I wonder how many people want to work on Wall St cause they watched Wall Street or American Psycho
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on 7/10/12 at 1:00am
As i browse this forum and 85% of usernames are some form of 'gordon gekko' or 'bateman' that use the same 3 god damn avatars I really ask myself this question. Maybe getting an investment banking job would be as easy as getting a cashier job at the local walmart if these movies were never made cause no one would ever no know about it.
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Honestly this is probably not
Honestly this is probably not too far off. But can't we get a few more Boiler Room references or something please? I'm tired of looking at that picture of Gordon Gekko...
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If the money wasn't good I
If the money wasn't good I wouldn't give a fuck about how good the movies make it look.
Honestly this is probably not too far off. But can't we get a few more Boiler Room references or something please? I'm tired of looking at that picture of Gordon Gekko...
I loved that movie but it really had very little to do with the financial world. Margin Call was alright but a bit dull. American Psycho is the only Wall Street-esque film I would have enjoyed had I not been a wannabe banker.
Looking forward to this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/. I probably won't have time to see it because I'll be getting gangraped in the FO by then (wish me luck guys!).
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Wait, I thought people were
Wait, I thought people were deliberately trying to make themselves look like jerks with those avatars? NO??
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I think they should make a
I think they should make a movie strictly about i-banking. Gekko was in PE, Fox was a broker, and American Psycho wasn't all that much about banking and more about watching Jeopardy all day (Unless that is banking).
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Definitely true. Same as how
Definitely true. Same as how people never heard of Kazakhstan before Borat came along and apparently tourism skyrocketed there.
I didn't even know American
I didn't even know American Psycho was about banking when I first watched it. I actually thought they were doing mergers & acquisitions for a law firm.
Connor: American Psycho
American Psycho wasn't all that much about banking and more about watching Jeopardy all day (Unless that is banking).
His father practically owned the company, silly; he could do whatever he liked.
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Probably. The media does
Probably. The media does influence what we think but I think people are probably more attracted to the displays of wealth the media associates with ib rather than the Films.
I do know of some people who thought it was cool to be a doctor after watching scrubs, unfortunately medicine requires intelligence and not a move you can make over a weekend. Same with ib, people may be attracted to it but they cant make a career move overnight and most wont bother.
tl;dr If a entry level job like pizza delivery was glamourised that would attract alot of people because of lower bariers to entry.
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American Psycho wasn't all that much about banking and more about watching Jeopardy all day (Unless that is banking).
His father practically owned the company, silly; he could do whatever he liked.
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Can someone make a movie
Can someone make a movie about charities and volunteering with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen in it to shift the 85% of the WSO population for philanthropic cause please? This would make OP happy and allow getting 6 figure paying jobs as easy as a cashier at a local Walmart.
Movies are just fantasies and fails to correctly portray the hardwork and dedication that one puts in to accomplish such goals. Another example would be Rounders, where many people were fooled into thinking that playing poker professionally would be all blings and glory.
Well, thinking about this again, Mad Men do make me want to work in the creative industry. "shall we drink before the meeting? after the meeting? or both?"
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Connor: I think they should
I think they should make a movie strictly about i-banking.
Why dont they do it? Cause lets be honest, unless its some Asian deal with a huge bidding war and undercurrents of shady dealings and assassinations accompanied by hot women, its going to be boring as shit and mostly lawyers and senior bankers arguing over whether to include stuff like working capital adjustments in a merger agreement.
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I just want the job the guy
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"A man generally has two reasons for doing anything. One that sounds good, and the real one." - J.P. Morgan
The movie that really got me
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I personally thought the
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