![]() He finally decides to do so but, at the end of the film, shows that he is in denial about his responsibilities and actions. Sam Rogers shows his doubts as to whether he can motivate his staff to pull off a fire sale that will destroy the market. The film shows that not every Wall Street trader is without a moral conscience. Tuld is embodied by Jeremy Irons who has experience with playing power-mad characters in the TV Series ‘The Borgia’s’ and ruthless characters showing no moral conscience, like Simon Gruber in ‘Die Hard: With a Vengeance’. Cohen is a cold-hearted, calculated Wall Street business man who makes sure that his ass is not on the line as aptly demonstrated in a gripping elevator scene where he and Robertson are having a discussion about the strategy to present to the CEO of the company, John Tuld. SIMON BAKER, renowned from his role in ‘The Mentalist’, gives a powerful performance as Jared Cohen, and is completely credible as Sam Roger’s boss, although he is 20 years his junior. It seemed like the sexually aggressive boss Moore played in ‘Disclosure’, Meredith Johnson, who had to resign after she lost a sexual harassment case, changed her name to Sarah Robertson and persued her career at this bank but who will find her Waterloo again as she becomes the h ead to feed to the traders and the board of the company. In ‘Swimming with Sharks’ Spacey portrays a ‘shark’ himself an abusive sadistic Hollywood producer who treats his assistant like a dog.ĭemi Moore gives a sterling performance as Sarah Robertson, the chief risk assessment officer of the bank. In ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ he played John Williamson, the office manager who leads a team of real estate salesmen who use dishonest tactics to make sales. The American actor has experience in how a character like this survives in an environment of sharks. Spacey is made for the part of Sam Rogers, the 63-old executive of the company. When Kevin Spacey came on board it helped to secure the finances of the film. He plays Peter Sullivan, the character who discovers the financial disaster into which the investment bank, Goldstone Sterns, has gotten itself having over-leveraged in mortgage-backed-securities. The actor, ZACHARY QUINTO, whose production company also produced the film, was the first person to come on board. It’s a sheer joy to see the actors bringing Chandor’s dialogues to life making the viewer sit on the edge on their seat. Many of the scenes occur in either the trading floor or the board room, as you witness a lot of fireworks between the characters. So hold your heads high… and get back to work. But you all are survivors… And that is how this firm over 107 years has always continued to grow stronger. I’ve been at this place for thirty-nine years and let me tell you that this will not be the last time you go through this. Before this is all done 3 of every seven guys who were standing between you and your boss’s job are now gone. On every floor of this building and in every office from Hong Kong to London the same thing is happening. We have spent the last hour saying good-bye… they were good people and they were good at their jobs… but you all were better. SAM ROGERS: You are all still here for a reason… eighty percent of this floor was just sent home… forever. In one scene, the executive of the investment bank, Sam Rogers, delivers a motivational speech, in a nearly empty trading floor, to the remaining quarter of the employees who were not ‘let go’: ‘Margin Call’ has a high concentration of such characters egotistical men who verbally fight each other in the board rooms, letting no one stand in their way for the survival of the fittest. JOHN GAPPER (Financial Times) once described what characterises Mamet’s characters: “Confrontation is often present in Mamet’s work, in which characters with opposing views argue with often unbearable intensity, trying to settle their differences by pounding each other’s personalities”. Mamet, the American dramatist, has written dialogue-driven plays and screenplays, most notably, ‘Glengarry GlenRoss’, ‘Wag the Dog’ and ‘House of Games’. The script has an affinity with the style of the DAVID MAMET school of writing. Chandor, the son of an investment banker, also wrote the script and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. ‘Margin Call’ is a fictionalized account of the financial crisis in 2008 that features this stellar cast. This is exactly what happened for the director J.C. For any first-time director, it would be a dream if the cast of your first feature film was to include KEVIN SPACEY, JEREMY IRONS, DEMI MOORE and STANLEY TUCCI.
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