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A Walk Along Oliver Stone’s 'Wall Street' (Where Gordon Gekko returns)
New York Times ^ | 09/14/2010 | Andrew Ross Sorkin

Posted on 09/14/2010 1:39:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

“You know, half the people in this place could be prosecuted.”

Oliver Stone, the film director, was sitting across from me over a late lunch in the Grill Room of the Four Seasons restaurant in Midtown Manhattan last week.

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If one man epitomizes the populist view of Wall Street and corporate America, it is Mr. Stone, whose new film, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” opens next week. It is the sequel to his hit movie “Wall Street” in 1987. The original tapped into the zeitgeist of the moment — “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” as Gordon Gekko said — by capturing the lust for money and power that led to the market’s crash.

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“Look, Wall Street’s gone crazy. It’s banking on steroids,” Mr. Stone said, getting a bit irritated. “Banks don’t mean what they did. When I was a kid, you had a savings account; you made 3 to 4 percent. Now you make zero, and Goldman Sachs is a bank holding company.”

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Mr. Stone had originally passed on remaking “Wall Street” in 2006 because he was worried it would send the wrong message. “It was just wealth, wealth, wealth. Guys like that, having birthday parties, it’s not my deal,” he said, nodding his head in the direction of Mr. Schwarzman’s table.

He decided to return to the topic after the financial crisis because he thought that the industry had finally lost some of its swagger and that a fictional account that explored the depths of that period would tap into the national mood. But ultimately, the world of high finance, he said, is just a backdrop for a film “about trust, love, greed, betrayal.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycotthollywood; communismkills; defundtheleft; gordongecko; hollywoodreds; meme; nakedcommunist; nyettimes; oliverstone; oliverstoned; pravdamedia; wallstreet

1 posted on 09/14/2010 1:39:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Oliver Stone is a communist and I could care less what words or works come from that piss poor excuse of a human being.


2 posted on 09/14/2010 1:45:38 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: SeekAndFind

“You know, half the people in this place could be prosecuted.”

What was Oliver doing at DNC headquarters?


3 posted on 09/14/2010 1:47:20 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. -- written by Robert Towne)
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To: SeekAndFind
The original tapped into the zeitgeist of the moment — “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” as Gordon Gekko said

BULLSTALIN. There was far more greed and corruption in the 1990s when we were told that impeaching Bill Clinton was not something to pursue because "it would be bad for the stock market".

4 posted on 09/14/2010 1:51:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: Revolting cat!

Wall Street 2 - Electric Buggerglue


5 posted on 09/14/2010 1:54:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: Darkwolf377
“You know, half the people in this place could be prosecuted.”

I thought he was visiting CAIR offices to discuss the Ground Zero mosque with the Imam.

6 posted on 09/14/2010 1:55:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: SeekAndFind; Slings and Arrows
But ultimately, the world of high finance, he said, is just a backdrop for a film “about trust, love, greed, betrayal.”

It's really just a story about a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.

7 posted on 09/14/2010 1:57:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Actually it’s about this :

“His new film gives a voice to the popular rage about what has happened on Wall Street. Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko out of prison, who, oddly enough, articulates the problems with the industry until, of course, he returns to his greedy ways. Shia LaBeouf plays a young trader-cum-banker who is in love with Gekko’s daughter”


8 posted on 09/14/2010 1:59:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: a fool in paradise
I thought he was visiting CAIR offices to discuss the Ground Zero mosque with the Imam.

Couldn't be, he said only "half" could be prosecuted.

9 posted on 09/14/2010 2:00:13 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. -- written by Robert Towne)
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To: SeekAndFind
“You know, half the people in this place could be prosecuted.”

Present company included.

10 posted on 09/14/2010 2:02:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why not make it about a gay congressman who is given a boytoy banking executive to run interference against investigations into banking irregularities and fraudulent accounting?

Why not make it about a failed security advisor who permits a national terrorist attack to occur and then becomes a highly paid ($30million) banking executive who is blind to banking irregularities?

Why not make it about a governor and a mayor and a community organizer trying to buy/sell the seat of a former community organizer turned senator turned president?

There is plenty of financial scandal to tackle in this film.

Hits the wrong message, I guess.

11 posted on 09/14/2010 2:06:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL!


12 posted on 09/14/2010 2:10:33 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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To: Mr. Jazzy

“...Stone is a communist...”

The Military Channel keeps re-running his PLATOON movie as if that is military history. The only flick more Leftwing than PLATOON is Stone’s SALVADOR. Viewing the later drove me to thoughts of murder....of Stone.


13 posted on 09/14/2010 2:16:55 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I know what you mean about “Platoon” on the Military Channel. Makes me sick. Almost as bad as that trash “Casualties Of War” with Michael “Jackoff” Fox and Sean “Chavez french kisser” Penn.


14 posted on 09/14/2010 2:36:24 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: Mr. Jazzy

.....is a communist.....

Yeah, but he sure takes the profit participation in his films when they are successful. Is that communism?


15 posted on 09/14/2010 2:45:15 PM PDT by mono
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To: SeekAndFind

Fresh off Stone’s last bomb, “South of the Border”, a new one starring Michael “Weekend at Bernies” Douglas is ready to stink up the box office.


16 posted on 09/14/2010 3:12:07 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (It's easy being a communist when you're rich.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s always amusing when some Lefty multi-millionaire spouts off about how everyone ELSE is money-crazy.

No doubt Stone drives his ‘98 Corolla to work every day and punches in like everyone else.


17 posted on 09/14/2010 5:03:55 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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