Wall Street (1987 film)

Wall Street is a movie from 1987, which was produced and directed by Oliver Stone.

Action

The film takes place in 1985 in New York City. Hailing from a humble background, and aspiring yuppie stockbroker Bud Fox is working with the company Jackson Steinem & Co. He spends the working day in order to acquire customers for exchange transactions on the phone. As one of the customers in Deal gets cold feet, his boss makes him bear the losses. In his private life constantly revised Bud has no working relationship and lives in a tiny apartment in Manhattan. Besides his work, he tries on a permanent appointment with Gordon Gekko, to get a known " corporate raider ". With much persistence he finally succeeds, to be admitted for five minutes. During the first meeting, he tried to move Gekko to purchase certain stocks, but what he refuses. Fox can be finally carried away to disclose confidential information on the company "Blue Star". About this he possessed by his father, Carl, who works as a mechanic at the company and the workforce of the firm represents union. With this information it is possible Gekko to earn by means of the purchase of Blue Star shares lots of money quickly. Gekko rewards him with some money, a further contract and a call girl. When the next deal fails, says Gekko Bud that he saw no basis for cooperation. Bud asks Gekko for a second chance and he is asked to collect illegal insider information.

From then cooperates with the Fox Finanzhai and ends up as it were in the role of his pupil. Above all, learn Fox, that the key to success in the stock market in the procurement of insider information and their illegal use. So Fox is spying among others Larry Wildman, a competitor Gekko. The results of monitoring uses Gekko to make considerable wealth at the expense Wildmans. As a result, Gekko attracts the enmity Wildmans. By Gordon Gekko mediation Fox learns the friend of Gekko interior designer Darien Taylor know in which he falls in love. The newly acquired wealth allows Bud Fox to purchase a luxury penthouse apartment in Manhattan, which is set up by Darien Taylor, before both move in there together. Fox is Roger Barnes, a fellow lawyer, as a front man for share purchases and rises to within his company. The businesses are performing brilliantly - until Fox finally his " mentor " in a takeover of "Blue Star Airlines " to be interested in adoption searches, Gordon Gekko follow his plan to redevelop the economically ailing airline. Through the cooperation with Gekko occurs between father and son Fox to a rift.

The event is aimed at the very moment when Bud Fox learns by accident that Gekko "Blue Star Airlines " intends, because of the information conveyed by Fox to destroy pure profit motive. In a conversation in office Gekko Gekko Fox to task. Gekko, Fox, that it " would apply to coal " and that he considered making money at the expense of other than a game. Moral concerns would exist for him in any way. Fox's father suffers a heart attack. At the bedside it comes to reconciliation between Bud and his father. Fox decides to take revenge, and joins forces with Larry Wildman, with whose help he manages to defeat Gekko's plans. Wildman acquires a majority interest in Blue Star and promises to continue the business and to protect the jobs. At the same time he takes revenge on Gekko, since these large sums of money to lose. This only discovered too late that he was outwitted by Fox. Then Fox is arrested by police and Exchange Commission for insider trading. A key scene near the end of the film shows a recent encounter between Gekko and Fox on a meadow in Central Park, at the Gekko in the course of a Wutausbruchs the names of companies called, apparently in previous joint insider trading played a role. Gekko is disappointed not only for economic reasons by Bud because he has also developed paternal feelings for him. However, Gekko does not know that Fox has decided to cooperate with the authorities and wearing a recording device on your body.

The film ends with Carl Fox his son goes to court. Bud Fox expresses that he expects to go to jail. The father advises him to create something, instead of chasing illusions. He asks him for the post of jail a job at Blue Star prospect. The final scene shows how Bud Fox enters the building of the New York County Supreme Court ( Foley Square ).

Background

Models for Gordon Gekko were the two Wall Street millionaires Ivan Boesky and Carl Icahn. Their machinations are subject in the books, "Mr. Diamond "by Douglas Frantz and" Club of Thieves "by James B. Stewart. Ivan Boesky had in 1986 made ​​a speech shortly before his arrest for insider trading at a graduation ceremony of " Berkeley Business School ", the " greed is good" Gordon Gekko as a model of speech was. Literally Boesky said to applause and laughter of the graduates: "Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. " ( By the way, greed is in order. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still at peace with itself. ) In addition, Michael Robert was Milken, the "inventor" of junk bonds, a model. Oliver Stone shoots the film in 1987 and let him play in 1985, since 1985 and 1986, the scandals surrounding the insider information peaked. This led to the anachronism that the protagonists talk about the 1985 Challenger disaster, which occurred only in 1986.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film waiting for acting with shining moments and thematize the moral depravity of unscrupulous speculators on the New York Stock Exchange.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times of 11 December 1987, the film was a radical critique of capitalist mentality ( Stone's "Wall Street" is a radical critique of the capitalist trading mentality ). He criticized the screen presence of Charlie Sheen and wrote the role of Bud Fox should be filled by a performer who would greedy ( rapacious ) act - like James Spader.

Awards

For his portrayal of the character of the unscrupulous corporate raiders Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas was awarded for the best male lead with the second Oscar of his career; he had received as a producer of One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest his first Oscar.

Daryl Hannah on the other hand got for this movie the Razzie as worst supporting actress. Director Stone later regretted to have occupied the important role of Darien with Hannah.

Oliver Stone dedicated the film to his late father, who worked in the stock market as a broker. The figure of the more level-headed older Brokers Lou Mannheim, he has modeled his father.

Continuation

Referring again directed by Oliver Stone began on 9 September 2009, the filming of the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Michael Douglas plays again the role of Gordon Gekko, other roles were filled by Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin and Carey Mulligan. Charlie Sheen graduated from a cameo. The movie was released on 21 October 2010 in Germany and is now available on DVD and Blu -Ray.

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