Wall Street (4/5) Movie CLIP - Greed Is Good (1987) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
At the shareholder's meeting, Gekko (Michael Douglas) announces that "greed is good."

FILM DESCRIPTION:
"Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns to rape, murder and bury his sense of ethics. Only when Gekko's wheeling and dealing causes a near-tragedy on a personal level does Fox "reform"-though his means of destroying Gekko are every bit as underhanded as his previous activities on the trading floor. Director Stone, who cowrote Wall Street with Stanley Weiser, has claimed that the film was prompted by the callous treatment afforded his stockbroker father after 50 years in the business; this may be why the film's most compelling scenes are those between Bud Fox and his airline mechanic father (played by Charlie Sheen's real-life dad Martin). Ironically, Wall Street was released just before the October, 1987 stock market crash.

CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1987)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen
Director: Oliver Stone
Producers: Michael Flynn, A. Kitman Ho, Edward R. Pressman
Screenwriters: Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone

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[silentreactor]

Michael Douglas was phenomenal In this, Deserved that Oscar that year easily.

[GamerFromJump]

“You get it right, or you get eliminated”

Or you get a bailout.

[philmiller]

Ah, the 80s the decade of plenty. I can guarantee that every lawyer and stock broker watched and memorized that speech.

[jjmah]

“For lack of a better word”

Idk, but I find that small phrase really made the speech glow. Very well written

[Pajamalamalamalama]

the face Michael Douglas makes at 1:27 is perfect. like a kid getting back to his seat after killing a class presentation

[Mullet-ZubazPants]

At least he's honest. Our new feudal lords in Silicon Valley pretend they're humanitarian altruists, when they're really just Gordon Gekko's with a liberal facade

[RideAcrossTheRiver]

"I am not a destroyer of companies! I am a liberator of them!"

_destroys every company he absorbs_

[markgarcia]

“In this country, you gotta make the money first.
Then when you get the money, you get the power.
Then when you get the power, then you get the women” —also Oliver Stone

[patriousthefallenknight]

"my dad says greed is bad"
"your DAD wouldnt know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!"

[briansmith]

One of Douglas best performances along with his role in Falling Down.

[zackthebongripper]

A little greed is good and healthy. Too much greed is destructive to oneself and everyone around them. it's the same thing with anything: eat too much get fat, etc.

[brisvegas]

"Man’s desire knows no bounds. Man will never and can never be satisfied. Man’s existence is defined by his greed. Man is in essence a greedy being” - This is the view of the sixteenth century thinker Thomas Hobbes

[d.c.barker]

Fly me to the moon...let me play among the stars.

I always liked that song.

[placebo]

Been broke trying to be a good person. Let's try this greed thing...

[nathanslay]

This movie is so awesome!! The dialogue in this movie flows like poetry! And each scenes flows perfectly from scene to scene and has such great cautionary themes. Michael Douglass and Charlie Sheen killed it!!

[killkrackatravyon]

Michael Douglas was very charismatic in this movie. Sometimes actors just shine.

[SalemGhassanHanna]

Gekko hardly blinks during his speech. Helps really drive his point through

[mattbernabe]

Probably my top favorite Michael Douglas performance.
Along with
Falling Down
Behind The Candelabra
Wonder Boys
Basic Instinct
Romancing The Stone
Fatal Attraction
The War of the Roses

[NoOne-pyor]

The point is, ladies and gentleman, 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.

[natalieps]

This speech is so legendary greed is good it probably got him the academy award alone.