Wall Street
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Directed by	Oliver Stone
Produced by	Edward R. Pressman
Written by	Stanley Weiser Oliver Stone
Starring	Charlie Sheen Michael Douglas Daryl Hannah Martin Sheen
Music by	Stewart Copeland
Cinematography	Robert Richardson
Editing by	Claire Simpson
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	December 11, 1987
Running time	125 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$43,848,100 (USA)
Followed by	Money Never Sleeps
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Wall Street is an American film released in 1987. It was directed by Oliver Stone, and features Michael Douglas in the role that won him an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas as the "Master of the Universe." Wall Street was written by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Wall Street (1929) was a movie produced by Harry Cohn, directed by Roy William Neill, and which starred Ralph Ince, Aileen Pringle, Sam De Grasse, Philip Strange, and Freddie Burke Frederick. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 183 KB) Wall Street Sign. ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... Edward R. Pressman (born 1943) is a film producer. ... Charles Irwin Sheen (born September 3, 1965 as Carlos Irwin Estévez ) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... For other people bearing this name, see Michael Douglas (disambiguation) Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. ... Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress. ... Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police and is an influential drum stylist. ... Robert Bridge Richardson (born 27 August 1955 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) is an American cinematographer. ... Claire Simpson is the Academy Award-winning British film editor of the Oliver Stone-directed motion picture, Platoon (as well as editor of Oliver Stones Salvador and Wall Street) and winner of the prestigious BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing for The Constant Gardener. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... For other people bearing this name, see Michael Douglas (disambiguation) Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... For other uses, see Archetype (disambiguation). ...

Plot synopsis

The story involves a young stockbroker, Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen), who is desperate to get to the top. He settles on a plan to become involved with his hero, the extremely successful and wealthy but unscrupulous corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). A Stock broker sells or buys stock on behalf of a customer. ... Charles Irwin Sheen (born September 3, 1965 as Carlos Irwin Estévez ) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ... A corporate raid is a business term, sometimes also referred to as breaking a company. ... Gordon Gekko, portrayed by Michael Douglas. ...

After succeeding in attaining an audience with Gekko, Fox proposes a number of stock tips, all of which are soundly rejected. As a desperate last attempt to earn Gekko's favor, Fox gives him a stock tip based on secret insider information he obtained from his father, Carl (Martin Sheen, Charlie's real-life father). Carl is a maintenance chief at a small airline, Bluestar, who learns that they will soon be cleared of a safety concern after a previous crash. Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ...

Gordon Gekko

Fox quickly learns that this is the secret to Gekko's success—insider information—and the illegalities and ethical conflict bother him only slightly as he is quickly admitted into Gekko's inner circle. Gekko takes Fox under his wing and he quickly becomes very wealthy, enjoying Gekko's promised perks, including the fancy apartment and the trophy blonde interior decorator Darien (Daryl Hannah). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Insider trading is the trading of a corporations stock or other securities (e. ... Interior decoration or décor is the art of decorating a room so that it is attractive, easy to use, and functions well with the existing architecture. ... Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress. ...

Things change when Gekko decides to liquidate Bluestar, an act that would leave Carl and the entire Bluestar staff out of work. Wracked with the guilt of being an accessory to Bluestar's destruction, Fox takes up smoking (a habit he often chastised his father for having), angrily breaks up with Darien, and finally resolves to stop Gekko's plans. Fox devises a plan in which he will manipulate Bluestar's stock value so that Gekko will decide to sell off his stock in the company, which will then be picked up at a lower price by Gekko's rival, corporate raider Sir Lawrence Wildman (Terence Stamp), who will become the new majority shareholder. Gekko, realizing that his stock is plummeting, lashes out furiously at Fox and finally decides to dump his remaining stock in the company. Only later does Gekko learn that Fox engineered the entire scheme. Liquidation, or winding up, refers to a business whose assets are converted to money in order to pay off debt. ... Terence Stamp (born July 22, 1939) is an English actor. ...

The next day, Fox happily returns to the office, where everyone is in a somber mood. Upon arriving at his desk, Fox is greeted by law enforcement officials and a representative of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who informs Fox that he is under arrest for violation of federal securities laws. Fox is handcuffed and led out of the office in tears. The Securities and Exchange Commission, commonly referred to as the SEC, is the United States governing body which has primary responsibility for overseeing the regulation of the securities industry. ...

