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| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 24 April 1987 - 4 July 1987 |
| Budget: | USD 15,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 8,514,908 USD (20 December 1987) |
| Plot: | Bud Fox is an ambitious stock trader who will do just about anything to get into the big leagues. He has been actively courting Gordon Gekko, one of the biggest stock speculators on Wall Street. Gekko manipulates the market using inside information and his motto best describes his approach: greed is good. Nothing will stop him from pursuing a good deal and he takes advantage of Bud's burning to desire to succeed. Soon, Bud finds himself getting information from any source and using to gain an advantage. It all comes to a head however when Gekko targets Blue Star airlines, the company where Bud's father has worked for 24 years, secretly planning to break it up and plunder the employees' retirement fund. |
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"FLY ME TO THE MOON" Words and Music by Bart Howard (ASCAP) Published by The Hampshire House Publishing Corp. (ASCAP) Performed by Frank Sinatra Courtesy of Reprise Records By Arrangement with Warner Special Products "AMERICA IS WAITING" Music by David Byrne , Brian Eno, Bill Laswell, Tim Wright and David Tiechier Published by Index Music, Inc./Blue Disque Music Co., Inc. (ASCAP)/E.G. Music, Ltd. Performed by David Byrne and Brian Eno Courtesy of Sire Records/E.G. Records By Arrangement with Warner Special Products From the David Byrne , Brian Eno album "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" "MEA CULPA" Music by David Byrne and Brian Eno Published by Index Music, Inc./Blue Disque Music Co., Inc. (ASCAP)/E.G. Music, Ltd. Performed by David Byrne and Brian Eno Courtesy of Sire Records/E.G. Records By Arrangement with Warner Special Products From the David Byrne , Brian Eno album "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" "DESAFINADO" Original Text by Newton Mendonica Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim Performed by Stan Getz Courtesy of PolyGram Special Products, A division of PolyGram Records, Inc. "QUIET NIGHTS OF QUIET STARTS (CORCOYADO)" Original Music and Lyrics by Antonio Carlos Jobim Performed by Stan Getz Courtesy of PolyGram Special Products, A division of PolyGram Records, Inc. "MIDNIGHT MOTION" Written by Kenny G Performed by Kenny G Courtesy of Arista Records, Inc. "BURNING GUITAR" Written and Performed by Dave Alvin and Steve Berlin Courtesy of Enigma Records "RIGOLETTO" Original Music and Text by Giuseppe Verdi Performed by Callas Gobra De Steffano and Orchestra E Coro Dee Teatro alla Scala De Monaco Conducted by Tollo Serafino Courtesy of Angel EMI Records "MOONLIGHT MAGIC" Original Music by Alan Moorhouse Courtesy of Associated Production Music (ASCAP) "THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (NAIVE MELODY)" Lyrics by David Byrne Music by David Byrne , Jerry Harrison , Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz Published by Index Music, Inc./Blue Disque Music Co., Inc. (ASCAP) Performed by The Talking Heads Courtesy of Sire Records By Arrangement with Warner Special Products From the Talking Heads album "Speaking in Tongues" "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU" Written by Patty S. Hill and Mildred J. Hill Published by Birch Tree Group, Ltd. |
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Continuity: Carl's glasses are back on after he takes them off. BOOM: Reflection visible in the window of Bud's apartment when Gekko is giving a speech to Carl. Continuity: Gekko's shoes during the meeting with the union representatives. Continuity: As Bud is leaving Gekko's office during their initial meeting, Bud's tie is perfectly straight and all the way up to his neck. When Bud reaches the other side of the door, his tie is crooked and half way down his chest. Continuity: The amount of water on Gekko's coat during the scene at the end in the park. Continuity: Bud is arrested on a federal offence, yet walks into the NY State Supreme Court at the end of the film, not the Federal Court, which is next door. Continuity: When Gekko drops Bud from the limo, the street is completely dry when just a couple of blocks before it was raining abundantly. Fact errors: Only two .45 Lugers were made, not six. FAIR: Davidoff Cuban cigars were available from 1970 to 1992. Not all Davidoff cigars were made in the Dominican Republic Continuity: