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Dumb Money
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Directed by	Craig Gillespie
Written by	Lauren Schuker Blum; Rebecca Angelo;
Based on	The Antisocial Network; by Ben Mezrich
Produced by	Aaron Ryder; Teddy Schwarzman; Craig Gillespie;
Starring	Paul Dano; Pete Davidson; Vincent D'Onofrio; America Ferrera; Nick Offerman; Anthony Ramos; Sebastian Stan; Shailene Woodley; Seth Rogen;
Cinematography	Nikolas Karakatsanis
Edited by	Kirk Baxter
Music by	Will Bates
Production; companies	Columbia Pictures[1]; Stage 6 Films; Black Bear Pictures; Ryder Picture Company;
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing (North America); Roadshow Films (Australia)[2];
Release dates	September 8, 2023 (TIFF); September 15, 2023 (United States);
Running time	104 minutes[3]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[4]
Box office	$20.7 million[5][6]

Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.

After being filmed in New Jersey from October to November of 2022, Dumb Money premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023. It was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing in select theaters on September 15, 2023, and wide release on September 29, 2023. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $20 million worldwide.

Plot[edit]

Keith Gill is a middle class man working as a financial analyst in Brockton, Massachusetts. During his spare time, he regularly frequents the stock market subreddit r/WallStreetBets, posting his opinions on it via YouTube live streams under the name Roaring Kitty. He struggles to provide for his family, and his YouTube work is constantly mocked by his brother Kevin as nerdy garbage.

In July 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keith notices that video game retailer GameStop's stock is falling and sinks his life savings into buying stock in it, regularly live streaming updates with his viewers. Despite Kevin and several peers claiming this is a waste of time, by January 2021, activity on r/WallStreetBets reveals that several hedge fund investment firms, including Melvin Capital Management and its founder Gabe Plotkin, have been short selling stock in the chain on the assumption it would close, causing a mass increase in GameStop's overall stock price when online stock buyers, including struggling nurse Jennifer, GameStop retail employee Marcos, and lesbian college couple Riri and Harmony, start aggressively buying stock, causing Plotkin and other investment CEOs to lose hundreds of millions within the same timeframe and Keith to be heralded as a financial guru.

Things take a turn when r/WallStreetBets is temporarily shut down for "inflammatory and vulgar content", causing a mass surge of panic selling in GameStop's stock in an attempt to beat a perceived price drop. When the commission-free stock trading website Robinhood is unable to adequately pay the money for the sales, co-chairman Vlad Tenev, at the behest of Citadel LLC owner Ken Griffin, halts all purchasing of GameStop's stock in an attempt to drive down the price. The play ultimately works, but the subsequent negative backlash results in an investigation by the United States House Committee on Financial Services, with Tenev, Griffin, Plotkin, and Keith all being subpoenaed, the former three for their roles in the fiasco and the latter on suspicion of using the situation to trick the public into making himself rich. As the investors struggle to defend their actions, Keith adamantly denies any wrongdoing, stating he was only doing what anyone with a passing awareness of investment banking would do in that situation.

In the aftermath, post text shows how several of the individuals were affected: Plotkin was forced to shut down Melvin Capital because of the net losses the incident caused; Robinhood was the target of several lawsuits following the fiasco and wound up starting in the stock market significantly lower than it was prior; Harmony was able to use the money she obtained to pay off her family's debt issues and continues her relationship with Riri; Marcos sold half of his GameStop stock and quit his position in the company; Jennifer remains in debt but has retained her shareholding; Keith retired from YouTube in late April to get out of the public eye and sold part of his stocks to get Kevin an expensive car as a way to stop his nagging about how he will not loan him his car for his food deliveries.

