Wall Street Page #2

Synopsis: Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that "Greed is Good". Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of "yuppies", shady business deals, the "good life", fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
R
Year:
1987
126 min
4,994 Views


Your mother still

makes lousy spaghetti.

It's called pasta now.

Spaghetti's out-of-date.

So am I.

You want a beer?

Yeah.

A Molson Light

for the kid!

He's looking good.

He looks terrific.

Carl, we'll be at the bar.

Nice seeing you, Buddy.

Take care.

You look like

you've grown another inch,

but you don't look so hot,

Buddy.

Starting to get bags under your eyes

like your old man.

I had a tough day.

Some jerk D.K. Ed me.

I got to cover his losses.

Speak English.

D.K. Didn't know

who I was

when the options he bought

took a bath.

I warned you

about that racket.

You could have been

a doctor or lawyer.

If you'd stayed

at Bluestar,

you could have been a supervisor

instead of a salesman.

I am not a salesman,

I'm an account executive.

Soon I'll be

in the investment banking side.

You ask strangers

for money,

you're a salesman.

I'm building

a client list!

I could make more money

in one year as a broker

than I could in five years

at this airline.

You borrow money

to go to NYU.

You made 50 grand

last year.

You still can't

pay off your loans!

in the Big Apple.

parking,

three bills a month,

good suits

Live rent-free

at home.

$50,000! Jesus Christ!

The whole world's off its rocker!

I made a total

of $47,000 last year.

That's before taxes.

That's Queens!

A 5% mortgage

And you rent the top room!

I got to live in Manhattan

to be a player.

There's no nobility

in poverty anymore.

One day you'll be

proud of me.

It's yourself you got to be proud of,

huckleberry.

How much you need?

Can you spare 300?

I don't know if

I got that much on me.

Not in here, please.

It adds up.

You know 300 here,

Well, money's only

something you need

in case

you don't die tomorrow.

How you doing?

How's work

been treating you?

Damn mandatory drug tests

are driving my men crazy.

The only good news is

we had a meeting with the controller

about union business,

and guess what.

Remember the accident last year

and the investigation?

The FAA is going to rule

it was a manufacturing error.

I told them

it wasn't maintenance.

It's those god damned

greedy manufacturers out in Cincinnati.

That's great, Dad.

We'll be out of suspension.

We can get new routes to Pittsburgh

and Boston now.

We'll compete

with the big guys.

Well, to Bluestar.

As your broker,

I advise that you hold on

to that stock.

What stock?

Are you kidding?

You sure

about this thing?

What?

The FAA

announcement.

Sure I'm sure.

Look at me.

You've got that mischievous look

in your eye, Buddy.

You used to smile like that

when you were a kid sleeping.

It's true,

just like that.

Morning, Gordon.

There's a delivery

for Mr. Gekko.

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Stanley Weiser

Stanley Weiser is an American screenwriter. He was born in New York City. He is a graduate of the NYU Film School. His screen credits include Wall Street and W., both directed by Oliver Stone. He also wrote the 20th Century Fox film, Project X. He is credited for creating characters in the sequel to Wall Street: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. In addition, he served as script consultant on Oliver Stone's Nixon and Any Given Sunday. Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990. It was nominated for four Emmys and won the Directors Guild of America Award for best TV movie. Freedom Song, a semi-fictional account of the early SNCC movement in Mississippi, was co-written with Phil Alden Robinson, who also directed. They shared a Writers Guild of America Award and Humanitas nomination for the 2000 TNT film. Weiser also adapted the novel, Fatherland, by Robert Harris, for HBO. It was nominated for three Golden Globe awards and Miranda Richardson won for best supporting actress in a TV or cable movie. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series Witness to the Mob in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro. He also wrote Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, for which he received a Writers Guild of America nomination for best TV movie. As of 2012, he wrote a biopic on the life of Rod Serling, the writer and The Twilight Zone creator. Weiser began his career as a production assistant for Brian De Palma on Phantom of the Paradise, and as an assistant cameraman on the Martin Scorsese documentary, Street Scenes. He is married and lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center. more…

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