Margin Call Extras Interview

anybody that says you know you know cuz sometimes you hear something that's the first time director and I go well you know what there's a great story that always puts this in context for me 1940-something young writer at Universal is assigned a director film the Warner Brothers he happens to be the son of a famous actor and Paul Muni is gonna star in this movie and he is absolutely furious if they've assigned some first-time directors never done a movie so he walks off the film much to the delight of John Huston who then casts Humphrey Bogart and makes a phone call The Maltese Falcon which was his first movie what's going on look at this Eric gave me this file before he left Eric Dale and and he told me that he couldn't quite figure it out and the last thing you've said to me before the elevator doors closed was be careful he said be careful yeah so obviously I'm a little curious I start to get into a little bit and I realize that the only thing that he's amiss this is not good well we've marketed it as sort of a thriller at times you know here it last night it played wonderfully it's almost an absurdist you know comedy at times but for me at its heart which i think is where the comedy comes from it's a it's a tragedy to a certain extent and that that character that Penn plays Seth is in my mind what we've done certainly in the United States with our you know the highest education you know I was a B student but these guys and gals are not B students these are sort of the finest in the United States that we have these are you know you know we are literally putting the majority of our resources educationally or the best of our resources into these Minds and these firms you know come to those schools every one of them with a pitch a very very very you know convincing argument about financial security and what they can offer and people are lured into that and and as they you know if you were in that position having worked your whole life to put yourself you know into Harvard graduate school or you know an amazing MBA program somewhere you know it's a convincing argument but you know my argument is you know those people or the majority of those people need to be out sort of making something to a certain extent and you know the industry certainly in my my humble opinion you know grew grew to large and I think we learned that but we need to you know continue to be aware of it because it's happening again you know today you're all still here for a reason 80% of this floor was just sent home forever we spent the last hour saying our goodbyes they were good people and they were good at their jobs but you were better now they're gone they're not to be thought of again this is your opportunity on every floor of this building and in every office from Hong Kong to London same things happening by the time we're done three of every seven guys who were standing between you and your boss's job are gone my character represents that a lot of ways as a trained rocket scientist someone who could be contributing to the world at large and a significant and perhaps profound way and instead is lured by by by the financial benefit of working in a corporation like this and I think he struggles with out a little bit throughout the movie ultimately ends up accepting a promotion theoretically at the end of the settlement and so so that was one of the things that drew me to the character was the same notion of where is that ethical line at what point does one cross it in order to benefit and and and and I think it's it runs throughout the story but it's it's definitely one thing that drew me to to the role for sure Sam pick up the phone Sam get on the line yeah I got Lawrence in Merrell where are we sixty-three cents on what 375 of mixed day get every 65 and hit it what is that that's a hundred a 1 million dollar loss on a single train I understand the instincts for mastery and survival of the fittest and the world is an unfair on balance place and so there will always be you know hunters and the hunted and leaders and the led and that is the way of the world and therefore you should exploit it as the natural order of things so that that's they don't think of themselves as bad guys that it's and you know if you if you don't believe in that and you still are a capitalist then you're living in denial and I think that's true and I think that I am living in denial absolutely I I have a very nice life i buy my kids excessive presence and in order to do that I have to not think about the kids who are not getting presents and I have to not think about the kids actually who can't get you know running clean water and medical care and food a there's an enormous amount of denial for all of us living under the system and the microphone that you're recording us on you know you're being paid more than the person who you know made the circuitry for this microphone it's it's it's all unbalanced and unfair and I have no solution for that but um you know aware of how complicit we all are and so therefore it becomes sort of I find it problematic and and and wrong to point fingers at these these guys who did this it's the system actually that is that is out of kilter you know but capitalism is veracious this is what it's what it does it just consumes and we can regulate it but but but but it is a systemic problem rather than an individual problem to ask her to it's to suffering for us all to be shot the bankers try to make as much money as they could is kind of peculiar that's been their charm that's what we want them to do

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Keywords: zachary quinto, kevin spacy, paul bettany, jeremy irons, jc chandor, margin call

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Length: 6min 31sec (391 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 02 2013