LOS ANGELES -- How do you explain the concept of the mid-Aughts housing collapse in a single scene?
There's a child's game for that.
In this clip, shared exclusively with Mashable, Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) explains to a group of investors the disaster that's about to happen -- and make them a mountain of money in the process -- with a little game of Jenga.
Anyone who bought (or tried to sell) a house 10 years ago ought to recognize this frame:
[img src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jenga.png" caption="It all comes crashing down in "The Big Short."" credit="Paramount Pictures" alt="jenga"]
Paramount Pictures' The Big Short arrives in U.S. theaters on Dec. 23.