Stone On Board for WS2

It's official.

Oliver Stone has signed on to helm Wall Street 2. Sounds like Shia LaBeouf will be playing a Bud Fox-like role in the new movie:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_displ…

Gecko as a hedge fund manager? Too good to be true.

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The first one portayed Wall Street as immoral - this one will paint Wall Street as evil.

If you thought there was a lot of bullshit in Wall Street 1 (Wealth isn't created?) and JFK (a 200 foot shot with a scoped rifle is impossible?!?!?),wait till you see what Oliver has in store now.

 

Not sure I like that LeBeouf kid being in the movie. No way in hell he is gonna live up to Bud Fox (but who could). Douglas will obviously be back as Gekko. I've got a buddy working out in Hollywood at an agency right now, hopefully he'll be able to give me some good preview stuff. Right now this is it...

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/04/wall-street.html

And how is Gekko going to be able to run a HF after being jailed for all the laws he broke?

I really hope this is more of an intense storyline than a huge shot at Wall Street, but I just know I'm going to end up get pissed off watching it because it will be loaded with absurd implications and scapegoating.

 
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i recall an interview with douglas a few years back where the plot line was that gekko had just gotten out of jail...but i think putz brings up a good point - what if gekko beat the case? it would make bud's downfall in WS1 even more dramatic, and set up WS2 really well.

with WS1, WTC and W (wow, Oliver Stone likes the letter 'W'), Oliver Stone has shown his penchant for covering contemporary issues before we even have a sliver of hindsight. WS2 could be a great way to show the wider populus how the subprime crisis happened - I can't see Gekko as a banker who originated this mess, but he'd be a great archetypical HF manager who shorted housing and financials, especially via CDS. He's the kinda guy who couldn't give a shit about foreclosures and recession.

 

I literally just completed a term paper for my existentialism class that included the quote, “Man looks into the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”

It was used to support a free-will "incentivism" proposition, that included the positive value of irrationality, against hard determinism.

I wonder if that was a first...

 

can't you just blow off existentialism class altogether and still get an A on the basis of 'does it [the class] really matter?'

 

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