Early in the movie there is an extended scene where Braxton shakes down a hedge-fund manager (in the car) who was shorting Brax's client's stock. Did I miss something? That entire exchange does not seem to fit in with the rest of the plot. Was it there just to establish that Braxton was a bad guy? If so that is a pretty weak character development technique.
IMO the readon for that scene is to establish him as a type of person who dispenses vigilante justice. He mentions the families who will lose their livelihoods because of that greedy young-Mitt-Romney-type with the fancy car. He was led to believe that Ed Chilton and Rita were bad people also by his client.
"Well, for once the rich white man is in control!" C. M. Burns
I can't read your yellow type. : /
shareI agree with Clothes-Off. To take it a little further, it was to establish that the two brothers had grown up to have somewhat similar "jobs" despite how "different" one was.
shareShorting the stock and telling lies about the company for his own profits, but ruining the other company. Apparently there was a whole list of companies he was doing that to, because he asked which company he should stop damaging.
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