When Gordon Gekko is walking away from Bud Fox in the dressing room, Bud Fox says, "I am not just another broker..." If you look at Gordon's shoes as he comes around the lockers he is wearing a suit with a pair of tennis shoes (full screen) Crew: When Lou Mannheim gives Bud the speech about money making you do things you don't want to do, the mic under Mannheim's tie is visible. Continuity: Wildman is shown typing on a computer keyboard. The camera pulls back to reveal a darkened, blank screen. Continuity: The painting behind Gekko changes with reaction shots while he is negotiating with Wildman upstairs at the beach house. Crew: In the poolside meeting between Bud, Gekko, and Gekko's lawyer, when Bud puts on his sunglasses and replies "piece of cake", the lighting is visible in his sunglasses. GEOG: When Gekko gives bud fox his ''wake up'' call from the beach, the sun is in the west. DATE: In the opening of the movie it is established that it is 1985. The character Marvin tell Bud Fox that Gecko sold NASA stock short after the Challenger Disaster. The Challenger vehicle was not destroyed until 1986. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, United States at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). The character of Marvin was speaking about an event that had not yet happened. FAIR: At the beginning of the movie, Bud Fox and Marvin ('John C. McGinley' (qv)) are talking about the Challenger Explosion, and how Gordon Gekko was shorting NASA stock right after the explosion. While NASA is a government agency and has no stock to short, the notion that Gordon Gekko would do such a thing is clearly intended by Marvin and a joke: hyperbole on the theme that Gekko always thinks always of a way to make a profit before anything else. CHAR: In his first meeting with Gekko, Bud refers to Bluester as having "eighty medium body jets." There's no such thing as a "medium" body aircraft: just narrow and wide. Bud may just be revealing his ignorance about aircraft, though he otherwise seems fairly well-informed about Bluestar and the airline business. Continuity: Throughout the entire film, several characters, including Gordon Gekko and Bud Fox, refer to the "Wall Street Chronicle," a fictional paper that does not exist in real life. On two occasions, however, Charlie Sheen (Bud Fox) refers to the actual "Wall Street Journal" by mistake: (1) (At 22:40) when Bud Fox is talking with Marvin (John McGinley), and (2) (At 55:36) when Bud Fox is talking with Roger (James Spader). Continuity: In the meeting at Bud's apartment, when his father shakes Gekko's lawyer's hand as the lawyer is about to leave, the editing on the handshake has one complete handshake (extend, shake, pull back) on Martin Sheen's line then just the lawyer pulling his hand back from the handshake on his line. The editing goof lawyer appears to be pulling back twice from a single handshake. Continuity: Lisa the high class hooker's hairstyle changes slightly for no apparent reason from Bud's front door to the limo interior. Crew: When Bud Fox first talks to Roger Barnes in his office, a lighting stand (a so-called C-Stand) is reflected in the computer monitor on the desk. |
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[In Bud's new office] Marv: Very nice. So what is it, *Mr.* Cocksucker now? Gordon Gekko: Lunch is for wimps. Bud Fox: I'm tapped out Marv. American Express' got a hit man lookin' for me. Gordon Gekko: When I get a hold of the son of a bitch who leaked this, I'm gonna tear his eyeballs out and I'm gonna suck his fucking skull. Carl Fox: Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others. Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you. Gordon Gekko: You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. Bud Fox: How much is enough? Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. Gordon Gekko: Mixed emotions, buddy. Like Larry Wildman going off a cliff in my new Maserati. Bud Fox: Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate. Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do. Darien Taylor: When you've had money and lost it, it can be much worse than never having had it at all! Bud Fox: That is BULLSHIT! [throws a whiskey bottle destructively; Darien starts to leave] Bud Fox: HEY! HEY! You step out that door, and I am *changing the locks*! Bud Fox: Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them. Gordon Gekko: [at the Teldar Paper stockholder's meeting] Well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me Mr. Cromwell as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and gentlemen we're not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than one percent. You own the company. That's right, you, the stockholder. And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes. Cromwell: This is an outrage! You're out of line Gekko! Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. 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 love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much. Gordon Gekko: The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. [Bud is just finding out about a meeting concerning Blue Star] Roger Barnes: Well, you're only the President of the company. What the hell do you know, anyway? [Blue Star has gone from 24 to 16 1/2 in a very short time] Gordon Gekko: Fox, where the hell are you? I am losing MILLIONS! You got me into this airline and you sure as hell better get me out or the only job you'll ever have on the Street is SWEEPING IT! You hear me, Fox? Bud Fox: You once told me, don't get emotional about stock. Don't! The bid is 16 1/2 and going down. As your broker, I advise you to take it. Gordon Gekko: Yeah. Well you TAKE IT! [shouts] Gordon Gekko: *Right in the ass you fucking scumbag cocksucker!* Bud Fox: It's two minutes to closing, Gordon. What do you want to do? Decide. Gordon Gekko: [calms down] Dump it. Marv: [Bud has been ignoring him] What the hell is the matter with you? Things are so bad out there even the lifers are complaining, but not you. No. You're pulling in big money. So what's the score huh... Bud Fox: Hey LOOK! I am SICK and TIRED of playing wet nurse to you all the time! Will you do your own homework, Marv? Marv: [leaves] What an asshole! Gordon Gekko: What's worth doing is worth doing for money. Gordon Gekko: I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox. Gordon Gekko: I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing. Gordon Gekko: I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought. Gordon Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog. Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is information. Gordon Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Gordon Gekko: I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one. Gordon Gekko: You see that building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay. Bud Fox: Why do you need to wreck this company? Gordon Gekko: Because it's WRECKABLE, all right? I took another look at it and I changed my mind! Gordon Gekko: Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered. Bud Fox: This is really a nice club, Mr. Gekko. Gordon Gekko: Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my kneecaps. Gordon Gekko: [meeting alone together in Central Park] Hiya, Buddy. Bud Fox: [nods as the both walk up to face one another] Gordon. Gordon Gekko: [with a smirk on his face] Sand bagged me on Bluestar huh? I guess you think you taught the teacher a lesson that the tail can wag the dog huh? Well let me clue you in, pal. The ice is melting right underneath your feet. [punches Bud and grabs him by the coattails] Gordon Gekko: Did you think you could've gotten this far this fast with anyone else, huh? That you'd be out there dicking someone like Darien? No. You'd still be cold calling widows and dentists tryin' to sell 'em 20 shares of some dog shit stock. I took you in. [hits him again] Gordon Gekko: A NOBODY! [and again] Gordon Gekko: I opened the doors for you! Showed you how the system works! The value of information! How to *get it*! Fulham oil! Brant resources! Geodynamics! And this is how you fucking pay me back you COCKROACH? [hits him once again and Bud falls to the ground] Gordon Gekko: I GAVE you Darien. I GAVE you your manhood. I gave you EVERYTHING! [calms down, then takes out his handkerchief and throws it to Bud to clean off the blood] Gordon Gekko: You could've been one of the great ones Buddy. I looked at you and saw myself. Why? Bud Fox: [getting up] I don't know. I guess I realized that I'm just Bud Fox. [firmly] As much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll *always* be Bud Fox. [tosses back the handkerchief and walks away] Carl Fox: I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it. Gordon Gekko: Well you take it, right in the ass you scumbag cocksucker. Gordon Gekko: This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence kid. Gordon Gekko: It's not always the most popular person who gets the job