ton of them.
scene 17 — INT. MICHAEL BURRY’S FUND OFFICE - CONTINUOUSThis isn’t crazy. It’s all very logical.
scene 26 — INT. ACADEMY GALLERIA - FLORENCE
Bookends
She wrote back: you're just what I've been looking for. Shemeant honest. So, let me be honest...