Wall Street
CAST
Bud Fox: Charlie Sheen
Gordon Gekko: Michael Douglas
Darien Taylor: Daryl Hannah
Carl Fox: Martin Sheen
Supporting Roles: John McGinley
and James Spader
Greed is a very common characteristic in most
humans. Sure equality is good and all,
but to know that you have triumphed over the man walking beside you is
great. Greed is what drives Wall
Street’s Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who makes so much money that he
has hardly any time to enjoy it. He
gets most of his enjoyment from playing real-life monopoly: earning enough
money and property to bankrupt his competitors. 
But to him, there is no such thing as enough.
A
young stockbroker named Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) idolizes the millionaire Gekko,
and hopes he will one day become as successful. Fox comes from a working-class family of airline mechanics, and
his father Carl (Martin Sheen) is the head of one of the airline unions. Carl believes it is wrong for his son to
make money by spending other people’s money, but, since his son earns enough
money to put food on his table, Carl respects his son’s decision. Fox, 
desperate for money and desperate to become a Wall
Street “player” uses inside information from his father’s airline to impress
Gekko. Gekko does make some money off
this information and is suddenly working with and mentoring Fox.
Fox’s
first assignment is to spy on Gekko's competitors for stock information. Fox knows what he is doing is immoral and
illigal but is willing to
take the risk. Fox also notices a
beautiful woman named Darien (Daryl Hannah) at one of Gekko’s parties. She is a very nice woman, but like most
people in the upper social class, loves money above all, which gives Fox even
more motivation to earn as much money as possible.
Wall Street is
not a difficult movie to understand, even if you are 
ignorant of economics and Wall Street itself. The movie depicts money not as currency, but
as points. Every character in the movie
wants to have the most points and spends most of their time trying to earn
them.
Also,
the movie is not a documentary about Wall Street, but a story of an ambitious
person with dreams of “succeeding”, and doing whatever it takes to fulfill the
fantasy. Fox’s conflict is shown through
his two fathers’ beliefs of what succeeding truly is. His biological father believes money is not of great and
importance and believes success should not be determined,“...by the size of
your wallet.” Gekko, who treats Fox
similar to a father, believes, “Anything worth doing, is worth doing for
money.”
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