WALL STREET

Para todos aqueles que ficaram maravilhados pela personagem de Gordon Gekko no filme Wall Street, e que certamente ficarão maravilhados com a sequela, aqui fica o aviso:

Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps follows the 1987 original, which created one of the mantras of the decade when Gekko declared: "Greed is good."

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The actor said the influence of the original film could be seen on Wall Street today. "Oliver and I were pretty stunned after the first one how people perceived Gekko. He was an insider trader, a guy who destroyed companies and people.

"He was a very well-written villain, and people are attracted to villains, but we never anticipated that all these people in business school would be ranting and raving that this was the person they wanted to be.

"Twenty-three years later, I imagine many of those students are heading up our banks, because the greed is not stopped. The greed has become legal."

Director Oliver Stone said the film could not be more timely, being made in the midst of the global financial crisis.

"I was first approached to do a sequel in 2006 but I didn't want to celebrate that culture of wealth. There was no reason to go back. After the crash, all bets were off and I began looking at a script."

While Goldman Sachs and other US banks refused to help the film-makers with their research, Wall Street traders were thrilled to be asked.

in Telegraph.co.uk

São importantes estas palavras, para que todos percebam que o objectivo do filme é retratar um mundo nefasto e ganancioso e não um mundo ético e moral.

Vejo muitos a irem buscar inspiração, nomeadamente os pseudo-gestores liberais da pichota,  a estes filmes… parece é que foram buscar inspiração pelos maus motivos.

Depois de lerem o que os criadores disseram sobre Gekko talvez percebam que estão enganados e que não percepcionaram sequer a mensagem do filme.

Por isso antes vale repensarem-se intelectualmente antes de pegarem no dinheiro alheio e gerirem-no a seu belo prazer, ignorando que podem afectar a vida de muitas pessoas.

Greed is bad!