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| Name of Work | Wall Street | ||||||||
| Production Date | 1987 | ||||||||
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| General Notes | Script lacks integration in areas -- there are holes regarding the raider (Gekko) and his relation to the airline he is buying, and some of the financial banter is economically incoherent. Also the Greed speech is mostly a positive statement about markets, yet the movie is anti-capitalist. | ||||||||
Description
The story of a young man who desires money so strongly he gets sucked into the sleazy world of illegal financial trading on Wall Street. A corporate raider who is the young broker's idol draws him into this world of making huge amounts of money by getting illegal information.
Theme
Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life
There are bad people in power who use ordinary people as pawns in their endless pursuit of money. Those who are not ruthless are sheep to be slaughtered by the rich and powerful. Greed is bad.
Context Information
Tags
greed
Related Media
Greed speech
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