Later, Fox confronts Gekko in Central Park. Gekko viciously assaults Fox, and in the process mentions several businesses that Fox helped him raid. Fox was wearing a wire, and the police presumably use the recording as state's evidence against Gekko, although Gekko's fate is left ambiguous. The film ends with Bud arriving at the courthouse, ready to atone for his crimes. Immunity, also known as transactional immunity, confers a status on a person or body that places them beyond the law and makes that person or body free from otherwise legal obligations such as, for example, liability for torts or damages or prosecution under criminal law for criminal acts. ...

Production

After the success of Platoon, Stone began researching a movie about quiz show scandals in the 1950s. However, at lunch with a film school friend and Los Angeles screenwriter Stanley Weiser, Stone heard an idea for a film idea that could be "Crime and Punishment on Wall Street--two guys abusing each other on Wall Street."^[1] The director had been thinking about this kind of a movie as early as 1981. He knew a New York businessman who was making millions and working long days putting together deals all over the world. This man started making mistakes that cost him everything. Stone remembers that the "story frames what happens in my movie, which is basically a Pilgrim’s Progress of a boy who is seduced and corrupted by the allure of easy money. And in the third act, he sets out to redeem himself."^[1] Stone and Weiser began researching the world of stock trading, junk bonds and corporate takeovers. They met a lot of powerful Wall Street movers and shakers. Weiser wrote the first draft, initially called Greed, with Stone writing another draft. Originally, the lead character was a young Jewish broker named Freddie Goldsmith but Stone changed it to Bud Fox to avoid the misconception that Wall Street was controlled by Jews (although many Jews also have Fox as a last name, usually an "Anglicization" of "Fochs" or "Fuchs"). According to Weiser, Gekko’s style of speaking was inspired by Stone. "When I was writing some of the dialogue I would listen to Oliver on the phone and sometimes he talks very rapid-fire, the way Gordon Gekko does."^[1] Platoon is an Academy Award winning 1986 Vietnam War film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and John C. McGinley. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... For other uses, see Crime and Punishment (disambiguation). ... The Pilgrims Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan (published, February, 1678) is a Christian allegory. ...

Casting

Stone met Tom Cruise who expressed an interest in playing Bud Fox but the director had already committed to Charlie Sheen for the role.^[1] Michael Douglas had just come off heroic roles like the one in Romancing the Stone and was looking for something darker and edgier. The studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko but he was not interested.^[1] Stone initially wanted Richard Gere but the actor passed and the director went with Douglas but had been warned by others in Hollywood not to cast him. Stone remembers, "I was warned by everyone in Hollywood that Michael couldn't act, that he was a producer more than an actor and would spend all his time in his trailer on the phone," but the director found out that "when he's acting he gives it his all."^[2] The actor remembers that when he first read the screenplay, "I thought it was a great part. It was a long script, and there were some incredibly long and intense monologues to open with. I’d never seen a screenplay where there were two or three pages of single-spaced type for a monologue. I thought, whoa! I mean, it was unbelievable."^[1] For research, he read profiles of corporate raiders, T. Boone Pickens and Carl Icahn. Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Romancing the Stone is an American 1984 action-adventure film. ... Henry Warren Beatty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... Richard Tiffany Gere[1] (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. ... ... T. Boone Pickens, Jr. ... Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. ...

Stone cast Daryl Hannah as Bud Fox’s materialistic girlfriend, who had problems relating to her character and struggled with the role. The director was aware early on that she was not right for the role and remarked, "Daryl Hannah was not happy doing the role and I should have let her go. All my crew wanted to get rid of her after one day of shooting. My pride was such that I kept saying I was going to make it work."^[1] Stone also had difficulties with Sean Young who made her opinions known that Hannah should be fired and she should play her role instead. Young would show up to the set late and unprepared. She also did not get along with Charlie Sheen which also caused friction on the set. In retrospect, Stone felt that Young was right and he should have swapped roles between her and Hannah.^[1] Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress. ... Mary Sean Young (born in Louisville, Kentucky on November 20, 1959) is an American actress. ...

Principal photography

Stone wanted to shoot the movie in New York City and that required a budget of at least $15 million. The studio that backed Platoon felt that it was too risky a project to bankroll and passed. Stone and producer Edward R. Pressman took it to 20th Century Fox who loved it and filming began in May 1987. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Edward R. Pressman (born 1943) is a film producer. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...

