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Sunday 3 October 2010

Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps


Oliver Stone's 1987 film "Wall Street" had taken it's viewers into an exotic world. 23 years later, Oliver Stone returns with it's sequel. Apparently this is the first ever sequel Stone has directed. First movie was a huge hit as came at time when financial news was just a news for everybody and suddenly there was this movie on banking that looked like thriller. This time there's nothing exotic about it anymore. Its based on the nightly news on unemployment corporate downsizing.

But, it is that rare sequel that took its time-23 years and not only it advances its story but also has something new to say. Stone and his sawy writers Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff, have crafted a tale that takes advantage of viewers' newfound knowledge and cynicism. Stone has cast his movie well with Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin and Carey Mulligan to attract younger viewers, and Michael Douglas' return as Gekko can't help being a major lure.

The story settles quickly on young proprietary trader Jake Moore (LaBeouf), who just happens to be in love with Winnie Gekko (Mulligan), Gordon's estranged daughter. Despite Gekko's attempts to warn Wall Street of the economic downturn and stock market crash no one takes him seriously because of his early crimes. Then Gekko tries to rebuild his relationship with his daughter who always accused him for her brother's suicide. In the mean while, global economy is on the verge of disaster, Jake, a young Wall Street trader joins hands with Gekko on a two tier mission.

Can you win two Oscars playing the same role? An actor rarely gets the opportunity to revive a breakthrough role in a way that allows him to rethink the character and to reflect on where fatal flaws once lay. Douglas does this brilliantly. LaBeouf is top notch. He nicely balances his character's idealism and shrewdness. Mulligan and Brolin deliver strong supporting roles with attention-grabbing characters.

Stone has tried a different way of direction this time. His camera work can be either praised in a great manner or people might be turned off. Either ways, no one can ignore the class he has put in the movie. As stated earlier, camera work is glittering and glossy. Background score is scintillating.

To conclude, I would just say that go for it to experience Gordon Gekko after 23 years and of course the class of Stone in a movie on finance, thrill and banking and the brilliant camera-work.

18 comments:

  1. very nice
    i like it
    supportin !

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  2. can't wait to watch this movie! thanks for the post!

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  3. thanks for the info ima watch walls street.. showing the support btw a good movie is boiler room

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  4. thank you for following. im so want to watch this movie too!

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  5. this movie was really good! i encourage you to watch the first one too

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  6. I bet it will be a good sequel.

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  7. haha I want a pretzel now! and I am looking forward to this

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  8. It's relevant and that's what makes this movie liked by so many people. I haven't seen it myself but I plan to. Good review!

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  9. Probably the best movie involving finance I've seen this... year.

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  10. seen the first one the other day on tv...should be good.

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  11. I had no idea that this was a sequel. lol.

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  12. i heard he did his assingment to be a broekr? and made 630k in profit. fuuuuu

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