Oliver Stone wrote Gordon Gekko to be the arch villain...problem is Michael Douglas played him so seductively almost every red blooded guy in his 20's and 30's came out of seeing the movie determined to become Gordon Gekko LOL
@@Pyrrhic537 You're mistaken. He's wealthy enough to avoid wasting time. He was referring to the concept of trading time for money with your typical 9-5 job. There are some remarkably dumb people in this world. Thanks for helping me understand that.
“And I’m not talking about some $400K working Wall Street stiff flying first class and being comfortable” --99 % of the audience wish they made that today! This was 1987, that’s like making $1mil a year today lol
That's what you're not following. Gordon is saying that most people aim too low, thinking the 400k salary is the pinnacle of existence, not knowing there is a completely different universe the truly wealthy live in. "rich enough not to waste time"
@AdityaKaul-dm8fk YES. People don't get it. My boss makes maybe $175,000 a year, owns a nice beautiful home and just bought a new truck. People at work think that's the pinnacle of success, and if they even strive for anything, THAT would be what they strive for. But to some people, my boss is a PAUPER. He's still hustling, still working 60+ hours a week. I tell them when you make millions per year from your assets and you make enough to have anything you want and still have millions to put into more assets, come talk to me. Otherwise, the boss is a nobody. Earns more than most nobodies, but still a nobody. When Gordo says enough money so that you don't have to waste time, he means so you don't have to work. Us humans have a limited amount of time on the earth, even if we live to be 110. The average person out there is throwing away precious hours of his life just to have a place to live and food to eat.
No. He said that $400k was comfortable. He meant that people aspire to get to that level then rest on their laurels. He was drilling into Bud what it takes to get to the next level. What it takes to get to being insanely wealthy.
Exactly remember when this movie was made (1987) 400K was a huge salary and he was making it sound small. In 2020 the line would be something like 1.5 million Wall Street working stiff flying first class and being comfortable.........
"Rich enough to have your own jet, Rich enough not to waste time ... A Player or Nothing" - probably one of the greatest movie scenes of all time - and there are few in this movie alone. EPIC.
I love how his limo and suit and shit are really dark and ominous in the scene and Charlie sheens suit is still light colour because he’s still honest atm
@@jerrygraves6531not to speak for him because who knows what he actually meant but what I read was completely different than what you interpreted. In the old cowboy movies the bad guys always were the black hats and the good guys wore the white hats. The Bible talks about the light vs the darkness...not a person's skin tone just the general idea of good vs evil.
I didn’t realize Geko and Bud actually came from similar backgrounds. Their Dad’s where both working class. Geko was a villainous character, but I think he genuinely liked Bud and saw some of himself in Bud. Was part of what made Geko a complex character who was fun to watch on screen.
I don't think so, I think Gekko was written as a literal psychopath, who has no empathy whatsoever. He just uses all the people in his surroundings for his advantage. He sees a useful tool in Bud, nothing more.
The way he talks is almost satanic. His feverish ramblings of power and wealth in an almost lustful yet seductive manner is brilliant acting on Douglas' part.
@@fatpotatoe6039 Gordon is satanic because he wants to make ten million dollars in manner that is legal by doing something to cause people to give him money of their own free will but it's totally cool that the feds are borrowing trillions in my name without my permission and burning the money in fiery pits and passing out what's left to all of their friends, leaving the bill to be paid for by yours and my kids while their kids are totally set financially. But oh yeah Gordon is satanic
Because it’s a salary that makes you content. There’s a big difference between $50-$100 million and a 400k salary. The former puts you in a different space. He talking about being a different league. Granted 400k is still nothing to scoff at in 2022, and in fact if you are doing pro rata, I’m sure 400k in 87 is not equivalent to a million now. Much more. NYC 87 was still a shithole and things were cheaper
Oh please..so I should be content with 100k? 200k? Or even 500k? That is nothing..like Gekko said..we need to be a player..rich enough to have a jet, a yacht, anything we want!
I'd say 400k in 1987 was more like 2 million today, even more. You could buy a serious home in Silicon Valley for 400k in 1987. Or enough Apple stock to make you worth 50 million now.
