Wall Street: money never sleeps

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Movie
German title Wall Street: money never sleeps
Original title Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 133 (136: Cannes Film Festival) minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Oliver Stone
script Allan Loeb
production Oliver Stone,
Edward R. Pressman ,
Michael Douglas ,
Eric Kopeloff,
Alessandro Camon,
Celia D. Costas
music Craig Armstrong
camera Rodrigo Prieto
cut David Brenner ,
Julie Monroe
occupation
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Wall Street: Money never sleeps (Original title: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ) is a film directed by Oliver Stone , who thus continued his film Wall Street from 1987. The film had its world premiere on May 14, 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival . It was released in cinemas in the United States on September 24, 2010 in Germany.

content

The film begins in 2001 with punter Gordon Gekko's release from prison after serving eight years in prison. This is followed by a fade into 2008, in the middle of the heyday of the stock market boom and the work of the young investment banker Jake Moore. The drug death of his son during Gekko's imprisonment shattered his relationship with his daughter Winnie, as she blames him for her brother's death. Gekko seems willing to improve his relationship with his daughter after his release, and to this end allies with Jake, her fiancé. Jake's primary focus on Wall Street is investing in renewable energy assets. After his friend and mentor Louis Zabel has been ruined by false rumors about his investment bank and thrown himself in front of the subway, Jake seeks revenge. Behind Winnie's back, a professional relationship develops between Gekko and Jake.

When Winnie agrees to invest the $ 100 million her father bequeathed to her in an innovative energy company, Gekko disappears with the money. From his new London office, he invested the capital in several companies during the economic crisis and increased it to over a billion dollars. After Jake confesses to pregnant Winnie that he was in closer contact with her father and that he has appropriated her money, she ends the relationship. Jake travels to London and makes Gekko an offer. He is supposed to pay Winnie the 100 million dollars back and in return he can participate in the life of his daughter and grandchild. Gekko refuses at first, but the ultrasound images shown by Jake lead to a rethink. At the end of the film he suddenly reappears with the words “Doesn't anyone here believe in comebacks?” And announces that he has invested the 100 million dollars in the company in question. Jake and Winnie kiss. This is followed by the last shots of the film with the baby's one-year birthday, in which everyone celebrates happily together.

background

  • According to his own statements, Oliver Stone didn't want to shoot a sequel to Wall Street at first , but when the second world financial crisis came in 2008/2009 , he decided to do so.
  • The model for the company Keller Zabel Investments was Bear Stearns , which, as in the film, was the only big bank to refuse the biggest bailout package before 2007 (for Long-Term Capital Management 1998) and was taken over by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2008 . The initial bid for this acquisition was $ 2 per share and the new CEO was Alan D. Schwartz.

additional

  • Bud Fox, who is portrayed by Charlie Sheen as in the first part , makes a brief appearance. After serving his sentence, he successfully built up the airline Blue Star as a manager. He still has a deep enmity with Gekko.
  • As in the first part, Oliver Stone has a cameo as an investor.
  • As in the first part, Sylvia Miles has a brief appearance as a real estate agent.
  • Graydon Carter, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair magazine , also made a cameo in a scene in the restaurant.
  • Major investor Warren Buffett , Chinese real estate entrepreneur Zhang Xin and TV star Joan Rivers also appear in cameo appearances.

Trivia

  • Oscar winner Javier Bardem was supposed to get a role as a film antagonist, but could not take part in the shooting due to lack of time.
  • For the film music, Oliver Stone no longer relied on the film music of Stewart Copeland as he did in 1987 , but rather on David Byrne and Brian Eno . Six of the twelve tracks on the soundtrack come from their joint album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008), two tracks are solo pieces by Byrne and one track, This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) , comes from Byrne's former group Talking Heads . The song was already heard in the 1987 film.
  • The Ducati that Jake wants to borrow “over the weekend” has a special paint job with the number 21 of three-time Superbike World Champion Troy Bayliss .
  • The mobile tune of Jake is of Morricone composed soundtrack of the cult Western Two Ugly (1966) in which Wallach also participated.

