Factual error: In the aerial shot of an overpass in Las Vegas, right after the scene where the cast drives off in taxis, an Avicii billboard is visible in the background. Avicii only grew to fame after the housing market crash. (01:30:00)
The Big Short (2015)
1 factual error
Directed by: Adam McKay
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Charlie Talbert, Casey Groves, Rudy Eisenzopf
Continuity mistake: At the end of Margot Robbie's scene she picks up the champagne flute from her bathtub. The camera angle changes and she is no longer holding it, then picks it up again.
Ben Rickert: If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?
Question: When we first see Michael Burry at his desk, practicing drumming, he is wearing a T-shirt with what looks like a complicated mathematical formula on it. Can anyone identify this?
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