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This movie is one of the best portayals of Wallstreet out there. Yes there is some creative license taken but that's Hollywood. The script is great, the cast is phenomenal and Oliver Stone does a really good job with this film.
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Oliver Stone has made his second best movie after JFK, in my opinion with this powerful portrait of greeed and power in the middle of the financial capital of the world.
Gekko is typical character of those ages. It is not a bad guy, he just follows the rules, bets and wins, so what is the point with that?
The newcomer, Charlie Sheen is an idealist young man and his epci consists in twist the fate of this ambitious man who thinks he can move all the chess pieces without any risk.
There is just one complaint of my own. Stone seems just to wash the face to the system he attacks, and somehow this restrained gaze weakens the structure of the script. The good customes and the honesty finally win the game but how long can you smile with this bizarre triumph? and even worst are you sure you can talk about ethics in such atmosphere. Wall Street means risk and failure, competence and disloyalty, no rules just basic instinct if you want to survive.
There are many common places between this film and Donnie Brasco if you think it carefully. It is the figure of the experience against the youth idealism, but remember Hobbes and forget the innocence in the world. You may become as the central figure of Candide's Voltaire if you think the world is composed bu good and bad boys: the question is survive; no matter how high is the prize you pay by that.
Michael Douglas made the best achievement of his career to date. A kinetic script and glorious camera work.
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Wall Street is so 1980s and that's not a bad thing!!
Michael Douglas IS Gordon Gecko in this film and that's probably why he walked off with the Oscar for Best Actor at the 1988 Academy Awards in this fascinating look at the high pressure world of the stock market.
While Charlie Sheen was the hot commodity at the time this film was made, his acting hasn't aged well and it's quite clear that a better choice could have been found for this movie, where the same thing can be said for Darryl Hannah who is only slightly better in her role as the high priced artist for sale to the highest bidder (richest boytoy she can find).
Oliver Stone's directing is very good but the backstory relating to BlueStar airlines could have been a little better but perhaps I just don't have very positive memories because of the trite acting by Charlie Sheen.
However, Michael Douglas alone is worth watching this film and its the performance of his career.
**** RECOMMENDED
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Not having a strong interest or knowledge in the world of stocks and bonds, WALL STREET failed to provide me with a satisfying cinematic experience. Though I have been a fan of Michael Douglas for some time, it seems strange that he won an Oscar for a film in which he has little real screen time. Most of the movie focuses on Charlie Sheen's character, and even though Douglas is perfect in the role of Gordon Gekko, I wasn't overwhelmed by his performance. He won that year over William Hurt (Broadcast News); Marcello Mastroianni (Dark Eyes), Jack Nicholson (Ironweed) and Robin Williams (Good Morning Vietnam). Assuredly, Douglas embodied the corporate greed of Gekko, but it is ultimately a one note performance, without any shadings of real personality. Charlie, meanwhile, in one of his first major roles, is only about 50% effective, and his power comes in the scenes he shares with his father, Martin, who played his father in the film. There are nice supporting turns from James Karen as the duplicitous sales manager; John C. McGinley as Charlie's sometime buddy broker; Terence Stamp as Gekko's British rival; James Spader as a yuppie lawyer; and of course Martin as Charlie's father whom he betrays. Daryl Hannah is awful in a one-note role as Douglas' ex-mistress and Sheen's current honey. Sixties ingenue Millie Perkins has an all too brief cameo as Charlie's mother in the final ten minutes of the movie.
Oliver Stone's movies have always been provocative and WALL STREET is no different. But I have always found myself disturbed by his movies in that they are not the most "entertaining" of films; there's always a message, and this time, the one that "greed is good" just doesn't fill the bill for me. Michael Douglas has given enough great performances that this Oscar to me rewards his body of work rather than this one role.
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