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ud Fox (CHARLIE SHEEN) is a Wall Street stockbroker with a burning desire to be a player.
He works all day selling shares as a broker for a firm, but is bent on finding a way to meet ruthless stockbroker guru Gordon Gekko (MICHAEL DOUGLAS).
By delivering a box of Gekko's favorite Cuban cigars on his birthday, he finally manages to meet with the financial legend, who admires the kid's persistence, dazzles him with $$$ and pulls the young buck into his ranks.
Now working for Gekko, Bud finds himself in the corrupt world of insider information and fickle women like Darien Taylor (DARYL HANNAH). Soon Bud is spiralling out of control, he is breaking the law, pushing away his family and even betraying his father's job with inside info about the airline he works for.
His father (MARTIN SHEEN) is always in the background acting as the voice of his concience. His father is a solid and honest blue-collar worker who rightly believes that Bud's life and method of making money is tantamount to selling his soul to the devil.
When Bud's activites are discovered by the authorities and it all comes tumbling down, as a last desperate act, the young buck calls on Gekko's nemesis Sir Larry Wildman (TERENCE STAMP) to break Gekko before he is thrown in jail.
Showing the extent of greed and the 'yuppie' stockbroker culture of the 1980's, Gekko's 'Greed is good, Greed is right, Greed works' speech made cinematic history and Oscar nominations soon followed.
The amusing thing, as noted in the documentary about the making of "American Psycho" is that not a lot has changed since the 80's.
In fact financial people are now earning a lot MORE money than in that era. It is movies like "Wall Street" that lead people to believe that the 80's was a decade of greed, because they are making social comment on what were new and outrageous practices of the financial institutions and brokers -whereas now, these practices and massive earnings are simply accepted as a fact of life.
Rather than greed having subsided, it has continued to reach new, interstellar heights, and characters like Gordon Gekko are no longer the shocking exception...
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As of 2007, this is the only movie to win both an Oscar (Best Actor: Michael Douglas) and a Razzie (Worst Supporting Actress: Daryl Hannah). 
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Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen would share the screen again later when the worked together in "The American President". -Thanks to Kai
A reference to Wall Street and Gordon Gekko is made by David Jason in the British comedy classic Only Fools and Horses. -Thanks to Michael Berry
The movie's line "Greed... is good." was voted as the number 70 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
Director, Oliver Stone makes a short cameo appearance on the phone during the montage of deals being made.
Bud's father in the movie is played by Martin Sheen. Charlie Sheen's old man! The two set the screen alight with their blistering performances. A testament to a great acting family and the once fiery career of the young Sheen.
Andrea Thompson, who played the hooker who picks up Bud Fox at his apartment, played a cop on ABC's NYPD Blue. She currently an anchor on CNN. -Thanks to Tom L
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The filmmakers had to build their own trading floor, as using a real one would have been impossible. Still, building required a location search because the set needed to be within view of Wall Street. "That way you could look out the window - that has impact on the visual part of a movie. That's one of the great reasons why people want to go to the real place to shoot. You're getting everything on that street as part of the package" says Ken Haber, Locations Manager.
Very much at the heart of Gekko's look are his braces. The pair of braces Gekko wears most often in the film are dark blue with a sky blue stripe, actually, the Old-Etonian colours (which Gekko would not be entitled to wear, as it's very unlikely he ever went to Eton). All of the braces worn by Gekko in the film were made by the world's oldest brace making company - Albert Thurston, of Leicester, England. -Thanks to Nick C
Oliver Stone's first choice for Gordon Gecko was Richard Gere. -Thanks to Mike
Sir Larry Wildman, the British takeover artist played by Terence Stamp, is widely believed to be modeled after Sir Gordon White of Hanson PLC. Hanson is a company that does nothing but acquisitions, liquidations and wholesale deconstruction of companies.
Hal Holbrook's fatherly character, Lou, is named after Oliver Stone's father (the film is dedicated to his dad at the end) who died a year before the film's release.
One of Oliver Stone's first choices to play Gekko was Warren Beatty.
Tom Cruise wanted to play the part of Bud Fox but Oliver Stone had already promised Charlie Sheen the role. He promised he would cast him in another one of his films (which he did in "Born on the 4th of July"). -Thanks to Stephanie
Charlie Sheen was actually asked by Oliver Stone whether he wanted Jack Lemmon or his father to play the role of Carl Fox. -Thanks to Jerry
Gordon's office was on lower Broadway and is the current home of Thompson Financial! -Thanks to cantbuymelove
Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) discusses the explosion of the Challenger which is impossible because it hadn't even happened yet, being that the film is supposed to take place in 1985. -Thanks to Stephanie
Gekko is round at Bud's flat for a meeting with the Blue Star team (the scene where he drops his plate through the table). At the beginning and end of the scene he's wearing white slip on leather shoes (very 80s!), but there's a shot in the middle where he appears wearing black lace up shoes. -Thanks to Geek Boy
If you look closely at the end of the exchange between Gekko & Fox at the NYC raquet club in the locker room, Gekko is definitely not ready to head out to his limo, as he is only wearing white socks, which can be seen if you look closely right before the "stop sending me information..." quote. -Thanks to David
You can see the camera crew in reflection of Gordon's office door when he is talking to Bud about breaking up the airline. -Thanks to Michael
When Bud gets his first visit with Gekko and is about to leave his office, notice he doesn't look too messy. But when he comes out and shuts the door, his tie is all jacked up and I think his hair's a little ruffled too. -Thanks to Steve N
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 Featured Movie Location: Gordon Gekko's Office
Wanna see the real life filming location used for Gordon Gekko's Office in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at An office building, located in New York, New York. [New! Show Google Map]
[Thanks to wayne]
The lunch meeting between Gordon Gekko and Bud Fox was definitely shot at the 21 CLUB. The dead giveaway is the cut scene which shows the exterior of the restaurant. The jockey statues and cast iron gates unmistakably mark 21's entrance. [Thanks to Alan]
Gordon Gekko's beach house was filmed on location at "Fowler's" Beach in Southampton, Long Island. I'm not sure about the house but it's probably one of the big houses on the right side of the entrance. Southampton has it's share of fabulous beach houses so it could also be one of them. [Thanks to Adam Payne]
Can you help? Do you know any of the New York, New York (or any other) filming locations used for Wall Street, particularly The offices, The bars etc? [Please send them in]
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