Wall Street trader tries to explain his job - The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

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  • @thehedgehogsdilemma9478
    @thehedgehogsdilemma9478 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    “Many a man has sold his soul for those crumbs.”
    LOL!!! That’s both dark, hilarious and profound all at the same time!

    • @laminage
      @laminage ปีที่แล้ว

      You got that right! When The Supremes played The Copacabana in New York in 1965, he was so desperate to get the "important" people, he allegedly paid the Liquor Tab for some folks, there was even rumours that The Mafia had an ownership and Smokey Robinson hated playing there. You did Three Shows on Saturday Night, 8:00 PM, 11:00 PM, and 2:00 AM. You didn't have a life.

  • @truthseeker3129
    @truthseeker3129 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Her condescension for his job is quite hypocritical since she lives off his money. It may not be morally pure but it takes some skill to do whatever the hell they do otherwise everyone would do it.

    • @bookerjones8123
      @bookerjones8123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In the book she says something half-snarky to the effect, "Don't misunderstand, I'm very grateful for those...crumbs" or something like that.

    • @laminage
      @laminage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bookerjones8123 I read the Book Version and Tom Wolfe was Straight A Gangsta when Reverend Reginald Bacon refused to give back a $350.000 Check to Two Young Men who represented the Business Affairs of a Church which was a Donation. I also loved A Man In Full. Gene Hackman could have played Charlie Crocker who is in denial over the fact that he's 1.3 Billion in debt.

    • @bookerjones8123
      @bookerjones8123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@laminage I read it too, and Hackman would've been perfect.

    • @laminage
      @laminage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bookerjones8123 Thanks for agreeing with me. Tom Hanks was all wrong for the part. He's too nice a guy. If there was one thing that I noticed is that him and Dominick Dunne (RIP) are brilliant at doing Movies about the fabulously wealthy. While Tom Wolfe does his Novels in the form of a Satire, Dominick shows how "cruel" folks can be when they are Rich. Did you ever read A Season In Purgatory, that was heavy.

    • @bookerjones8123
      @bookerjones8123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@laminage
      No, I haven't read that one, I've meant to and never got around to it. I've read a lot of Dunne's nonfiction essays, on OJ, of course, and his daughter's murder and other cases; I haven't gotten to much of his fiction, although I've read An Inconvenient Woman, People Like Us; he was a very good, passionate writer.

  • @r.d.493
    @r.d.493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This scene alone made the movie worth rental fee during the one time I saw the movie some 15 years after it was released.

  • @AManhattanite
    @AManhattanite 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    no he doesn't execute trades. he's most likely in the debt capital markets group. this group essentially helps companies issue bonds and is part of the investment banking division. they work with the traders to get the bonds sold but they do not trade. they keep some of the commission from the debt issuance.

  • @davidkunikis6687
    @davidkunikis6687 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Kirsten Dunst in the mutha-effin' house!!

    • @jaxcaulfield7071
      @jaxcaulfield7071 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow I never noticed before thank you!

  • @gardensofthegods
    @gardensofthegods 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I never even realize that was Kim Cattrall wow

  • @buffon114
    @buffon114 12 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    thats not a broker, hes an investment banker.. a bit of a difference

    • @Rainy_Day12234
      @Rainy_Day12234 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe the character of the book is an institutional bond salesman. An investment banker works with the client to issue the bonds and the salesperson finds another client that’s willing to buy them…he brokers those deals.

  • @williamshaw9047
    @williamshaw9047 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They talked about cutting this scene, but the head of the studio loved it and insisted it be left in, so they cut a scene where Sherman and his wife go to the opera.

  • @Topbitcoinexchanges
    @Topbitcoinexchanges 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The old man wasn't implying there was a golden age of blameless and harmless benevolence in finance capital. But there was an eye of financiers, bankers, traders on results translating in the real economy rather than playing with numbers and even destroying companies in cases of a lot of private equity activity.

    • @teledoink
      @teledoink ปีที่แล้ว

      So you’re saying that they planned the Great Depression?

