SNL was where Adam McKay started directing comedic short films with Will Ferrell. He then rose to fame when they segued into movie comedies: “Anchorman,” “Talladega Nights,” and “Step Brothers.”
McKay’s now segueing again, this time towards gravitas (sort of) with his new film, the entertaining, “The Big Short.’
He’s used a story about the American mortgage crisis of 2008 to get serious, but he’s not getting terribly serious just yet. It may be that he never will. As his wife Shira Piven said in a recent interview with the Epoch Times, “Adam is just wired to be funny.”
While “Short” leaves McKay a short step from true cinematic gravitas, it’s possible he’s just getting warmed up, and his wife will someday say, “Adam, I never knew thee!”
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“The Big Short” explains how the U.S. housing market, which was always taken for granted as absolutely rock solid, very quickly became worthless.
