Financial movies

I was just thinking about financial drama movies and how one theme is to have a ‘terrorist’ type of person create a disaster so people panic and sell.  Of course the bad guys are short and expecting to profit big from a downturn.  I have seen this situation appear several times like an afterthought for an action movie.   I think the main reason this is written into scripts is because it sounds better for a bad guy to be a short seller.  They do some damage, they cash out and run away.  This was in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Survivor. 

If a bad guy in a movie wants to manipulate the market and profit from a crash, they should do what people do already in real life.  Create a bubble.  Start shorting when it gets ridiculous and if the bad guy is the source of the bubble, he can simply end his buying pressure once he has shorted enough, then it would crash.  I am not sure where bombs, violence, abduction and all the other typical things you would see in a movie with a financial terrorist would fit into the picture, pun.  It would be a plot for a likeable bad guy or a normal person who was tempted.    This is basically in The Big Short except Its more like some guys took advantage of the bubble others made.

You could have Wall Street 3 or something similar with a likeable bad guy who creates a bubble, gets everyone excited, then shorts it, then maybe does a double buy back to lock in profits and get ready for another expansion.  I guess the whole evil/violent terrorist thing just doesn’t make sense to me in real life which makes it harder to have in a good story.

Other scam plots where money is just stolen or someone breaks laws is common for financial dramas.  Billionaire Boys Club, Wall Street 1 and 2, The Trade, Rogue Trader, Limitless and Boiler Room are all full of white collar law breakers.

You dont even need to break laws or have a terrorist or criminal to have a good story.  Other People's Money, Qicksilver, Trading Places, Dealers, Pi, Cash McCall, Barbarians at the Gate, the Hudsucker Proxy and Margin Call prove a struggle or unique situation is all you need.

 
The more complicated and logical, the better.
Just my thoughts.