One of the strangest elements of director Adam McKays goofy 2010 comedy was the inclusion of some credit sequence infographics about corporate fraud and capitalist corruption that seemed to have been crowbarred in from another movie. It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewiss nonfiction book , an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007-8.
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