Point is that he " owns", most of the rich have a high salary and spends... then they loose the jobb and are just as broke as the rest. People are fooled to think that they are capitalist, but in reality the capitalists are the people who live of the dividends of the principal. Alot of people inherit a fortune but loose it because they live of the principal and not the dividends. And if they are realy stupid the levrage the capital, but stil have no dividends. So they go bust in the next bear market to. Easy come easy go
The key is to be an outsider on the inside. Then you can maintain your inner values, strengths, and independence. As an introvert, I've always been on the outside and it always sucks to get pushed back in because it stresses you out. But hey, as Gekko says - you're either in or you're out.
Amazing acting from Michael Douglas. At 0:28 you can tell Gordon gets emotional, probably from telling his father's story but you also get the sense that he really sees himself in Bud and wants to prepare him for Wall Street. Of course he's using him, but that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy Bud's company or see him as a friend/son...
Part of what makes his lines so memorable is how Michael manages to deliver his lines with a certain rhythm that feels like music to my ears. There's something with the way he ends his sentences which just feels right.
His performance gives off that sense of confidence and assuredness that makes what he says as the character believable. Not believable in the sense that we as the viewer necessarily believe in what he says, but the fact him saying as it Gordon Gekko sounds real. He truly immersed himself into the character. The most worthy best actor award Oscar of the 1980's.
R Lee Ermey said that he met a number of marines who told him they joined the Corps under the influence of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. I wonder how many joined Wall Street under the influence of Gordon Gekko.
Viewers like Gekko because a majority of them come from the lower class but have that yearning for success to be free and powerful. Gekko doesn't judge people by where they come from but on what they bring to the table. If Bud was a blue-blood analyst living comfortable but got bored and came to him with valuable information Gekko would still bring him on board just as much as a poor, smart, and hungry greenhorn.
People look up to Gekko, because people aren't very intelligent. Some people think he was a visionary, when all he was saying, were things that are clear and obvious. All people need to do is look around. I always thought people were joking, but now I've realised they're really being serious. Gekko was a pirate, he never gave a shit about jobs, the welfare of employees, contributing society; all he did was scratch the itch from his childhood, because he was raised poor (majority of people raised poor have this mentality). The scene with the captain (who himself came from humble beginnings) clearly showed this. The chip on his shoulder rose to the surface in that scene, when he found out the captain had 6x higher net-worth than him. Two men from similar backgrounds, with different mentalities. If you really want to point out a "hero" from this movie, then Lou is your guy. That being said, Michael Douglas played the shit out of his character. This was honestly one of the best performances by an actor in cinema history.
@@silentnight1805 Fuck your attitude. Who are you to judge people who take inspiration from Gekko's drive to better themselves - as if they can't judge morally.
The one line that always get me: Rich enough not to waste time. If you really think about this concept, it's mind blowing. Rich people actually squeeze more out of time that you or I will ever imagine. I fully believe the more rich you are, the more likely you would have lived 1.5x a life than normal people, just from time saved alone.
Uhh capitalism rewards the CLEVER as long as it's legal. No other economic system works how many more tens of millions of folks have to die to make a point? Goooo GORDON GEKKO!
@@AidanMclaren Really? Is TH-cam, the medium of which you are typing your broad nonsense statement to potentially millions of people that you'd never have a chance to do previously without spending tons of money corrupt? TH-cam a company owned by Google a trillion dollar company corrupt? And yet you get to pop off patently ignorant comments like "capitalism rewards the corrupt" via a medium the Roman Emperors would have loved to do---how aboutz you come up with a better economic system that DOESN'T have you at the top of it and we'll all evaluate whether humanity should switch it?
Seeing this movie in my 14 while knowing nothing about Wall Street and less about finances, I was impressed with Michael Douglas' performance big time.
I remember watching this scene as an 8 year old kid and within my innocence and ignorance and having no clue what they were talking about my intuition was so strong and discerning enough for me to turn around and tell my dad when I grow up I wanna be just like the guy on the left side of the screen
@@orvillemeadows3492 No, you can if you spend the rest of your life PERSONALLY handing out to the poor and truly needy with no political attachments AT ALL.
Using the means of accumulating wealth to then turn around and be a personal steward to the well being of others on a mass scale is the gift so valuable is unfathomable. Its why I believe lotteries should be split up into multiple and multiples of winners because it could be the seed money to great ideas and wider spread of good humanity. jmo.
