the law to make even more millions, but somehow the concept of "enough".
eludes him. Like all gamblers, he is perhaps not even really interested in.
money, but in the action. Money is just the way to keep score.
The millionaire is a predator, a corporate raider, a Wall Street shark. His name.
is Gordon Gekko. Played by Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone's.
"Wall Street," he sits behind the desk in his skyscraper office,.
lighting cigarettes, stabbing them out, checking stock prices on a bank of.
computers, shouting buy and sell orders into a speaker phone. In his personal.
life he has everything he could possibly want - wife, family, house, pool,.
limousine, priceless art objects - and they are all just additional entries on the.
scoreboard. He likes to win.
The kid is a broker for a second-tier Wall Street firm. He works the phones,.
Trying to get new clients, offering second-hand advice, buying and selling and.
dreaming. "Just once I'd like to be on that side," he says, fiercely looking at the.
telephone a client has just used to stick him with a $7,000 loss. Gekko is his.
hero. He wants to sell him stocks, get into his circle, be like he is. Every day for.
39 days, he calls Gekko's office for an appointment. On the 40th day, Gekko's.
birthday, he appears with a box of Havana cigars from Davidoff's in London,.
and Gekko grants him an audience.
Maybe Gekko sees something he recognizes. The kid, named Bud Fox.
(Charlie Sheen), comes from a working-class family. His father (Martin.
Sheen) is an aircraft mechanic and union leader. Gekko went to a cheap.
university himself. Desperate to impress Gekko, young Fox passes along some.
inside information he got from his father. Gekko makes some money on the.
deal and opens an account with Fox. He also asks him to obtain more insider.
information, and to spy on a competitor. Fox protests that he is being asked to.
do something illegal. Perhaps "protests" is too strong a word; he "observes.".
Gekko knows his man.
