1)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!
2)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.
3)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.
4)Bud:
How much is enough? 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.
5)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.
6)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.
7)Gekko:
Greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning
corporation called the U.S.A..
8)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.
9)Gekko:
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better
word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
10) Gekko:
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
Greed clarifies and cuts through and captures the essence of 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 Teldare Paper, but that other malfunctioning
corporation called the USA.
11)Carl
Fox: What you see, is a guy who never measured a man’s success
by the size of his wallet!
Bud
Fox:
No, what I see is a jeolous old machinist, who can’t stand the
fact that his son has become more successful than he has.
12)Marv:
Oh, this is very nice. This is very nice. So what’s it, “Mr.”
Cocksucker now?
13)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.
14)Gekko:
What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.
15)Gekko:
And if you need a friend, get a dog.
16)Gekko:
The most valuable commodity I know of is information.
17)Marv:
Common forget charts, will ya? We’re not fund managers here baby.
Churn ‘em and burn ‘em. I am offering you the Knicks and chicks.
God help you before you turn into poor Steeples over there.
Review:Oliver
Stone (Platoon, Born
on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers,
The Doors, JFK,
Talk Radio), fresh off the success of Platoon,
dove right into this movie which captured the excesses and greed of the 1980's.
From the opening scene till the final scene I was on the edge of my seat as the
naive and inexperienced Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) tries to climb up the corporate
ladder of riches. Sheen is perfectly cast, and his awkwardness only adds power
to the electrifying and charismatic performance of Michael Douglas. Douglas took
home the Oscar for Best Actor and I believe it's one of the best acting performances
ever. I am fond of the "mentor" theme that runs throughout the movie
between Bud and his father (Martin Sheen), and Bud and Ghekko. There is also a
moral tug-of-war that Sheen must deal with which I found captivating. Review by
Aaron Caldwell
