Daily phenomena photoblog
Bank of Evil – formerly Lehman Brothers
If you haven’t seen Despicable Me this far, you must have been into the woods for far too long. Unbelievably funny and witty story with great attention to detail – really worth watching. Here is the webpage, it will give you the taste.
Anyway – one of the main characters, villain Gru goes to the bank for a loan. Since he is a villain, he needs a loan for some really bad ideas to develop. So he goes to the Evil Bank – and the table above the secret entrance to the bank reads “The Evil Bank” and in small letters below that “formerly Lehman Brothers” – one of the four US biggest investment bank, that filed for bankruptcy in 2008. The fall of Lehman Brothers is considered as one of the key elements that triggered the beginning of global economy crisis the erupted in late 2008. Having said that, this little scene is just unbelievably clever and funny at the same time.
And the whole scene:
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