Title: Wall Street
Duration: 120 min.
Country: United States
Director: Oliver Stone
Script: Stanley Waiser, Oliver Stone
Year: 1987
Synopsis: Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a young and ambitious stockbroker who finished his university studies thanks to him and his father´s effort (Martin Sheen), who works as a mechanic and as a union boss. His greatest wish is to work with a man he admires, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who is an unscrupulous man who has made himself and obtained big amounts of money at the stock market in a short period of time. Thanks to his persistence, Bud manages to get into the private circle of the powerful Gekko and starts to collaborate with him in his business and investments. In order to get to the top, he is willing to do anything, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
"Banking and Finance" in the film
The film is a criticism of the lack of ethics.
Most of the plots and operations that appear in the movie are based on inside information; how they get it, how they use it, how they manipulate quotes up or down by spreading rumors, etc. It is curious to see how they are expanding the circle of rumor as the price reaches pre-set levels.
Another important part of the film is the valuation they make of the Blue Star airline. They carry a cable using the investment of value, valuing their assets at market price.
In the film they face 2 alternatives to monetize the purchase of the Blue Star; immediately break and sell its assets or refloat it and make it a viable company. At that time, Wall Street "sharks" broke several companies in this way to make their investment profitable, but this option is no longer used today.
Nowadays everyone who buys a company with problems seeks to revive it and turn it into a profitable Company.
Most of the plots and operations that appear in the movie are based on inside information; how they get it, how they use it, how they manipulate quotes up or down by spreading rumors, etc. It is curious to see how they are expanding the circle of rumor as the price reaches pre-set levels.
Another important part of the film is the valuation they make of the Blue Star airline. They carry a cable using the investment of value, valuing their assets at market price.
In the film they face 2 alternatives to monetize the purchase of the Blue Star; immediately break and sell its assets or refloat it and make it a viable company. At that time, Wall Street "sharks" broke several companies in this way to make their investment profitable, but this option is no longer used today.
Nowadays everyone who buys a company with problems seeks to revive it and turn it into a profitable Company.
Personal commentary
We could also appreciate the tough life that this kind of workers have, trying to ensure the profitability of the financial transactions carried out with their clients´ money, even having to cover possible losses with their own money when those transactions goes wrong.
The film shows a number of troubles that face the power and wealth against simplicity and honesty and the crash of the working-class, represented by Carl Fox, against a business titan like Gordon Gekko.
In my point of view this is a good financial film.
ReplyDeleteIt is a film about the drama about ambition and the power of money.The power of money moves ambitious people to perform fraudulent acts.
Therefore as we study in this university degree The values that a person has should not be sold neither for the highest amount of money.