Wall Street Page #3

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
5,001 Views


He needs your signature.

Send him in.

Hello, Natalie.

Recognize the voice?

I'll give you a hint.

You're seriously

considering marrying me.

You're lovelier

than I pictured.

I have Mr. Gekko's

birthday present.

You can't come barging in,

and what makes you think

it's his birthday?

It's in the bible, see?

You better buy him a gift.

Please, Natalie,

let me give this to him.

Cuban cigars.

Davidoff, his favorite,

and very tough to get.

Please, Natalie.

Stay here.

I'll see what I can do.

Wait outside.

Yeah, I'll see you shortly.

I hope.

Five minutes.

Well, life all comes down

to a few moments.

This is one of them.

What the hell's going on?

I'm looking at

Are we part of it?

We'd better be,

or I'm going to eat your lunch

for you.

Sorry, Jeff.

I loved it at 40.

It's insulting at 50.

Their analysts don't know

preferred stock

from livestock.

When it heads south,

we raise the sperm count.

This is the kid who calls 59 days

in a row,

wants to be a player.

Should be a picture of you

in the dictionary under

"persistence."

I'm looking for

negative control,

no more than

enough to block

any merger plans

and find out

if the books are cooked.

If it looks good on paper,

we're in the kill zone.

Lunch? Lunch is for wimps.

Billy,

I'll talk at you.

I'm Bud Fox.

So you say.

Nice meeting you.

I hope

you're intelligent.

Where did you

get these?

An airport connection.

So, what's on

your mind, kemo sabe?

Why am I

listening to you?

I've got to monitor

my blood pressure,

so don't upset me.

No, no, sir.

Within 45 seconds,

the microprocessor

computes your systolic

and diastolic

pressure.

Got an LCD readout.

Cost effective,

less than one visit

to a doctor.

I want to let you know

that I've read about you

at NYU business.

I think you're

an incredible genius.

I've dreamed of doing business

with a man like you.

What firm you with, pal?

Jackson-Steinem.

They're going places,

good junk bond department.

You're financing

that Janson investment?

Yeah.

We're working on

some interesting stuff.

Cosmetic company,

by any chance?

Are you 12th man

on the deal team?

I can't tell you that,

Mr. Gekko.

Why are you here?

Chart break out

on Whitewood-Young.

from the book.

Couple of 5% holders.

It's a dog.

Very strong management.

It's a dog.

What else you got?

Mr. Stevenson

in San Francisco.

He respond

to the offer?

What?

He's in Chicago.

What is Cromwell doing

giving a lecture tour

when he's losing

He must give lectures

on losing money.

If he owned a funeral parlor,

no one would die.

This turkey's

totally brain dead!

Christmas is over,

and business is business.

Dilute the son of a b*tch!

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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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