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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]
By Vincent Trivett We've all seen Michael Douglas deliver Gordon Gekko's classic "Greed is good" monologue in the 1987 film Wall Street. But how would you like to see one of the best hedge fund ...
"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
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.
Ivan Boesky, the infamous insider trader whose name became synonymous with financial greed and helped inspire the fictional character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film “Wall Street,” has died. He ...
It's a strange time for a movie about Wall Street. The market's down and public opinion of the masters of the universe is at an all-time low. But Entertainment Weekly reports that Michael Douglas ...
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 ...
Think of Gordon Gekko and the perspective he conveyed in his “greed is good” speech, while recognizing that this is coming from the President of the United States, who is going to take that ...