The Fall Guy: Valuable money lessons from Ryan Gosling's new film
There’s chemistry that sets the hero literally on fire. Witty repartee through the film that will make you smile as you munch on popcorn (cheese and caramel for me!). There’s non-stop action (and not CGI) that will make your jaws drop (watch out for the popcorn!). And yes it is perhaps a coincidence that the film was released on International Labour Day, but what a glorious coincidence!
What happens when a stuntman to a superstar has a crush on the cinematographer? Colt Seavers (the irrepressible Ryan Gosling) has fallen off buildings, crashed cars, been burnt and more for superstar Tom Ryder (played with superb arrogance by Aaron Taylor-Johnson). But after a back breaking fall, he goes into hiding. Colt is called back to Sydney by Gail Meyers — the successful producer of most of Tom Ryder films — by telling Colt that this was Jody Moreno’s first film as a director. Tom has had a crush on Jody forever. Jody Moreno is played by the gorgeous Emily Blunt.
What follows Colt is non stop fun! A missing superstar, filming of awesome action sequences for the film, a dead body, and yes some high octane romance, of course! What money lessons can this film about filmmaking teach you smart investors?
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Director David Leitch has helped create John Wick, directed Bullet Train and Atomic Bomb. In this ode to unsung heroes the director makes a big point. In a world where big action stars are always claiming that they do their own stunts, the real men and women who perform those stunts are never given any credit and there’s no Oscar for the death-defying stunts we enjoy on the big screen. By making The Fall Guy, the director is not just paying
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