The character of Gekko to a great degree is based on the Wall Street titan Ivan Boesky. Boesky was Jewish and from Detroit where his family owned deli's. He married into a wealthy family that owned the The Beverly Hills Hotel. He was often seen in the company of an underling bodyguard who was Iranian? perhaps the Mohammed reference. Boesky was famous for setting up a group of 300 contacts who he could push button speed dial on this 120 line phone for the latest insider information available on what stocks were in play. He did not do the usual 2/20 deal instead taking a hefty 50 percent fee cut on profits generated by his arbitrage fund's picks. He is famous I think for saying at a speech he gave at Berkley that "Greed is healthy." Boesky was brought down when one of his contacts, Dennis Levine, was piggybacked traded by someone well down the line in Colombia. Someone, a disgruntled gf perhaps, wrote a badly worded complaint letter to the SEC about the broker trader in Colombia and that one letter started the ball rolling that led to Levine being caught who then taped Boesky and he was caught and then he taped Miliken who was then caught.
$400,000 a year and sitting in first class on a plane sounds great to me. It doesn't sound great to Gordon Gekko because he is an asshole. He ended up destroying this young man, his father's company, and his own life. I can't see why anyone would want to see him as a hero.
That's mostly a cinematic failing on Stone's part if you ask me. We didn't even see the cuffs placed on Gordon after movie ended. Also, we saw how good Gekko was at shielding himself from Bud's financial activity by signing that non-disclosure earlier in the film. Somehow we're suppose to believe that dramatic rainy scene in Central Park was the coup de grace that took Gekko down.
So he's basically saying it's all about working smart, and not so much about working hard. This movie came out two months after the big 1987 stock market crash - it kind of showed how that happened with all the traders screwing people through greed.
Douglas deserved an Oscar for this performance. Whatever the accuracy, he captured what every average person imagines a Wall St ahole to be, and what they very well may be, except that Douglas is, of course, far better looking and charismatic, than the majority of Wall St aholes.
This was my favorite movie in the 1980s and led me to Wall Street after college. It’s amusing to see how dismissive GG is of a “$400,000 a year working Wall Street stiff”. Back then, that was a ton of money and when I got started I thought I’d be on easy street once I broke through the $600K a year barrier. Well, GG was right, it’s not enough.
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Oliver Stone wrote Gordon Gekko to be the arch villain...problem is Michael Douglas played him so seductively almost every red blooded guy in his 20's and 30's came out of seeing the movie determined to become Gordon Gekko LOL
Preach Gordon PREACH!
@brajamtho757 There is, if it involves swindling other people.
Well, good luck to them.
You cant have that may Gordon Gekkos :D
@brajamtho757 True, but simple greed isn't what the movie was about.
So true. Just like Walter White in Breaking Bad. A pure anti-hero.
'Rich enough not to waste time' - is truly great writing.
Yeah that line really made me rethink what truly is success.
What did he meant?
@@amorepsyche808Rich enough to be able to take a private jet and not waste time in the airport. To have everything you want when you want.
@@amorepsyche808 to not have to spend any of your limited allotment of time on this earth doing something that you don't want to do
@@Pyrrhic537 You're mistaken. He's wealthy enough to avoid wasting time. He was referring to the concept of trading time for money with your typical 9-5 job. There are some remarkably dumb people in this world. Thanks for helping me understand that.
That's it, enough of the clips. I'm putting the dvd in my player.
lol same af
I have the 25 year double DVD addition
Good
VHS, or nothing.
😂
"I'm talkin' about LIQUID"
“And I’m not talking about some $400K working Wall Street stiff flying first class and being comfortable” --99 % of the audience wish they made that today! This was 1987, that’s like making $1mil a year today lol
Perceptions. Rich and poor is relative. To some people, if you make a million a year, you are poor
Definitely one of them is Muhammed listening to their conversation
That's what you're not following. Gordon is saying that most people aim too low, thinking the 400k salary is the pinnacle of existence, not knowing there is a completely different universe the truly wealthy live in. "rich enough not to waste time"
@AdityaKaul-dm8fk YES. People don't get it. My boss makes maybe $175,000 a year, owns a nice beautiful home and just bought a new truck. People at work think that's the pinnacle of success, and if they even strive for anything, THAT would be what they strive for. But to some people, my boss is a PAUPER. He's still hustling, still working 60+ hours a week. I tell them when you make millions per year from your assets and you make enough to have anything you want and still have millions to put into more assets, come talk to me. Otherwise, the boss is a nobody. Earns more than most nobodies, but still a nobody. When Gordo says enough money so that you don't have to waste time, he means so you don't have to work. Us humans have a limited amount of time on the earth, even if we live to be 110. The average person out there is throwing away precious hours of his life just to have a place to live and food to eat.
