(Harvest) Dr. Michael Burry was one of the heroes of Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , which tells the story about how he correctly predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse in 2008 and decided to bet against Wall Street, earning billions of dollars in the process.
In the 2015 film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book, Michael Burry was played by Christian Bale. Apparently Christian Bale captured Michael Burry’s personality – as a socially awkward but clearly brilliant investor – perfectly (Bale was even wearing Burry’s actual clothes in the movie). And Michael Burry is part of the reason why both the book and the movie were so good – his personality and his bet on the housing crisis in 2008 and 2009 are fascinating.
