Unknown to Bud, several of his trades attract the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission.īud pitches a new idea to Gekko: buy Bluestar Airlines and expand the company, with Bud as president, using savings achieved by union concessions and the overfunded pension. He continues to maximize inside information and use friends as straw buyers to provide more income for him and Gekko. Bud is promoted as a result of the large commission fees he is bringing in and is given an office with a view. Gekko buys shares in Anacott, which Wildman is forced to buy at a higher price to complete his takeover.īud becomes wealthy, enjoying Gekko's promised perks, including a penthouse on Manhattan's East Side and a girlfriend, interior decorator Darien. They deduce that Wildman is making a bid for Anacott Steel.
Gekko offers Bud another chance, and tells him to spy on British investor Sir Lawrence Wildman. Gekko gives Bud some capital to manage, but the other stocks Bud selects - by honest research - lose money. However, Gekko places an order for Bluestar stock and becomes one of Bud's clients. Intrigued, Gekko tells Bud he will think about it. Desperate, Bud provides him some inside information about Bluestar Airlines, which he has learned in a casual conversation with his father, Carl, leader of the company's maintenance workers' union. Bud pitches him stocks, but Gekko is unimpressed. Impressed at his boldness, Gekko grants Bud an interview. After calling Gekko's office 59 days in a row trying to land an appointment, Bud visits Gekko on his birthday with a box of Gekko's favorite, contraband Cuban cigars. He wants to work with his hero, Gordon Gekko, a legendary Wall Street player. In 1985, Bud Fox is a junior stockbroker at Jackson Steinem & Co. Stone and Douglas reunited for a sequel titled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which was released theatrically on September 24, 2010. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas' character declaring that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good." It has also proven influential in inspiring people to work on Wall Street, with Sheen, Douglas, and Stone commenting over the years how people still approach them and say that they became stockbrokers because of their respective characters in the film. The film was well received among major film critics. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not interested Stone, meanwhile, wanted Richard Gere, but Gere passed on the role. The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modelled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith.
The character of Gekko is said to be a composite of several people, including Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Milken, and Stone himself. Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker during the Great Depression. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. The most swearing in one film title was also previously held by gritty domestic British drama Nil By Mouth (1997), written and directed by Gary Oldman, which contained 428 uses of the expletive.Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen. Scorsese has broken his own record - Vegas gangster epic Casino (1995) was a record breaking swear-fest at the time of release, containing 422 uses of the f-bomb (including in the narration) - 2.4 times per minute. “Swear words were muted, which made almost every sentence in the movie hard to understand," complained one disgruntled viewer. The National reports that the heavy use of profanity, drug use and sexually explicit scenes has caused distribution problems in the Middle East - the cut version of the film showing in cinemas across the United Arab Emirates is forty five minutes shorter than the original uncut release. The film, starring Scorsese's regular go-to star Leonardo DiCaprio, is based on a memoir by Wall Street trader Jordan Belfort, whose decadent fast-living partying and gratuitous wealth created from dubious stockbroking is depicted in the biopic. The same f-word expletive is used 506 times – an average of 2.81 times per minute.
Martin Scorsese's latest big screen release The Wolf of Wall Street has set a new Guinness World Records record title for most swearing in one film.
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