Oliver Stone works again with Michael Douglas who is again playing the role of Gordon Gekko, the Wall Street shark in the new Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps movie, who’s premiere on Friday at Cannes comes hand in hand with wild fluctuations on the stock market.
” You have heard of the crash on Thursday. Now, at Cannes. As if Rupert Murdoch planned it. You lose 1000 points only to win 300 on Monday” says LaBeouf at the conference, him playing the role of the new protege of Gordon Gekko. ” Even now I went through the most exiting 30 minutes on the stock market in history” he says. ” The story of our movie takes place in this environment, it’s a struggle in one of the biggest financial storms in history. The timing is sensational because everyone wants to hang the bankers, however, on the other hand, nothing is changing. The banks have the same awkward practices, and these crises will happen again. Not this year, not next year, but they surely will happen”
The sequel of Wall Street takes place in the middle of the financial crises in 2008. Released from prison in 2001 for financial illegalities and other crimes, Gekko finally managed to publish his memories, under the same motto from the first movie ” Is Greed Good? On the other hand, Jake Moore, played by Shia LaBeouf is an investment councilor at a firm led by his mentor ( Frank Langella ) which is in a fierce competition with a rival, Josh Brolin. Jake finds in Gekko a new mentor, which has tons of advices and tricks that can be of used to the young broker. Also, it appears that Gekko is the estranged father of Jake’s fiance ( Carey Mulligan ).
Stone says that on the first place there were the characters and an interesting story, the economy comes second. Still, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps takes the economical crises very serious, offering to the public not just a very good movie but opening perspectives about some serious economical problems.
“Oliver managed to use what happened and put it in a movie that is very accessible to the public” says Mulligan. ” I’m not good with finances, but I think I have learned something about it, now that I have appeared in this movie. The story is on my understand, which says a lot because the subject is very new to me”.
The director said regarding his vision on capitalism ” I don’t know how it works but I want more serious reforms. In 1987, when I did the first Wall Street movie, I thought that things can change, however the last 20 years proved me wrong. Now, the only ones who get rich are the executives of major corporations”.
Asked if Gordon Gekko is inspired by his father, who was a Wall Street broker, Oliver Stone said ” the style of my father was very difference than the style of Gordon Gekko,he wrote articles and was not good with computers, but most importantly he was an honest man who treated his clients well”.
Asked about the ambitions of his character, Josh Brolin said at the press conference that ” like all people, my character is also ambitious and the fact that nobody stops him – and because of a lack of rules in the world of finances – his motto is More. I have also invested in the stock market and it’s easy to lose your head here”.
When Michael Douglas was asked if it’s hard to get roles at 65 years old and if this is an disadvantage in Hollywood, thanked the journalist that he reminded his age ” It’s true that while you are getting older one gets less roles in Hollywood. On the other hand, there are more interesting roles in independent movies ” said Michael.
Wall Street Money Never Sleeps