Gordon made 400k sound like it was really 35 k a year. Dude was a bea$t LOL
POTUS earned 200 k back then . Of course most of them were multimillionaires before election ,so they didnt care about salary .
No. He said that $400k was comfortable. He meant that people aspire to get to that level then rest on their laurels. He was drilling into Bud what it takes to get to the next level. What it takes to get to being insanely wealthy.
$400K a year was a very hefty salary in 1987
Exactly remember when this movie was made (1987) 400K was a huge salary and he was making it sound small. In 2020 the line would be something like 1.5 million Wall Street working stiff flying first class and being comfortable.........
Right, and that was the 80s. 400k is about 900k now.
"Rich enough to have your own jet, Rich enough not to waste time ... A Player or Nothing" - probably one of the greatest movie scenes of all time - and there are few in this movie alone. EPIC.
Rich enough to end up in jail.
@@osman01003 Rich enough to buy the jail
Absolute truisms. ...Stone smoked on this screenplay and Douglas delivered it and made it come to life.
Greed is good
I’m so rich, I wear my clothes once because my time is worth more then washing them. XD
I love how his limo and suit and shit are really dark and ominous in the scene and Charlie sheens suit is still light colour because he’s still honest atm
Thats the cheap suit he wore when Gekko told him he can't come into the restaurant looking like that lol.
Racism is built into the language. What's so bad about darkness?
@@jerrygraves6531not to speak for him because who knows what he actually meant but what I read was completely different than what you interpreted.
In the old cowboy movies the bad guys always were the black hats and the good guys wore the white hats.
The Bible talks about the light vs the darkness...not a person's skin tone just the general idea of good vs evil.
Is not about who works the Hardest is about who makes the most intelligent decisions
If I was Bud Fox, I would have visited Gordan in prison just to say “if you’re not outside, then you’re inside”
ha ha
U do know these are fictional characters who only exist in Oliver Stones mind
It was a joke..
@@daveyboy_ Its still real to me dam it
savage.
Gordon Gekko is a legendary character.
True words, decades of 20 somethings have modeled their careers after Gekko.
I didn’t realize Geko and Bud actually came from similar backgrounds. Their Dad’s where both working class. Geko was a villainous character, but I think he genuinely liked Bud and saw some of himself in Bud. Was part of what made Geko a complex character who was fun to watch on screen.
I don't think so, I think Gekko was written as a literal psychopath, who has no empathy whatsoever. He just uses all the people in his surroundings for his advantage. He sees a useful tool in Bud, nothing more.
Gekko was so in the zone.
One of the greatest performances in cinema history
And the most sophisticated movie ever.
The way he talks is almost satanic. His feverish ramblings of power and wealth in an almost lustful yet seductive manner is brilliant acting on Douglas' part.
Gets me hard
Satanic? But he's not in government.
@@XxowendanxX Lmao spotted the libertarian I think ;)
@@fatpotatoe6039 Gordon is satanic because he wants to make ten million dollars in manner that is legal by doing something to cause people to give him money of their own free will but it's totally cool that the feds are borrowing trillions in my name without my permission and burning the money in fiery pits and passing out what's left to all of their friends, leaving the bill to be paid for by yours and my kids while their kids are totally set financially. But oh yeah Gordon is satanic
It’s alpha male 101. A killer, a lion
Gecko is more honest in his dishonesty than most honest people are in their honesty.
A player ... or nothing
The most ridiculous part of this is that $400,000 in 1987 is a million today and he talks about it like you might as well be homeless.
Because it’s a salary that makes you content. There’s a big difference between $50-$100 million and a 400k salary. The former puts you in a different space. He talking about being a different league. Granted 400k is still nothing to scoff at in 2022, and in fact if you are doing pro rata, I’m sure 400k in 87 is not equivalent to a million now. Much more. NYC 87 was still a shithole and things were cheaper
I don't know if you noticed but Gekko is what people would call greedy
Oh please..so I should be content with 100k? 200k? Or even 500k? That is nothing..like Gekko said..we need to be a player..rich enough to have a jet, a yacht, anything we want!