According to Stone, he was "making a movie about sharks, about feeding frenzies. Bob [director of photography Robert Richardson] and I wanted the camera to become a predator. There is no letup until you get to the fixed world of Charlie’s father, where the stationary camera gives you a sense of immutable values."^[1] Robert Bridge Richardson (born 27 August 1955 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) is an American cinematographer. ...

Jeffrey "Mad Dog" Beck, a star investment banker at the time with Drexel Burnham Lambert, was one of the film's technical advisers and has a cameo appearance in the film as the man speaking at the meeting discussing the breakup of Bluestar. Within two years of the film's release, his star would fall as The Wall Street Journal ran an article exposing many things he had led people to believe about himself (that he was an heir to the Beck brewing family fortune and that he had served in the Vietnam War) as fabrications. Drexel Burnham Lambert was one of the most profitable Wall Street investment banking firms during the late 1970s and most of the 1980s. ... A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television. ... The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York City, New York, USA, with Asian and European editions, and a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million as of 2006, with 931,000 paying online subscribers. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...

Investment banker and former deputy mayor of New York for Finance and Economic Development, Kenneth Lipper was also hired as a technical adviser. He agreed to work on the film only after reading the screenplay and finding that it was a fair representation of Wall Street.^[3] He had input on the screenplay. For example, he argued that it was unrealistic to have all the characters be "morally bankrupt."^[3] Lipper advised Stone on the kind of computers used on the trading floor, the correct proportion of women at a business meeting, and the kinds of extras that should be seated at the annual shareholders meeting where Gekko delivers his "Greed is good" speech.^[3] Stone also had Lipper write the film's novelization and gave him three cameos: at the lunch table at the 21 Club, in the rapid-fire montage depicting the bidding war over Annicott Steel, and at the meeting where Bud Fox learns that Bluestar will be liquidated. Kenneth Lipper is a prominent figure in the arts, in the world of finance, and in government. ... The 21 Club is a restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. ...

Original cut

The first version of the film had a 160-minute running time, as opposed to 120 minutes for the theatrical release.

Most of the 40 minutes cut involved a subplot in which Bud has an affair with Gekko's wife, Kate (Sean Young). As a result, Young's appearance in the film is greatly diminished. It does, however, explain why Gekko is so angry with Bud in their confrontation at the film's climax.

Other cut scenes explain that Darien began her career as a call girl, the basis for Carl Fox telling off his son with "I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up with no whore," and the umbrage Bud takes at it. And yet another one explains how Bud becomes president of Bluestar without giving up his position at the brokerage firm, something that seems highly implausible in the final cut. A call girl is a prostitute who is not visible to the general public, like a street walker, and who does not usually belong to an institution like a brothel. ...

Penn Jillette originally had a role as a stock trader, but was cut out. He claimed on his radio show, Penn Radio, (04-14-06) that he believed at the time that he was cut for time purposes, but looking back, he felt his performance was probably just inadequate. He also said that he did not get along with Stone. Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955 in Greenfield, Massachusetts) is an American comedian, illusionist, juggler and writer known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team known as Penn & Teller. ... Penn Radio was an hour-long talk radio show, debuting January 3, 2006, hosted by Penn Jillette and Michael Goudeau and produced by Happy Jack Landreth and Patrick DiFazio. ...

Reaction

In his review for the New York Times, Vincent Canby praised Douglas' work as "the funniest, canniest performance of his career."^[4] Rita Kempley in the Washington Post wrote that the film "is at its weakest when it preaches visually or verbally. Stone doesn't trust the time-honored story line, supplementing the obvious moral with plenty of soapboxery."^[5] The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – September 15, 2000) was an American film critic. ... ...

Themes

Conflicts

Wall Street defines itself through a number of morality conflicts putting wealth and power against simplicity and honesty.

Carl's (Martin Sheen's) character represents the working class in the film: he is the union leader for the maintenance workers at Bluestar. He constantly attacks big business, money, mandatory drug screening and greedy manufacturers and any thing that he sees as a threat to his union. The conflict between Gekko's relentless pursuit of wealth and Carl Fox's leftward leanings form the basis of the film's subtext. This subtext could be described as the concept of the two fathers battling for control over the morals of the son, a concept Stone had also used in Platoon. Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... A trade union or labor union is an organization of workers. ... For other uses, see Concept (disambiguation). ... Platoon is an Academy Award winning 1986 Vietnam War film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and John C. McGinley. ...

