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Gordon Gekko is a composite character in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, [2] both directed by Oliver Stone. [3] Gekko was portrayed in both films by actor Michael Douglas, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the first film. [4]
Wall Street is a 1987 American crime drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen.The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.
Conversely, Douglas also played powerful characters with dominating personalities, including Gordon Gekko, in the Wall Street franchise, who was described as the "greedy yuppie personification of the Me generation," and says "greed is good" in the movie; in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, he played an idealistic soldier of ...
The line was memorably echoed by Michael Douglas in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Gordon Gekko, a high-flying trader, in Oliver Stone's 1987 film "Wall Street." ... that greed, for lack of a ...
Michael Douglas says he had his work cut out for him turning into Benjamin Franklin for his new Apple TV+ series. Talking with ET's Cassie DiLaura ahead of the release of his show, Franklin, the ...
Michael Douglas is starring as Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV+'s new series 'Franklin,' and discussed it and more in an interview with Men's Health. Michael Douglas Has a Firm ‘No Dickheads’ Policy
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." [q] Gordon Gekko: Michael Douglas: Wall Street: 1987 58 "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." [r] Michael Corleone: Al Pacino: The Godfather Part II: 1974 59 "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." Scarlett O'Hara: Vivien Leigh: Gone with the Wind: 1939 60
Contributors to the new version of the song include Robbie Williams, Sheeran, Guy Garvey, One Direction, Simon Le Bon, Boy George, Sting, Chris Martin, Seal and the late George Michael and Sinead ...