If 400k which is still a lot of money today is equal to a million, how much is 50-100mm in today’s dollars?
I'd say 400k in 1987 was more like 2 million today, even more. You could buy a serious home in Silicon Valley for 400k in 1987. Or enough Apple stock to make you worth 50 million now.
"If you are not inside, you are outside, okay?"
(Spends 23 years inside...)
sad but true
Well there is always a bigger fish playing the same game..
Prior to that he tasted a life you will never even get a whiff off
@@jacobjorgenson9285 true dat 😂😂
Gordon spent 8 years in Prison (not 23)
Damn...hands up if you don’t mind being the 400K working stiff flying first class...in 1987 dollars
I'd even take it in 2019 dollars!!
I'd take it in 2020!!!!
If you could instead be making hundreds of millions a year and owning your own private jet, that may be preferable.
Not when you can make $50-$100m in 1987 dollars. All or nothing.
Gordon didn't respect work.
Those are the Devil's words seductively coming out of Gekko's mouth. And I'm agnostic.
Doouglas took the extra speed talking classes for this role he said.
If you're not inside, you are outside, OK! - It is really as simple as that. Love Gekko for telling the truth!
Point is that he " owns", most of the rich have a high salary and spends... then they loose the jobb and are just as broke as the rest. People are fooled to think that they are capitalist, but in reality the capitalists are the people who live of the dividends of the principal. Alot of people inherit a fortune but loose it because they live of the principal and not the dividends. And if they are realy stupid the levrage the capital, but stil have no dividends. So they go bust in the next bear market to. Easy come easy go
The key is to be an outsider on the inside. Then you can maintain your inner values, strengths, and independence. As an introvert, I've always been on the outside and it always sucks to get pushed back in because it stresses you out. But hey, as Gekko says - you're either in or you're out.
Amazing acting from Michael Douglas. At 0:28 you can tell Gordon gets emotional, probably from telling his father's story but you also get the sense that he really sees himself in Bud and wants to prepare him for Wall Street. Of course he's using him, but that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy Bud's company or see him as a friend/son...
He took pain to think about his father's life
Part of what makes his lines so memorable is how Michael manages to deliver his lines with a certain rhythm that feels like music to my ears. There's something with the way he ends his sentences which just feels right.
His performance gives off that sense of confidence and assuredness that makes what he says as the character believable. Not believable in the sense that we as the viewer necessarily believe in what he says, but the fact him saying as it Gordon Gekko sounds real. He truly immersed himself into the character.
The most worthy best actor award Oscar of the 1980's.
He's right.
Gekko doing real talk here no BS!!
You have it backwards
R Lee Ermey said that he met a number of marines who told him they joined the Corps under the influence of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. I wonder how many joined Wall Street under the influence of Gordon Gekko.
Viewers like Gekko because a majority of them come from the lower class but have that yearning for success to be free and powerful. Gekko doesn't judge people by where they come from but on what they bring to the table. If Bud was a blue-blood analyst living comfortable but got bored and came to him with valuable information Gekko would still bring him on board just as much as a poor, smart, and hungry greenhorn.
Wrong, he lived in a flea pit apartment and stayed up all night analyzing charts.
Sorry, misread your comment.
People look up to Gekko, because people aren't very intelligent. Some people think he was a visionary, when all he was saying, were things that are clear and obvious. All people need to do is look around. I always thought people were joking, but now I've realised they're really being serious. Gekko was a pirate, he never gave a shit about jobs, the welfare of employees, contributing society; all he did was scratch the itch from his childhood, because he was raised poor (majority of people raised poor have this mentality). The scene with the captain (who himself came from humble beginnings) clearly showed this. The chip on his shoulder rose to the surface in that scene, when he found out the captain had 6x higher net-worth than him. Two men from similar backgrounds, with different mentalities. If you really want to point out a "hero" from this movie, then Lou is your guy. That being said, Michael Douglas played the shit out of his character. This was honestly one of the best performances by an actor in cinema history.
@@silentnight1805 Fuck your attitude. Who are you to judge people who take inspiration from Gekko's drive to better themselves - as if they can't judge morally.
@@silentnight1805 yeah yeah yeah whatever you say
One of the top performances of all time
Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen.
