Michael Lewis
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I mean, he's just like, all he wants to do is be like doing good work at his Wall Street firm.
But all of a sudden the market looks rigged.
And he starts to ask, how is it rigged?
And the story is the story of him starting, just turning over rocks and finding something nefarious under every rock until he's assembled a picture of the stock market, which no one really has assembled.
And then instead of taking advantage of it to make money for the Royal Bank of Canada or himself, he just goes and tells investors about it, which is also kind of another Canadian thing to do, right?
And so, I mean, there's a Canadian dimension to this story that Rekha runs through.
I don't want to say the name Dudley Do-Right, but...
It's hard not to see the comparisons.
Yeah.
So the disadvantage the story has is the hero's Canadian, because everybody kind of goes Canadian.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the, he... He assembles like a ragtag team, like an Ocean's Eleven of guys.
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
Yes, I mean, he's getting people... Let me pitch the movie for you.
Well, they go to investors, like people who are running the savings of this country and say, look, this is basically what's happened.
And the investors, you would think the investors would know
what's going on in the stock market.
And they kind of do.