Big Money Bets in Movies & TV: Analyzing Hollywood Portrayals of Investing & Finance

How close to real life are the big money bets we see in movies and TV? In movies and TV risky ways to wealth often seem the most entertaining. From investments to gambling (which really aren’t that different after all, it seems...) characters on screen often make mega bucks by taking big bets and winning. And while these were once mainly reserved for the wealthy, tech has allowed them to become more accessible to regular people. But there are some darker truths hiding on all of those enthralling stories, and sometimes they can give us an unrealistic sense of just how possible those kinds of wins could be for us. So, how close to real life are the portrayals, actually? Let's take a deeper look.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:53 Big risks = bigger rewards
01:20 Ambitious upstarts making their name
03:35 Titans holding onto power at all costs
04:47 Never really losing *too much*
06:45 Real people, without the industry safety net
09:07 Taking a gamble
11:17 The biggest key to success...
12:28 So why do we enjoy watching this stuff, anyway?
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