I wonder how many people want to work on Wall St cause they watched Wall Street or American Psycho
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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I think about this a lot. I think it's actually a fact.
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...
If the money wasn't good I wouldn't give a fuck about how good the movies make it look.
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!).
This looks sick..great cast and Marty directing? Might be the first movie I'd see in theaters in years.
You know shit is going down when Leonardo DiCaprio is in the cast. Majority of the audience will be girls for sure...
Wait, I thought people were deliberately trying to make themselves look like jerks with those avatars? NO??
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).
His father practically owned the company, silly; he could do whatever he liked.
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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.
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 Psycho was about banking when I first watched it. I actually thought they were doing mergers & acquisitions for a law firm.
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.
This is the reason why I wanted to do investment management since the 6th grade
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815234739/http://library.thinkquest.org…
Get Rich or Die Tryin' inspired me to goto Wall St.
You and swagon are gonna get along just fine.
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?"
I didn't know anything about trading other then what a stock is till high school when I saw Pursuit of Happiness. Probably what kick started my interest in finance.
I just want the job the guy in barbarians at the gates has.
wall street is an exaggerration of what life is like as a hf manager. It is hollywood making finance look dynamic. It had a small influence on my decision though.
The movie that really got me interested in finance was definitely The Lion King. When I was little and I saw that part where Scar dropped Mufasa down into the canyon and killed him, then that part where Simba was up on the big rock all like "I'm King of the World" and shit I was like holy shit Wall Street
hahaha. +1
No one mentions Trading Places?
"So ya'll a couple of bookies, huh?"
This quote means sooo much more to me now...
I think Margin Call is a lot better.
It really is a fantastic movie.
I personally thought the first Wall Street was an awful movie when I saw it. Haven't even seen the second because I so disliked the first.
Seen American Psycho. I looked at it more as a psychology movie than a finance one.
Finance isn't really a field that the media influences people to enter. Medicine, on the other hand, is plagued by people who think the day-to-day activities are like those in Scrubs, or Grey's Anatomy, or ER, or General Hospital, etc.
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