Wall Street (1987)
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Wall Street (1987) Starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen Directed by Oliver Stone University of Michigan - Dearborn EM550: Business Law and Ethics Summer 2004 Shane Schulze Wall Street (1987) is based on the bull market of 1985 starring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, a Wall Street stockbroker, and Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, a ruthless stockbroker kingpin. The movie has the traditional plotline with a hungry kid impressed by an elder in the business he wants to be in on, who is then seduced by the elder, later betrayed by him, and then tries to turn the tables in the end to make things right. This movie is important in three aspects: how the relaxed government regulation law allowed manipulation of the market through illegal securities trading, the lack of ethics in business, and how morals in today's society are not ethical. The first discussion is the focus on the effects of insider trading on the...


