Bud Fox might be the protagonist of Wall Street, but the movie's real star is Gekko.
The only person who really needs a cellphone, they argued back in the 80s, was Gordon Gekko.
Gordon Gekko, Don Vito Corleone and Mr. (Henry) Potter are three of the most memorable characters in film.
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The kind of phone Gordon Gekko wielded in "Wall Street, " it weighed 2.5 pounds and was about a foot tall.
Twenty-five years ago, early adopters like Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris were lugging around phones the size of footballs.
So goes the wisdom of Gordon Gekko, ruthless investor, legendary financier--and the star of the best movie ever made about money.
Investors, take heart: one of the all-time Bad Boys of Wall Street, mean and greedy Gordon Gekko, has turned over a new leaf.
That movie includes a scene in which the young stockbrokers mouthed the words to Wall Street, especially Gordon Gekko's "greed is good" speech.
Film director Oliver Stone presumably has a commercial contender with his sequel to Wall Street, and the return of Gordon Gekko, slated for September.
The virtuous heads of a productive company became aware that the sleazy Gordon Gekko has insider information, and they act to foil his nefarious plans?
Forbes talked to Stone about how the first Wall Street movie changed the way people think about finance, understanding the recent meltdown and how Gekko still fits in.
In a public service announcement that takes on insider trading, the very crime for which the fictional Mr. Gekko did hard time, Mr. Douglas says greed is bad.
Ask someone whose knowledge of Wall Street is limited to Gordon Gekko what they think of Goldman Sachs and chances are their answer will be a negative one.
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Incidentally, they named Blue Star after the 1987 movie Wall Street, in which Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko buys Bluestar Airlines using inside information--and his informant is sent to jail.
He soon learns that illegal insider information is the secret to Gekko's success, and together they plot a corporate raid against a small airline, Bluestar--the company Fox's father works for.
Curiously, even though Gekko is the film's villain, the character seems to be remembered largely in a positive sense--as a business guru, a take-no-prisoners negotiator and an all-around master of the universe.
Besides being a fancy toy for a very rich man, the phone enabled Mr. Stone to visually emphasize Gekko's early-bird-gets-the-worm work ethic: "There he was, prowling the beach at dawn, " says Mr. Stone.
Activist investors, then called corporate raiders, have been part of the American business environment since the 1980s, when the fictional Gordon Gekko attacked corporate boards and executive vice-presidents in the name of public shareholders.
He never hid his brashness, teaching a course at Columbia University called "Corporate Raiding--The Art of War, " and was one of the inspirations for the fictional Gordon Gekko character of the Wall Street movies.
In quick succession, Mulligan booked the role of Winnie Gekko (the daughter of Michael Douglas' character, Gordon Gekko), and major parts in a slew of other high-profile films, starring opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren.
His profile rose with it, and he came to be seen, in some eyes, as more Woody Allen than Gordon Gekko--a genial, funny, regular guy whose self-deprecating style masked a sharp intensity and a knack for nasty infighting when necessary.
The endearing, geeky gekko from Geico.
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The Southeastern position, in effect, is that Michael Dell is acting out of simple economic self-interest and not out of his stated desire to hasten the transformation of the company without worrying about quarterly financial performance. (But, you are thinking, Gordon Gekko taught us that greed is good, right?) In short, Southeastern is saying that Michael Dell is seizing the day, buying back the company he founded on the cheap.
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