Greed is Good

The name Gekko. Is recognized is by many. Gordon Gekko was the character made famous by Michael Doughlas in the 1980s. Oliver Stone's Wall Street is one of the best film I have seen. Charlie Sheen plays Budd Foxx who gets pushed into a world of fast money, fast cars and fast girls. The price. LIES and trading insider information about Bluestarr Airlines so that Gekko can buy the company at a low price and then tear it to shreads making himself a cool $60 million. Quite a nice profit you may think. However Gekko has more friends than meets the eye and Buddy gets himself stuck when it comes to Darian (Daryl Hannah's character.) Hannah refused to ever watch the film saying it was one of her worst experiences of her life. Being the only female you can see that when working on an all male film can be quite of a challenge. However her performance was rather pathetic in this film - to this day I still think Splash! was her one and only triumph!
A very good drama about insider trading in Wall Street and the greed of one man against the honesty of another. I don't like Sheen as an actor anyway so Foxx for me was a slimey runt of a man however Doughlas stripped down the fame of acting to its real glory - the pure development of a character. I though Gekko was smart, savvy and sophisticated and that Doughlas did really deserve that Acadamy Award. He really gave Gekko his all, a fantastic masterpiece!!