In Wall Street the hard-working Carl Fox and the cutthroat businessman Gordon Gekko represent the fathers. The producers of the film use Carl as their voice in the film, a voice of reason amid the creative destruction brought about by Gekko's unrestrained free-market philosophy. Creative destruction, introduced in 1942 by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, describes the process of transformation that accompanies radical innovation. ...

'Greed is Good'

Gordon Gekko delivers his "Greed is Good" speech to the shareholders of a company he is attempting to take over.

Arguably the most memorable scene in the film is a speech by Gekko to a shareholders' meeting of Teldar Paper, a company he is planning to take over. Stone uses this scene to give Gekko, and by extension, the Wall Street raiders he personifies, the chance to justify their actions, which he memorably does, pointing out the slothfulness and waste that corporate America accumulated through the postwar years and from which he sees himself as a "liberator": Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Elaborate marble facade of NYSE as seen from the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets For other uses, see Wall Street (disambiguation). ... Corporate America is an informal phrase describing both the independent for-profit and independent non-profit world of corporations within the United States not under government ownership. ...

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right; greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

His truncated catchphrase from the speech, "Greed is good," came to symbolise what some describe as the ruthless, profit-obsessed, simplistic, Ayn Randish, short-term corporate "philosphy" of the 1980s and 1990s and by extension became associated with unrestrained liberistic, Chicago-school economic policies. Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher,[1] known for creating a philosophy she named Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and the...

The inspiration for the "Greed is good" speech seems to have come from two sources. The first part, where Gekko complains that the company's management owns less than three percent of its stock, and that it has too many vice presidents, is taken from similar speeches and comments made by Carl Icahn about companies he was trying to take over. The defense of greed is a paraphrase of the May 18, 1986 commencement address at the UC Berkeley's School of Business Administration, delivered by arbitrageur Ivan Boesky (who himself was later convicted of insider-trading charges), in which he said, "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." Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. ... Look up Paraphrase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets: a combination of matching deals are struck that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices. ... Ivan Frederick Boesky (born March 6, 1937, in Detroit) was notable for his prominent role in a Wall Street insider trading scandal that occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s. ...

Ultimately the "Greed is Good" speech could be seen as related to what Adam Smith concluded about human nature. Smith believed that in general honest people freed to pursue their own interest would fare better than they would under a system that dictated what was "good." In the process, persons pursuing their own interests would eliminate inefficiencies and allocate commodities where they would benefit the greater society. For other persons named Adam Smith, see Adam Smith (disambiguation). ...

Wall Street is not a wholesale criticism of the capitalist system, but of the cynical, quick-buck culture of the 1980s. The 'good' characters in the film are themselves capitalists, but in a more steady, hardworking sense. In one scene, Gekko scoffs at Bud Fox's question as to the moral value of hard work, quoting the example of his (Gekko's) father, who worked hard his entire life and died in relative mediocrity. Fox's stockbroker boss (played by Hal Holbrook) as an archetype old man mentor, says early in the film, that "good things sometimes take time", referring to IBM and Hilton - in contrast, Gekko's 'Greed is Good' credo typifies the short-term view prevalent in the 80s. In economics, a capitalist is someone who owns capital, presumably within the economic system of capitalism. ... Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. ... For other uses, see Archetype (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ... Hilton Hotels Corporation headquarters in Beverly Hills Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE: HLT) is one of the leading global hospitality companies. ...

Errors

Anachronism

In the first shot of the film, showing the large expanse of the a trading floor, the year is noted as 1985. Moments later a character comments sarcastically on how a broker (Gekko) had shorted NASA stock 30 seconds after the Challenger exploded. The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in January, 1986, after the events of the beginning of the film. Stone later explained that the "1985" title at the beginning was added after production was finished, to locate the film in a time before the mid-'80s insider-trading scandals began to break. However, when Bud checks his computer's date book on the day he meets Gekko, the year is again given as 1985. It has been suggested that Short (finance) be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about the American space agency. ... Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASAs second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia being the first. ...

