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Alex Kvartalny @ flamedragon27.blogspot.com

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Annotation to the Film Wall Street by Oliver Stone

For you everything has it's price

You give nothing away for free.

If silence were truly golden

I guess no one could sleep

No one could sleep.

You have money at your fingertips

People at your beck and call

And you're fool enough

To think for a price

You can have the whole wide world

For all our sake's

And all our lives

We must hope the words

That come from your lips

We must hope those words are lies

For all our sake's

And all our lives

We must hope the dreams

Soulless visions that you have

Are never realized.

--- Tracy Chapman, So.

“Every battle is won before it is ever fought. Sun-tzu, the Art of War.”

--- Gordon Gekko

“It’s all about bucks, kid, the rest is conversation.”

“And if you need a friend, get a dog”.

“The point is, ladies and gentemen, 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 save not only Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.”

Gordon Gekko.

“They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money”

George Salive.

Gripping, enlightening and provoking, Wall Street by Oliver Stone arraigns America and its financial system like no other film does. Are you a young stockbroker, like Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen), desperate to get to the top? Then you might as well consider selling your friends, family, honesty, dignity – just about anything provided you live under capitalism of course! You might want to use a shortcut here or there – but don’t you worry: as long as you have money you have the freedom and can buy your way out of anything or into anything. You don’t have to be a loser any more. Just have a look at the extremely successful and wealthy but unscrupulous corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) and be like him so that others can gawp at you instead of him. Well, unless you want to shy away from the vertiginous success, which you surely deserve, act now and be ready to vindicate pilfering, buy love, worship underhandedness, be lavish with greed, make money, make money and make money. The movie’s most vivid lesson reminds us of a well-known saying – a happy man is not the one who has a lot, it is the one who has enough. Mr Gekko has a lot, but will he ever have enough?

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