Wall Street * Quotes
Release date: 12/11/1987
Runtime: 126 min
"Wall Street" is a 1987 US drama film directed by Oliver Stone. The main roles are played by Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah.
The plot of the film revolves around the young and ambitious stockbroker Bud Fox (Sheen), who is determined to become a Wall Street insider. He meets the notorious and unscrupulous investor Gordon Gekko (Douglas) and manages to convince him to take him on as a client. Fox becomes one of his best employees and rises in the hierarchy. However, he soon has to realize that Gekko and his colleagues are conducting their business in an unethical and illegal manner. Fox is faced with the difficult decision of whether to sacrifice his moral principles and become part of the system or to take up the fight against Wall Street.
The film's cinematography was handled by Robert Richardson and features dynamic camera movements and quick cuts.
"Wall Street" is about a young stockbroker who wants to join the circle of Wall Street insiders and is confronted with moral dilemmas. The film exposes the machinations and greed of Wall Street while questioning the morality of business and the pursuit of success. The film received both positive reviews and commercial success, winning several awards, including an Oscar for Best Leading Actor for Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko.
The plot of the film revolves around the young and ambitious stockbroker Bud Fox (Sheen), who is determined to become a Wall Street insider. He meets the notorious and unscrupulous investor Gordon Gekko (Douglas) and manages to convince him to take him on as a client. Fox becomes one of his best employees and rises in the hierarchy. However, he soon has to realize that Gekko and his colleagues are conducting their business in an unethical and illegal manner. Fox is faced with the difficult decision of whether to sacrifice his moral principles and become part of the system or to take up the fight against Wall Street.
The film's cinematography was handled by Robert Richardson and features dynamic camera movements and quick cuts.
"Wall Street" is about a young stockbroker who wants to join the circle of Wall Street insiders and is confronted with moral dilemmas. The film exposes the machinations and greed of Wall Street while questioning the morality of business and the pursuit of success. The film received both positive reviews and commercial success, winning several awards, including an Oscar for Best Leading Actor for Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko.
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Tamara Tunie (Carolyn), Franklin Cover (Dan), Michael Douglas (Gordon Gekko), Charlie Sheen (Bud Fox), John C. McGinley (Marvin) (more...)
Movie Quotes
"The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do."
Lou Mannheim Hal Holbrook
"I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it."
Carl Fox Martin Sheen
"Sir Larry Wildman. Like all Brits, he thinks he was born with a better pot to piss in."
Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas
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"The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, 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. Thank you very much."
Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas
"Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate."
Bud Fox Charlie Sheen
"The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you."
Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas
"If you need a friend, get a dog."
Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas
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