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When Oliver Stone made Wall Street, he was riding high from the commercial and vital success of Platoon (Special Edition) . His father, Lou Stone, had been a stockbroker on Wall Street in Novel York City and this film was a son’s intention of paying tribute to his father. Almost twenty years later, it has become one of the quintessential snapshots of the financial scene in the United States and epitomizes the essence of capitalism, greed and materialism that was so prevalent in the 1980s.
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Michael Douglas owns the role of Gekko and by extension dominates the movie with his larger than life character. He gets most of the film’s best dialogue and delivers it with such conviction. There is a scene between Bud and Gekko in a limousine where he tells the younger man how the financial world works, how it operates and lays it all out, pushing Bud hard to go into business with him. It is one of the strongest scenes in the movie because you really bear what Gekko is saying and how Bud could be seduced by his words.
The culmination of Douglas’ performance is his noteworthy lauded, often quoted, “Greed is worthy” speech that his character gives to a shareholders’ meeting of Teldar Paper, a company he is planning to assume over. He concludes by saying, “Greed is right; greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for savor, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you tag my words — will set not only Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.” This is one of the best delivered monologues ever set aside to film as Douglas goes from charming to downright threatening and encourage again, succinctly summing up the essence of ‘80 capitalism and greed.
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The unique DVD did not have many extras but the quality of what was included was advantageous. They have all been carried over to this novel release (minus the trailers) but do the original extras really merit a double dip?
There is an audio commentary by co-writer and director Oliver Stone. Stone talks about Michael Douglas’ early struggles with the broad amount of dialogue he had to mutter and how he dealt with it. The filmmaker is candid with his shortcomings and those of others (i.e. Daryl Hannah, Charlie Sheen, etc.) . As always, Stone delivers the goods, offering all kinds of interesting insights into the making of the film.
The second disc features a fresh introduction by Oliver Stone that is brief and really should have been set aside on the first disc.
Another modern extra is “Greed is Beneficial,” an hour-long retrospective documentary with Hal Hoolbrook, John C. McGinley, Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas amongst others returning to offer their impressions of the financial world depicted in the movie. This gigantic doc examines the appeal of Gekko and why he inspired people in the business world.
Also novel to this edition is over 20 minutes of deleted scenes with optional commentary by Stone. There is a nice tiny scene with Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller as one of Bud’s clients. Also included is an earlier scene where Bud and Darian (Hannah) meet in a bar but Stone sever it because the Hamptons scene at Gekko’s house was stronger. The filmmaker puts all of these scenes into context and why there were chop.
Finally, carried over from the modern edition is “Money Never Sleeps: The Making of Wall Street,” a agreeable, 47-minute making of documentary. There is very itsy-bitsy overlap with the “Greed is Satisfactory” documentary.
If you’re a fan of this film and already occupy the previous edition, the unique extras definitely warrant a double dip. They are quite immense in nature and shed more light on this advantageous film.
To spy this movie in Moscow in 1988 as a student was a liberating and exhilarating experience. Here is the capitalism close-up, warts and all. And we loved it. In three more years the Soviet communism will be dismantled, free market hurriedly introduced, and some of my friends and fellow students will travel to become very rich people themselves. I did not know then, that Gordon Gekko, a villain who incidentally was considerable admired by me, was a thinly veiled portrait of Ivan Boesky. Boesky, who incidentally was a son of Russian immigrants, became a center of the biggest insider trading scandal and government investigation in the 1980s, which let to the collapse of junk bond powerhouse firm Drexel Burnham. However, I knew that Gekko must be mighty more than a villain, otherwise how this horrid character could be so stunning? Of course, a mountainous section of it was a great acting by Michael Douglas. But watching this film now, 17 years later, gave me an opportunity to ponder more on the subject from a different perspective. I assume now that Gekko’s character is archetypal and has the same qualities as Bulgakov’s Woland from `Master and Margarita’. He is the Wall Street Mephistopheles, the Astronomical seducer, not objective some greedy upstart and `faux bonhomme’. But one of the qualities of Lucifer is that he `brings out the light’, he helps to illuminate things, partly because of his gain darkness. Untimely, in the movie it was his turbulent encounter with Gekko, which helped Bud Fox to accept his character and, in a procedure, redeem himself. So in some exclusive device, the movie is a Wall-Street-version of age-old anecdote of Faust.
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