Gordon Gekko had the hairstyle of Ledgendary showtime Lakers head coach Pat Riley
Other way around 😉
The one line that always get me:
Rich enough not to waste time. If you really think about this concept, it's mind blowing. Rich people actually squeeze more out of time that you or I will ever imagine. I fully believe the more rich you are, the more likely you would have lived 1.5x a life than normal people, just from time saved alone.
Yes that’s the life we should live and aim for.
Exactly you get it everyone lives in different mini dimensions of realities.
A great scene, you can even apply it to actual life.
sure, maybe if you're Nancy Pelosi
50 to 100 million USD in 1987 would mean that would need 115 to 230 million today.
Some trivia, in 1974 Warren Buffet was worth $40 million and by 1985 he was worth $500 million.
Muhammad heard all of Gordon's deals and got rich too.
"Im talkin about LIQUID..........."
Or QUID, haha!
anyone else watched this movie like 10 times but still searches for the clips? LOL
Yes, and Top Gun too.
LOL!! I do, no doubt!! (The movie has so many iconic scenes and lines--amazing!!)
That smile at the end... Douglas finally has him, and he's glad Bud truly wants to be a player and not just a humper.
He made corruption sound so good 💯 quite the salesman
It's true though, everything he said.
That's the point. Capitalism rewards the corrupt.
Uhh capitalism rewards the CLEVER as long as it's legal. No other economic system works how many more tens of millions of folks have to die to make a point? Goooo GORDON GEKKO!
@@coryboy345 I create nothing...I own! :-)
@@AidanMclaren Really? Is TH-cam, the medium of which you are typing your broad nonsense statement to potentially millions of people that you'd never have a chance to do previously without spending tons of money corrupt? TH-cam a company owned by Google a trillion dollar company corrupt? And yet you get to pop off patently ignorant comments like "capitalism rewards the corrupt" via a medium the Roman Emperors would have loved to do---how aboutz you come up with a better economic system that DOESN'T have you at the top of it and we'll all evaluate whether humanity should switch it?
Seeing this movie in my 14 while knowing nothing about Wall Street and less about finances, I was impressed with Michael Douglas' performance big time.
One Of My Favorites Of Movies
Best movie ever made
Brilliant absolutely Brilliant.
Especially the part where he drew the contrast between the man in the suit and the Bum
thanks to this movie, it gave me the motivation to climb out the darkest pit in my life.
I hate Gekko's character but I love his suits lol.. He definitely dresses well!
I remember watching this scene as an 8 year old kid and within my innocence and ignorance and having no clue what they were talking about my intuition was so strong and discerning enough for me to turn around and tell my dad when I grow up I wanna be just like the guy on the left side of the screen
and? what happened? You can't just leave it there lol
@@zainm5919 He ended up just as he wished. His dreams came true.
You can if you’re not bothered by how
@@orvillemeadows3492 No, you can if you spend the rest of your life PERSONALLY handing out to the poor and truly needy with no political attachments AT ALL.
Using the means of accumulating wealth to then turn around and be a personal steward to the well being of others on a mass scale is the gift so valuable is unfathomable.
Its why I believe lotteries should be split up into multiple and multiples of winners because it could be the seed money to great ideas and wider spread of good humanity.
jmo.
its unreal how this movie is real
Wake up will ya pal??
Probably the best dialogue scripted film ever.
Every time I see this movie all I can think of is the book “where are the customer’s yachts”
Did Mike Douglas win an Oscar for this role? It's just so fucking brilliant yo
YES...HE DID....look it up.
It was probably before you were thought about!😮
the guy whom gekko compared to the homeless was prob a 400k stiff suit
Great movie.
"Stay happy" - G.G
"If you're not inside, you are outside " so true
My fav line
Is judgement is rapidly approaching...many will not be ready!
Will you?
Jesus Christ is the only way!
A bearded jew from the desert, sure, whatever tickles you
you're not inside you're outside!!!
Fantastic film.
Love the fact that his driver's name is Mohammed! LOL!