done. Bud Fox: Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel. Bud Fox: Hi, Marv. Marv: [sarcastically] Oh, hi. Say, why don't YOU get the hell out of MY office! Bud Fox: I know I've been a bit of a schmuck lately and I just want to apologize. Marv: You've been a *real* schmuck lately. So go thou and sin no more. Bud Fox: Let me make it up to you. [types on computer] Bluestar. Put *all* your clients in it. Marv: [pause] Ok, Buddy Buddy. We are back in business on Bluestar. Gordon Gekko: You stop sending me information, and you start getting me some. Carl Fox: Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow... Gordon Gekko: It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. Carl Fox: He's using you, kid. He's got your prick in his back pocket, but you're too blind to see it. Bud Fox: No. What I see is a jealous old machinist who can't stand the fact that his son has become more successful than he has! Carl Fox: What you see is a guy who never measured a man's success by the size of his WALLET! Bud Fox: That's because you never had the GUTS to go out into the world and stake your own claim! [Long Pause] Carl Fox: Boy, if that's the way you feel, I must have done a really lousy job as a father. Bud Fox: There's no nobility in poverty. Lou Mannheim: Kid, you're on a roll. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it never does. [after Bud lost $100,000 on a 'dog' stock] Gordon Gekko: I guess your Dad isn't on the Board of Directors of *that* company, is he? Gordon Gekko: If you're not inside, you're *outside*! Gordon Gekko: Jesus, if this guy owned a funeral parlor nobody would die! Bud Fox: About average yield... very attractive. Hooker: Mmm... [while unzipping Bud's pants] Bud Fox: Rising profits... strong balance sheet. Hooker: I'm hot on this stock. Bud Fox: It's ready to take off. I'd jump all over it if I were you. Bud Fox: Having sex with her was like reading the Wall St Journal. Marv: We're all just one trade away from humility. Marv: Sure went down the toilet with that ugly bitch. Carl Fox: "I came into Egypt a Pharoah who did not know." Gordon Gekko: I beg your pardon, is that a proverb? Carl Fox: No, a prophecy. The rich been doing it to the poor since the beginning of time. The only difference between the Pyramids and the Empire State Building is the Egyptians didn't allow unions. I know what this guy is all about, greed. He don't give a damn about Bluestar or the unions. He's in and out for the buck and he don't take prisoners. [Bud just got a promotion] Lynch: The minute I laid eyes on you, I knew you had what it took. [Bud just got arrested] Lynch: The minute I laid eyes on you, I knew you were no good. Gordon Gekko: You gonna tell me the difference between this guy and that guy is luck? [points at a bum and businessman] Bud Fox: What's the matter? Did somebody die? Marv: Yeah... Gordon Gekko: I want to know where he goes, what he sees, I want you to fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle. Bud Fox: You know what my dream is? It's to one day be on the other end of that phone. Gordon Gekko: Sir Larry Wildman. Like all Brits, he thinks he was born with a better pot to piss in. Gordon Gekko: [awed by the morning light] I've never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean, at a moment like this. Darien Taylor: I don't want him to ever know, you understand? Gordon Gekko: Mum's the word. [after a pause] You and I are the same, Darien. We are smart enough not to buy in to the oldest myth running; love. Diction created by people to keep them from jumping out of windows. [laughs] Darien Taylor: You know sometimes I miss you... Lou Mannheim: Bud... Bud I like you. Just remember something. Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. Bud Fox: I think I understand. Lou Mannheim: I don't know where you get your information, but I don't like it. Bud Fox: [after Gordon calls back and buys Bluestar] [Loudly] Yeah! Woooo! I just bagged the elephant! Realtor: Everybody tells you they hate the upper East Side. They wanna live on the West Side. But believe me, when it's resale time, the East Side moves all the time. I mean what do you got on the West Side? Sean and Madonna? Gordon Gekko: That's the one thing you have to remember about WASPs: they love animals and hate people. Investment Banker: Your boy really did his homework, Fox. And you'll have the shortest executive career since that Pope that got poisoned. |
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