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Proves the point: Grees is good at times !
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Wall Street is a marvelous movie directed by Oliver Stone (JFK) and starring Michael Douglas (The War Of The Roses) in his only Oscar winning performance, Charlie Sheen (Scary Movie 3), Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill), and Martin Sheen (Catch Me If You Can).
Bud Fox, played by Charlie Sheen, is an ambitious stockbroker who wants to make the big time as a highroller. Gordon Gekko, played by Douglas, is Bud's idol and dream client. After a brief meeting with Gekko and an offer of buying the airline that his father, played by Martin Sheen, works for, Gekko takes young Bud under his wing, exposing him to the lifestyle of the rich and merciless and initiating him into the corrupt world of Wall Street.
Nearly 20 years after its release, Wall Street remains to be a powerful film. What makes the movie so interesting is Douglas's convincing performance as a man who's got it all and has lost all sense of morality.
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Ten stars. That simple. Between a flawless performance by Douglas and the advisory/cameo role of Jeff Beck, this movie backfired on Stone. Its brilliance is as much in its apparent insight into "80s greed" as it is inspiration for everyone who firmly believes that one Ferrari is simply not enough. Virtually every line of this Oscar-winning masterpiece should be committed to memory, not for it purported value as a parable re: capitalism gone bad but as an arrow in one's quiver for daily conversation. "I create nothing; I own."
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The ambience of the Reagan-era stock boom is captured perfectly in this iconic film, starring Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, and Charlie Sheen.
The younger Sheen plays Bud Fox, a young up-and-coming stockbroker who worms his way into the heart of darkness of Wall Street mogul Gordon Gekko (Douglas), who seduces the younger man into a lifestyle of stylish excess.
Martin Sheen plays Charlie's father, a role he reprised from real life. In WALL STREET the elder Sheen is an airline mechanic and union man to the cuffs of his coveralls who tries desperately to make his bedazzled son hold fast to bedrock blue-collar values.
Although the ethics lesson is heavy-handed and obvious, WALL STREET's closing moral is satisfyingly vague and open to interpretation, giving this film an unintended depth that still draws audiences two decades later.
Douglas's Gekko is the avaricious embodiment of the Gimme Decade, believing that, from start to finish as the great tagline to this movie says, "Greed is good...Greed works." Director Oliver Stone named Gekko after the infamous "f.u. lizard" of Vietnam, and it's an appropriate choice. Gekko, as the embodiment of a kind of ethical darkness, has much in common with APOCALYPSE...NOW's Colonel Kurtz (another Sheen vehicle). He is eminently piratical, dismembering companies, enemies and sexual conquests (Daryl Hannah plays the girl) gloatingly.
Smudging the seemingly simple lines drawn in the sand, Douglas's Oscar-winning portrayal is so overwhelmingly powerful that it effectively capsizes the movie and inverts the lesson in ethics. The mesmerizing, beautifully polished Gekko, reeking of amorality, becomes a study in the Will to Power.
Gekko, quite ironically, is The Man We All Want To Be. His strength however, comes less from within himself than from his ability to tap into the egocentric desires of others around him. Never promising anything, like a magician he demonstrates everything, exuding authority and certainty in that most uncertain and least authoritative of all universes, finance. Generations of MBAs, CFPs, and hungry young men of all stripes have seen WALL STREET as a McGuffey's Reader of sorts, providing a template for the look, tone, and attitude of success. Events have not proven them wrong.
Even as the sycophants around him disgustingly reduce everything to a crude dollars-and-cents cost-benefit analysis (take note of Daryl Hannah's reaction to Gekko's tacky modern art collection), Gekko seems to be above it all. True, he exhibits the predatory instincts of an alley cat throughout the picture, but he is also undeniably alluring. Whether Douglas is portraying the hero or the villain of WALL STREET depends entirely on the viewer's perspective and mood.
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as with platoon (another stone classic), stone makes the "bad guy" pretty darn appealing in the character of Gordon Gekko. as with stone's best work, he gets career-defining performances from Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas, not to mention some great performances from supporting cast like Martin Sheen in a brilliant stroke at Charlie Sheen's cinematic father.
this, along with the doors and platoon, define stone's holy trinity.
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