  • @stax68
    @stax68  12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Changed to 'trader', which apparently is what the character was supposed to be. It's a bit confusing since he changes the subject to what bonds are issued for, while she makes it sound as if he executes trades for commission.

  • @imachavel
    @imachavel 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the firm invests, buys shares, and a broker trades and sells and 'brokers' the shares. Where is the fine line?

  • @laminage
    @laminage 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was The Actress ever in The Movie Fraternity Row with Scott Newman (RIP). She was a member of Gamma Nu Pie's Sister Sorority.

  • @Abr022575
    @Abr022575 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the kid is Kirsten Dunst

  • @michaelhegyan7464
    @michaelhegyan7464 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very fact base film...Hanks portrays a typical hugh fixed trader...on Wall St.

  • @latrolettteeeeeee
    @latrolettteeeeeee 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Samantha Jones and Mary Jane Watson in the same scene talking about cake.. Awkward/Disturbing.

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tom Hanks was considered to play Lester and Kirsten Dunst was considered to play Angela in American Beauty. Awkward/Disturbing.

  • @lincoln2324
    @lincoln2324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mary jane, samantha jones, john McClain and forrest gump? Nice!!!

  • @sharonburns2771
    @sharonburns2771 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In my mind the little red headed girl is Siobhan Roy

  • @pbrown239
    @pbrown239 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These days we are all picking up the "Golden Crumbs".

  • @olitomar
    @olitomar 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    holy shit that's kirsten dunst

  • @NBenjie
    @NBenjie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I thought this scene and her little take on cake is witty.

    • @NBenjie
      @NBenjie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      which a slice of golden cake sounds pretty good about now

  •  2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Waalstraat trader tries to explain his job-

  • @AnnieO100
    @AnnieO100 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The first will be last and the last will be first.

  • @listeniolistenio5160
    @listeniolistenio5160 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ward Churchill's explanation is better

  • @Sanathvarma
    @Sanathvarma 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is that Kirsten Dunst!?

    • @lpr5269
      @lpr5269 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes.

  • @charlesachurch7265
    @charlesachurch7265 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would have preferred Kyle Maclachlin have played Sherman.

  • @oreokookie1000
    @oreokookie1000 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Film not too believable...more waspy types would've been better.....ralph bellamy (trading places) would have done nicely as the father, and Hanks just doesn't cut it as the 30 - something bond trader wiz from Yale....Kelsey Grammer would be better, maybe bebe neuwirth as his aging society wife...the movie misses the subtle satire of the book entirely...de Palma turns it into a light sit- com...its not

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Chrysaura Wannabe reviewer is right. The Bonfire of the Vanities IS like Frasier, just edgier and New York realist.

    • @mas7230
      @mas7230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      id pick james spader!

  • @JimCaserta
    @JimCaserta 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The wife was an A student. The husband? B minus.

  • @forever_golfer1981
    @forever_golfer1981 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Golden crumbs = commissions and fees, for the lay people.

    • @petersonlafollette3521
      @petersonlafollette3521 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some priceless snippets on unrestricted capitalism and affluenza.

  • @scotchester2983
    @scotchester2983 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    😝You really haven't a clue about comic timing and cut-off Kim Catrell's scathing lead-in "What does daddy do".

  • @laminage
    @laminage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Isn't it amazing. Donald Moffat was in the LGBT Cult Classic Tales Of The City and Tom Hanks won an Oscar for playing a Gay Lawyer in Philadelphia.

  • @imachavel
    @imachavel 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    HAHAHAHAHAAHA hilarious!! Haha!

  • @laminage
    @laminage 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also Donald Moffat was in the updated version of Ordeal By Innocence based on the Novel by Agatha Christie. It had a VC Andrews Vibe to it. Boy talk about being dissed in front of Fam. Judy did it to get back at Sherman for cheating on her.

  • @robertwnorrisii9143
    @robertwnorrisii9143 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Inverse to her argument is a reality.

  • @robertlauter25
    @robertlauter25 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hillary

  • @daheikkinen
    @daheikkinen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a crumby scene

  • @dlperk5035
    @dlperk5035 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A rather crumby explanation if you ask me.