During the boom years, he was fearful of making another film about the financial industry as he "didn't want to glorify pigs". The events of the past 18 months put him back to work, interviewing money managers, journalists and corporate crooks, piecing together the story for Wall Street 2. Filming began last week in New York.
In an interview with The New York Times, Stone said he had written Gekko as a monster, only for him to become a heroic figure in pop culture. Michael Douglas said he had the same experience and that it had "probably been the biggest surprise of my career that people say that this seductive villain has motivated me to go into this business.
Like Stone, Douglas was equally reluctant to make a sequel. It was the financial crisis and the behaviour it exposed which changed his mind. All the foot-dragging which had gone on for years turned into a sprint to make a film as evocative of the recent financial era as Wall Street was of the s. It is intended as a morality lesson, but ends up feeling more like a pep talk. At my old business school, Harvard, Gekko's speech electrified a snoozy morning class on leadership.
By the time Gekko was done berating the board of Teldar Paper, the entire class was grinning and alert. I am a liberator of them! Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of evolutionary spirit.
Greed in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, [for] 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. Crime Movies , Dramas , Award-winning Dramas. German, English [Original]. German, English.
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Top review. It diminishes it's excellent predecessor. I have mentioned before that director Oliver Stone seriously thought about retiring after Natural Born Killers.
That movie took so much out of him and I think the previous JFK did also in the aftermath of that film , that he said: "I don't think I have another one in me". At that time I thought he was crazy. But looking back at what he has made since NBK. The scenes of the release of Gekko are well done and set up for a nice premise.
But it all just falls apart. Or it really never gets going. Before , his films were raw, edgy and a little rebellious. World Trade Center, W. But they are not. Tame would be an understatement. Pleasing would be better. Oliver Stone has lost his will to fight. He's got bills probably a big house, swimming pool, alimony and stuff. He just wants a job and please the studio and the audience.
It almost looks like he doesn't want much hassle with his films after they come out. Wall Street 2 is such a disappointment I don't know where to start. Maybe the biggest let down was in the smallest amount of celluloid: the cameo of Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox.
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