{"id":5675,"date":"2009-05-20T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2009-05-20T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T21:00:30","slug":"the-legacy-of-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/05\/20\/the-legacy-of-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Oliver Stone<\/a> directed Wall Street<\/a><\/strong> (1987), it was a drama inspired by Regan-era insider dealing scandals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It became famous for Michael Douglas<\/a>‘ portrayal of corporate raider Gordon Gecko<\/a>, who coined the term ‘greed is good’.<\/p>\n

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But the law of unintended consequences<\/a> kicked in and – like Milton’s Satan<\/a> – the villain of the movie somehow became the hero to a generation of stockbrokers on Wall Street.<\/p>\n

Even later films such as Boiler Room<\/a> (2000), a parable about the 90’s stock market boom, saw their trader characters quote Gecko:<\/p>\n

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Douglas himself admitted that drunken traders would come up to him in restaurants and miss the entire point of the character.<\/p>\n

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When a sequel was announced in 2007<\/a>, it was presumably meant to be a milder depiction of the business (maybe even presenting Gecko as a vharming villain).<\/p>\n

But now, given that the Western world is reeling from an economic crisis inspired by the kind of greed Gecko loved, what will the new film look like?<\/p>\n

> Wall Street<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> Gordon Gecko<\/a>\u00a0and the sequel<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The legacy of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[972,141,971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}