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Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone. The film tells the story of Bud Fox, a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko, a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. It has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas’ character declaring that “greed, for lack of a better word, is good”. The sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, was released theatrically on September 24, 2010. Gekko gives Bud some capital to manage, but the other stocks Bud selects – by honest research – lose money.
Gekko offers Bud another chance, and tells him to spy on British investor Sir Lawrence Wildman. Bud is promoted as a result of large commission fees he is bringing in and is given an office with a view. Unknown to Bud, several of his trades attract the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bud pitches a new idea to buy Bluestar Airlines and expand the company, with Bud as president, using savings achieved by union concessions and overfunded pension. Bud persuades the unions to pull their support from Gekko’s takeover of Bluestar, causing the price of the company’s stock to plummet.
Bud then secretly arranges for Wildman to buy the company, at a discount, on the condition that he saves it. On the news, Wildman learns that Bud has engineered the entire scheme, and is forced to sell the company at a huge loss. The following day, Bud returns to work at Jackson Steinem, only to be arrested for insider trading. Later, it is revealed that he was wearing a wire to record his encounter with Gekko for the authorities.
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Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have had a dream since they were fifteen years old: to become wealthy by starting their own dot com company in some aspect of computer technology interface. They are now in their late twenties and have come up with the idea they believe will make them rich, namely “parking tickets,” as Tom refers to it: the company will be the on-line revenue collection interface for municipal governments. GovWorks.com was founded in May 1999 with only an idea. The building of the business focuses on obtaining venture capital based solely on the idea, with the actual mechanics of the website appearing to be almost an afterthought, or at least one left primarily to hired help. Regardless of the idea’s strength in raising this capital, another initial issue they face is what they perceive to be non-commitment by a third partner, Kaleil’s friend Chieh Cheung. They do manage to go live with their product in early 2000, to what appears to be a promising and lucrative future. However, the business’s success is fraught with many obstacles, including competition that may have a better product or one that was introduced to the market earlier, the whims of the economy, particularly in the equity market, and the fact that the business has few assets other than intellectual capital. Furthermore, their personal focus is solely on the business, which strains Tom’s relationship with his young daughter Tia Herman and Kaleil’s relationship with his girlfriend Dora Glottman. Their relationship is also being tested because it has always been inequitable – Kaleil being the self-avowed alpha dog – and may be usurped by business concerns.
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