In any case, the character was clearly making a joke: NASA is a governmental agency and not a publicly traded company.

Economics

At one point Gekko is giving a speech during which point he says "money cannot be created or destroyed", which is not necessarily correct since money can be created through the deposit credit multiplier effect. Although Gekko followed by stating that the money was simply transferred from one perception to another. The stock market is also not necessarily a "zero-sum" game. Gekko's "zero-sum" assertion ignores one of the largest drivers of wealth creation, which is increased capital or labor productivity. However, it seems likely that the statement was merely a reflection of Gekko's belief in a competitive capitalistic environment where his challenge is no longer in making himself wealthy, but in defeating his rivals. Money creation is the process by which the money supply of a country is increased. ...

Miscellaneous

In real life, someone in Bud's position would not be arrested in his crowded office (although that did happen in a few cases) but instead would be quietly brought in away from work, in order to keep the news from spreading if, as in this situation, they wanted the arrestee to cooperate in order to get to the investigation's ultimate target.

It is thus highly unlikely that Gekko would talk to Bud after his arrest since word travels fast on Wall Street and he would naturally assume that Bud would be wearing a wire.

In the film's final shot, Bud is shown walking up the steps of the state court building in Foley Square to his sentencing. Insider trading is a federal charge, the investigators chasing after him have been from the federal SEC, and thus he should be going into the adjacent federal court building. Foley Square is a city park situated in lower Manhattan on the site of the historic Five Corners neighborhood and named after a prominent Tammany Hall district leader and local saloon owner, Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925). ... In law, a sentence forms the final act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. ... The United States federal courts are the system of courts organized under the Constitution and laws of the federal government of the United States. ...

References in popular culture

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• 1993's Hot Shots! Part Deux had a scene where Charlie Sheen was seen on a boat going up a river, writing a letter as we heard his voiceover narration from Platoon. In further acknowledgement of that, another boat passes in the opposite direction with Martin Sheen himself reciting his narration from Apocalypse Now. As the craft pass, father and son simultaneously shout at each other, "I loved you in Wall Street!"

• In the 2000 film Boiler Room, some of the young stockbrokers in that film are shown watching Wall Street on video. During the scene where Bud goes to Gekko's office for the first time and listens as he converses on the phone about the CEO of a company he is considering taking over, they turn down the volume and recite his lines ("Their quarterlies are for shit! ... If this guy owned a funeral parlor, nobody would die!!!") in unison.

• Future Stock, an episode of the animated television series Futurama, takes much of its inspiration from Wall Street.^{[citation needed]}

• In a 2005-06 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a Professor tells Detectives Goren and Eames his alibi saying that he was screening Wall Street for his class in business ethics.

• In the famous British sitcom Only Fools And Horses, main character Del Boy revamps his image and bases himself on Gordon Gekko at the start of series 6. ^{[citation needed]}

• In an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program there is a scene in which a young girl recites Gordon Gekko's famous "Greed is Good" scene.

• In the PC game Warcraft III, typing the cheat "greedisgood X" will give you Gold and Lumber equivalent to the value of X

• In the Wario World GameCube commercial, the "Greed is Good" theme is paraodied.

• In the televsion serial Chuck in the episode Chuck vs. the Sandworm, the character Morgan is addressed by the phrase, "Hey you in the Gordon Gekko costume."

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DVD

A 20th Anniversary Edition was released on September 18, 2007. New extras include an on-camera introduction by Stone, extensive deleted scenes, "Greed is Good" featurettes, and new on-camera interviews with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen.^[6]

Sequel

On Saturday May 5, 2007, the New York Times reported that a sequel film entitled, Money Never Sleeps, is currently in pre-production. Michael Douglas will reprise his role as Gordon Gekko; however, both Charlie Sheen and Oliver Stone will be absent from the sequel.^[7] A copy of the mocked up film poster has recently been leaked to a number of blog sites [1] and shows Albert Finney and Mischa Barton starring alongside Douglas. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... For other uses, see Sequel (disambiguation). ... Pre-production is the process of preparing all the elements involved in a film, play, or other performance. ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. ... Mischa Anne Barton (born January 24, 1986) is an English-born American actress and fashion model, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper on the former Fox television teen drama series // Barton was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to Nuala (Quinn), a photographer, and Paul Marsden Barton, a stockbroker. ...

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