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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	comment	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a sequel to Wall Street, also directed by Oliver Stone, that was released on September 24, 2010. It stars Michael Douglas returning as Gordon Gekko, along with a new protagonist, Jake Moore, played by Shia Labeouf. The film also stars Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella, and a small reappearance of Charlie Sheen.Decades after the original film, Gekko has served his time and is trying to reconnect to his estranged daughter Winnie. But the years out of Wall Street have not made Gekko any less of a manipulative money-maker. As he prepares for the upcoming 2008 Financial Crisis, he grows a friendship with Jake, Winnie's struggling boyfriend. The two work together to reveal the fraud while Jake tries to find out what happened to his old mentor.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Churchill Schwartz is a very, very obvious version of Goldman Sachs, right down to the article Jake Moore writes about them, the excerpt of which we see is literally taken word-for-word from Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone now-classic article about Goldman Sachs with only the names changed. Bretton James is also pretty obviously heavily influenced by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, although going so far as to call him a copy is probably stretching it.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_19ebe383	comment	Josh Brolin. The trailers give off the impression that Gordon is once again the Big Bad, rather than the Anti-Villain he has become.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Julie Steinhardt is the most taciturn of the bankers.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Before Jake tries to get revenge against Bretton James for destroying Zabel's company, his friend Robby comments that "It's a dish you stick to cold, pal." Jake responds that "I'm about to serve it up hot, Robby." However, his initial efforts achieve only paltry success. Much later, though, he finally manages to get true revenge against Bretton — with the help of a website called Frozen Truth.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Is that a threat?" "Absolutely."
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_23a79ebf	comment	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Josh Brolin. The trailers give off the impression that Gordon is once again the Big Bad, rather than the Anti-Villain he has become. Susan Sarandon plays Jake's mother, with a subplot devoted to Jake bailing out her failing real estate business.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Happy Birthday, Louie!
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: When Louis Zabel is pleading with the other bankers to buy the toxic debt from him, even at a fraction of what it was worth only days before, they agree, but only for $3 a share vs their original market price of $38. Louis asks to raise the price by a dollar, so that his company doesn't "look like a bunch of pussies". Julius nods his approval, but Bretton firmly replies, "Three." The expression on Louis's face looks as if he'd just been punched. It likely contributes to his suicide shortly after.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Gorgon Gekko's plans.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Gordon Gekko, who else? Bretton James also is impressed at Jake with convincing the Chinese investors to agree to finance fusion research, but then goes and diverts the money to an underperforming investment just to avoid threatening his fossil fuels investments. When Jake learns about this, he insults Bretton, who takes it as Jake's letter of resignation and tells him to keep one of his motorcycles as a part of his severance package.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The brief establishing shot of the Catskills in autumn just before Jake goes up to ride motorcycles with James for the weekend therenote Although the roads used are actually in Harriman State Park, much closer to the city
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Bretton James, who gives even a guy called Gordon Gekko a run for his money.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: It's revealed that what happens to Louis Zabel's firm was revenge by Bretton James for when Louis refused to help with a deal gone sour eight years earlier. While Bretton was able to recover from that, his revenge was tanking Zabel's company altogether and creating a global financial panic in the process.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: While Gordon was more Faux Affably Evil in the first film, here he's a straight example of this trope and by the end of the film he's dropped the "Evil" part.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Gordon Gekko and Jake Moore team up against Bretton James, a thoroughly despicable stock gambler who has wronged them both.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The film kicks off with Gordon being released from prison in 2001, then skips forward seven years to the 2008 financial crisis.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_6b782004	comment	Advertising Campaigns: During the original airing of the pilot of $#!+ My Dad Says, special ads for Money Never Sleeps - which would open the next day - were headlined "$#! Gordon Gekko Says".*
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Louis Zabel (Jake's mentor) jumps in front of a subway 20 minutes into the movie when his company is about to go under.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Bretton James was apparently an associate of Gordon's back in the 80s, but unreconciled differences meant that they had gone their separate ways by the time the Bluestar Airlines purchase occurred. Gordon relays this info to Jake in an Info Dump, before explaining that James was (at least partially) responsible for why he ended up in prison for 13 years.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: Subverted by Gordon Gekko, who seems repulsed by the outright criminal behavior of modern Wall Street.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_930a6407	comment	Rewrite: The ending of the original film strongly suggested that Gordon was going to prison for many years for insider trading and securities fraud. In this film, however, not only was that original sentence just a slap on the wrist, but his eventual prison stint was caused by unrelated parties, with him tied up in legal proceedings for five years before getting sent to prison for eight.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: Gekko's sonnote played by Stone's own son in the original film has died of a drug overdose by the time of this film. His mother was apparently so distraught by this she eventually had to be committed to a mental hospital;note Perhaps an allusion to Sean Stone's own instability? it's implied she may have passed on as well.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_97522514	type	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_97522514	comment	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door: Gekko goes 360 degrees in his hero-or-villain status. The ending shows that he does redeem himself.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Francisco de Goya painting Saturn Devouring His Son foreshadows Gordon Gekko's betrayal of his daughter at the end of the film.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: The movie features not only famous person lookalikes, but also several people playing themselves, including Warren Buffet.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Gordon seems to draw the line at defrauding clients versus the insider trading and company liquidation he was guilty of in the first movie. Double Subverted as he defrauds his prospective son-in-law/student only to pay him back with interest at the end.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Bud, the protagonist of the first movie, appears in exactly one scene. Despite that, it's basically just a self-aggrandizing cameo for Charlie Sheen that runs very counter to his original character and the lessons he previously learned.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Gordon morphs into this.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_c32201f6	comment	Good Colors, Evil Colors: All of the characters wear suits in morally ambiguous shades of grey. The villain, Bretton James, wears a demonic red suit.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The subplot with the Cracker Jack ring references Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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