Tonight we will bring you a classic movie ——Wall Street

Date: Oct 26,2011 Wednesday, 19:00

Place: szteam co-working office

Introduction

Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Daryl Hannah. The screenstory, characters and screenplay was written by Michael Apted, Jim Jarmusch, Akiva Goldsman, Richard Donner, Ehren Kruger, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Stanley Weiser, Jim Thomas, John Thomas and Stone. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (Sheen), a young stockbroker desperate to succeed who becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.

Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker during the Great Depression. The character of Gordon is said to be a composite of several people, including Owen Morrisey, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Ovitz, Michael Milken, and Stone himself. The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modelled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gordon, but he was not interested, and Stone wanted Richard Gere, though Gere passed on the role. Stone went with Douglas despite having been advised by others in Hollywood not to cast him.

The film was well-received among major film critics. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas’s character memorably declaring that “greed, for lack of a better word, is good”. It has also proven influential in inspiring people to work on Wall Street. Sheen, Douglas, and Stone have commented over the years that people still approach them and say that they became stockbrokers inspired by their characters in the film.

Cast

Splendid Lines

Gordon Gekko: When I get a hold of the son of a bitch who leaked this, I’m gonna tear his eyeballs out and I’m gonna suck his ing skull.

Carl Fox: Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It’s bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. Now you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you buddy? It’s the free market. And you’re a part of it. You’ve got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I’ve still got a lot to teach you.

Gordon Gekko: You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Bud Fox: How much is enough?

　　Gordon Gekko: It’s not a question of enough, pal. It’s a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred from one perception to another.