The character of Gekko to a great degree is based on the Wall Street titan Ivan Boesky. Boesky was Jewish and from Detroit where his family owned deli's. He married into a wealthy family that owned the The Beverly Hills Hotel. He was often seen in the company of an underling bodyguard who was Iranian? perhaps the Mohammed reference. Boesky was famous for setting up a group of 300 contacts who he could push button speed dial on this 120 line phone for the latest insider information available on what stocks were in play. He did not do the usual 2/20 deal instead taking a hefty 50 percent fee cut on profits generated by his arbitrage fund's picks. He is famous I think for saying at a speech he gave at Berkley that "Greed is healthy." Boesky was brought down when one of his contacts, Dennis Levine, was piggybacked traded by someone well down the line in Colombia. Someone, a disgruntled gf perhaps, wrote a badly worded complaint letter to the SEC about the broker trader in Colombia and that one letter started the ball rolling that led to Levine being caught who then taped Boesky and he was caught and then he taped Miliken who was then caught.
I need to stop wasting time in First Class feeling comfortable and become rich enough to have my own jet!!
As an advocate for the underdog, I can tell you Bud has what it takes to be a player!
Love this Movie!
Just watched this for the first time on Disney Plus. The dialogue and scripting is superb
On disney plus??
@@MisterMoreno10457 part 1 and 2 are on there 😯😅
You cut the video too short. By about 10 seconds.
If you're not inside, you are outside...
You had what I took to get in my office,the question is if you got what it takes to stay...
Mike Douglas freakin' awesome as GG
$400,000 a year and sitting in first class on a plane sounds great to me. It doesn't sound great to Gordon Gekko because he is an asshole. He ended up destroying this young man, his father's company, and his own life. I can't see why anyone would want to see him as a hero.
That's mostly a cinematic failing on Stone's part if you ask me. We didn't even see the cuffs placed on Gordon after movie ended. Also, we saw how good Gekko was at shielding himself from Bud's financial activity by signing that non-disclosure earlier in the film. Somehow we're suppose to believe that dramatic rainy scene in Central Park was the coup de grace that took Gekko down.
Ummmm, that's capitalism champ
This scene must’ve been shot in one take, his cigarette barely budged.
It's not exactly nuanced writing or acting: blunt words delivered bluntly
“I bet you were up all night analyzing that dogshit stock you gave me huh? Where did it get you?”
Yup, “work” is definitely overrated…
Gordon Gekko...sounds like a video game character.
So he's basically saying it's all about working smart, and not so much about working hard. This movie came out two months after the big 1987 stock market crash - it kind of showed how that happened with all the traders screwing people through greed.
"if you are not inside, your outside"
Gekko is my hero
"I'm talking about liquid!"
After spotting the homeless and rich guy, gekko tells "Mohamed" to pull over. The subtle details are all over this movie.
Best part
Liquid that’s what i am talking about
Micheal Douglas stole this movie. He was fantastic.
thanks to the 'rona, we're all on the inside now!
ba dum tiss
Shiiieeeet.... He went there
My how times change, $50-$100mill is nothing these days
I want to go back to the 80s’ so bad. Life was amazing.
50 100MILLION DOLLAR US PLAYER
only villain that you can't hate and wanna become jeez he's so honest that you can't fault him.
Douglas deserved an Oscar for this performance. Whatever the accuracy, he captured what every average person imagines a Wall St ahole to be, and what they very well may be, except that Douglas is, of course, far better looking and charismatic, than the majority of Wall St aholes.
Fuck hard work. It gets you NOWHERE!
That's a 100 percent fact.
now we know in 2020 what a President Gordon Gekko would be like.
Just watch wall street 2010 barber shop scen
They met!
Gecko was cooler than Trump, he had his wits about him and he knew how to play people.
@@mapleva Trump in reality was amazing for the stock market
@@mapleva Trump did the same thing... Trump basically made people who hate him... vote for him.
BEST MONOLOGS SINCE THANOS!!!!
This scene and the initial meeting in gg’s office are the best!
You could see the killer instinct in gekko throughout the movie. One of michael Douglas best performances
so much game in this movie, wow.
anti climatic ending
This reminds me of the "Seduced into corruption" scene from '99 Homes'.
This would be day one in my kindergarten class along with a game of chess and a game of monopoly.
This was my favorite movie in the 1980s and led me to Wall Street after college. It’s amusing to see how dismissive GG is of a “$400,000 a year working Wall Street stiff”. Back then, that was a ton of money and when I got started I thought I’d be on easy street once I broke through the $600K a year barrier. Well, GG was right, it’s not enough.
Just take your place in the Driver's Seat ..
Learnt to wish happy birthday
They must play this clip for all new members of Congress.