Cast[edit]

Paul Dano as Keith Gill[7]
Pete Davidson as Kevin Gill, Keith's brother[7]
Vincent D'Onofrio as Steve Cohen[7]
America Ferrera as Jenny, a viewer of Keith's YouTube channel[7]
Myha'la Herrold as Riri, a college student and investor
Nick Offerman as Ken Griffin[7]
Anthony Ramos as Marcos Barcia, a GameStop store clerk[7]
Seth Rogen as Gabe Plotkin[7]
Talia Ryder as Harmony Williams, a college student and investor[7]
Sebastian Stan as Vlad Tenev[7]
Shailene Woodley as Caroline Gill, Keith's wife[7]
Kate Burton as Elaine Gill, Keith and Kevin's mother
Clancy Brown as Steven Gill, Keith and Kevin's father
Rushi Kota as Baiju Bhatt
Larry Owens as Chris, Jennifer's co-worker
Dane DeHaan as Brad, Marcos' boss[7]
Olivia Thirlby as Yaara Plotkin, Gabe's wife
Deniz Akdeniz as Briggsy, Keith's financial colleague
David Faber as himself, a financial journalist for CNBC

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

In January 2021, it was announced that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) had bought the rights to a book proposal by Ben Mezrich about the then-recent GameStop short squeeze, entitled The Antisocial Network, with producers Michael De Luca—who also produced The Social Network (2010), the film adaptation of Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires—and Aaron Ryder attached.[8] In May 2021, Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo were announced to write the screenplay, with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (who were subjects in The Accidental Billionares and The Social Network) executive producing.[9] In April 2022, Craig Gillespie signed on as director, with the intention of filming to start later that year around summer or fall.[10] In September, it was announced that the film was retitled to Dumb Money, and production was set to commence in October, with De Luca and MGM dropping out, while Black Bear Pictures acquired financing and sought buyers at the annual Toronto International Film Festival.[11] In October 2022, Sony Pictures bought the domestic and select international distribution rights to the film for $20 million.[12]

Casting[edit]

In September 2022, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan and Pete Davidson were set to star; Rogen and Stan previously collaborated with Gillespie on the miniseries Pam & Tommy (2022), with Stan also having starred in Gillespie's film I, Tonya (2017).[11] The following month, Shailene Woodley, Anthony Ramos, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dane DeHaan, Myha'la Herrold, America Ferrera, Rushi Kota, Nick Offerman, and Talia Ryder joined the cast.[13][14][15][16][17][18]

Filming[edit]

Principal photography took place in New Jersey from October to November 2022.[19] Filming was done in Morris, Essex and Hudson counties, with scenes filmed at Saint Elizabeth University.[19]

Challenges[edit]

Most of the characters in the film wore masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and never met in real life. To bring them together in the absence of physical proximity, writers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo drew inspiration from screenwriter Frank Capra and films such as The Social Network. The result was a technical drama in the tradition of Moneyball (2011) and The Big Short (2015) but centered around Internet populism, as if Capra's Mr. Smith had gone to Reddit.[20]

Music[edit]

Composed by Will Bates, the soundtrack was released on September 22, 2023.

Release[edit]

Dumb Money premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023, with the cast unable to attend due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.[21] It was released theatrically in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures and Stage 6 Films labels,[22] while Sony, Black Bear International and other local distributors released it internationally.[12][14] The film was initially set to be distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM).[23] A release date of October 20, 2023, was initially announced,[24] before being moved up to September 22, 2023.[1][25] It was later changed to a limited theatrical release on September 15, 2023, before expanding to a wide release on September 29, 2023.[26][27]

Dumb Money was released on digital platforms on November 7, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on December 12.[28]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Dumb Money has grossed $13.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $6.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $20.7 million.[5]

In the United States and Canada, Dumb Money was released alongside A Haunting in Venice, and made $229,947 from eight theaters in its opening weekend.[29] Expanding to 616 theaters in its second weekend, the film made $2.4 million, finishing in eighth.[30] In its third weekend the film made $3.3 million from 2,837 theaters, finishing in seventh.[31] It then made $2.1 million and $930,000 in the subsequent two weekends.[32][33]

Critical response[edit]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of 232 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Dumb Money's crowd-pleasing dramatization of real-life stock hijinks may not tell the complete story, but it's rousingly entertaining nonetheless."[34] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 53 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[35]

Accolades[edit]


Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
Celebration of Cinema & Television	December 4, 2023	Groundbreaker Award	America Ferrera (also for Barbie)	Won	[36]

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なぜ、80年代にあれだけ隆盛を誇ったヤンキー文化が衰退し、逆に蔑まれていたヲタク文化がこれほど花開いたのか？

言うまでも無い。

盗んだバイクで走り出しても、どこにも辿り着かないのだ。

結局のところ、お金を使う人間に優しいのが、この資本主義経済なのだから。

逆もまたしかりで、金を生まない人間にどこまでも冷たいのも、また資本主義経済である。

「ショート」という投資手法がある。

資金ゼロだが、ある企業が一か月後に間違い無く業績悪化するという情報を持っている人間がいたとする。

その人間が金儲けをするには？

その企業の株を持っている人に、一か月後に返す約束をして株を借りればよい。

借りた直後にその株を売り、値が下がった一か月後に買い戻して株を返せば、差額は丸儲けである。

人の不幸で儲けるようなこの手法。

ただ、ヘッジファンドに言わせれば、これによって不当に高い株価が付いている企業を洗い出すことが出来る。時代について行けず、本来なら退場してしかるべき企業に引導を渡すことができる。それによって新たな起業を促すことが出来る。これは市場の自浄作用なのである、云々。

ヲタによる見返りを求めない散財。

企業を倒産させて儲けようというヘッジファンド。

loveとhate。

非合理と非情

まるっきり別世界の出来事のようでいて、それでも同じ資本主義経済下における現象。

この２つがコロナ禍という特殊な状況下で交わることになり起きたのが、「ゲームストップ株騒動」である。

ヘッジファンドからすれば、「ゲームストップ」という、このダウンロード時代に店舗型の運営を続けるような会社は、市場から退場してもらって一向に構わないのである。

そして、ウォール・ストリートのヘッジファンドが巨大なショート・ポジションを持つということは、その会社には間違いなく未来はないのである。

なぜなら、ショートという手法は仕組み上、株価が上がり続ける限り負債が無限に増えるので、株価が下がることが絶対条件だからである。

その「ゲームストップ株」をヲタ達がガンガン買い出した。

もちろん、利益を求めてのことではない。

そして、そのイカレたポートフォリオを掲示板にガンガン上げ出した。

これだけなら、よくあるインターネット上の「祭り」のひとつで、ヘッジファンドが微塵も気にする事柄ではない。

普段なら。

コロナ禍の閉塞した状況。おうち時間やひとり時間の増加。

一人、また一人とヲタだけでなく、一般人までもが例の掲示板(WSB:ウォールストリート・ベット)にハマって行き、それだけではなく、株を買って自分も「祭り」に参加し出し、それにつれて誰も儲けようと思ってなかったのに株価が上昇を始め…

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という、実話に基づいた話です。

歴史の醍醐味って、例えば幕末のように、黒船来航によって尊王攘夷運動が起き、それによって「勤王の志士」というこの時代にしか存在しない人達が現れ、そして明治維新と共に泡のように消え去る。この、ある特殊な状況下のみに存在した人々にスポットライトが当たるところにあると思ってましたが、この事件では、それまでもこれからも存在するであろうネット上の「祭り」が、世の中そのものが変わることによって、照らすライトが変わることによって、まるっきり別の色を帯びてきて、まるっきり別の世界が生まれるという、そんな面白さもあるんだと、新たに気付かされました。

映画化もされましたが、何せブック・プロポーザルという企画書の段階で映画化が決まったようなので、分岐した別の話として、ネタ元ぐらいに思った方がよいです。

映画は騒動の中心人物の生活を主として描いていましたが、この本は、本来ならそんなことはないが、コロナ禍という特殊な条件下でWSBという掲示板に引き寄せられて行く一般人を中心としています。

知らない固有名詞とか文化とかが多かったので、そこは苦労しますが、単語や表現で引っかかるところはあまりないと思います。ただ、この作者、ワン・センテンスが長くて、1ページの半分くらいになることも。さすがに途中で文法構造を見失って、読み返してしまうこともしばしばありました。

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