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Gordon Gekko is a composite character in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, [2] both directed by Oliver Stone. [3] Gekko was portrayed in both films by actor Michael Douglas , who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the first film. [ 4 ]
Michael Douglas reprises his role as Gordon Gekko, which won him an Academy Award after the original film. Gekko has recently been released from prison and, after a failed attempt to warn business leaders of the imminent economic downturn, he decides to try to rebuild a relationship with his estranged daughter Winnie. [5]
Wall Street is a 1987 American crime drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen.The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.
The story follows young stockbroker Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen), who works under the morally dubious Wall Street trader Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas).
While Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko might be the flashiest and most charismatic of the silver. As Wall Street II makes its way into production, it seems like a good time to take a look back at ...
According to various sources, Fox is currently working on producing a sequel to Wall Street, Oliver Stone's 1987 opus about corporate greed. While Charlie Sheen will probably not be back for a ...
The character of Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street (1987) is based in part on Boesky, particularly his "greed is good" speech which resembled the commencement speech Boesky delivered in May 1986 at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley: "I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about ...
Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan-turned-convict who served as the partial inspiration for the 1987 Oliver Stone film "Wall Street," has died at the age of 87.