criticism

The cast of the film received several praise in the German-language criticism. Michael Douglas is in top form and fun. However, Carey Mulligan acts "sometimes very tearful". Cinema judged that the best Oliver Stone film since Nixon offered "exciting entertainment at a high level". Regarding the figure of Gordon Gekko, she said: “Gekko continues to be the personification of an economic system that is designed to convert money into more money and, in the absurd extreme, would even accept its own destruction. Stone opposes the one utterly unideological appeal to human reason, which he ultimately admits even to a monster like Gordon Gekko. "

Some of the criticism spoke of strong New York images, or of a visually imaginatively implemented restlessness of the stock market. Although Stone took over the plot structure from the first Wall Street film, the second film is not a mere copy of the original, it even has more pace, "rousing energy and sleek elegance," said some of the critics. Others found the story "pale" staged and never really exciting. The overly forgiving and sentimental ending was criticized because a bad ending would have been more appropriate. The sentimental “economic monster” struggles with pregnancy as a motive, “as is well known, the declaration of bankruptcy for any script that doesn't know what to do next.” The “mindless”, even “brain-dead” script has a woodcut-like plot. Stone once again proves to be a “great simplifier”, with the black and white painting and striking simplifications that are usual for him, and unnecessarily uses heavy symbolism, for example with the soap bubbles made by children.

For the film service , the drama was “best because it was worst” when it portrayed the decadent life of the rich. "In passages like this, the film keeps everything its predecessor promised." While Gekko captivates the audience as "charming and demonic", his young pupil is too good, tame and uninteresting and therefore the main weakness of the film. There was disappointment that the film focuses less on Gekko and the financial world than on family members and their personal conflicts. According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the film fails because of the balancing act between Gekko's financial shark character and the family feelings that the script forced on him. The film is only gripping in parts. The Tagesspiegel stated: “Family? Above all, it is a safe bank for Gekko. [...] Money for trust, against the right to one day be allowed to play with the grandchildren, kinship as shareholder value , family as a swap exchange where feelings are dealt with - that is the greater betrayal. ”The film also adheres to this view . After talking about the value of family time together, the credits show expensive brand name watches. Die Welt also described Stone's latest production as a failure , which only found clear words at the beginning, and soon no longer, "because now the laws of mainstream films begin to take hold, which are the laws of the market." and uncritical entertainment film. After all, the film portrays the hangover after the financial crisis of 2008 "in all its indecision and dilution, perhaps more successfully than we would like to admit." Since 2008, politicians have hardly made any headway in their task of preventing a new financial crisis.

In contrast to the first film, Gekko's new speech is not entirely convincing, his sayings are less sarcastic, they are pithy, but basically mean nothing. Contrary to the opinion expressed that the relevance to the current financial crisis would make the film explosive, many critics were disappointed with the treatment of the financial market issue. It would be lost, the analysis turned out to be “clunky and anachronistic”, Stone did not provide any in-depth insights, had an “excruciating tendency to teach” and hardly exercised any political criticism. He avoided “stepping on anyone's feet” and “joined the choir of moral preachers”. Tied between satire and moral sermon, he was fascinated by Wall Street and tried to overcompensate for that "with too much and above all too flat moralism".

Review mirror

positive

  • Cinema , No. 11/2010, pp. 46–52, by Heiko Rosner: Wall Street: Money never sleeps

Rather positive

  • epd film no. 10/2010, p. 38, by Anke Sterneborg: Wall Street: Money never sleeps
  • Der Tagesspiegel , October 17, 2010, by Christiane Peitz: On the value of goods

Rather negative

negative

Awards

Michael Douglas was nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his re-portrayal of Gordon Gekko .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ release document for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 350 K).
  3. ↑ Age rating for Wall Street: Money never sleeps . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ↑ The interview was conducted by Lars-Olav Beier and Philipp Oehmke: Political director Oliver Stone: "America is an empire that no longer works". In: Spiegel Online . October 15, 2010, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Anke Sterneborg: Wall Street: Money never sleeps . In: epd Film No. 10/2010, p. 38
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Heiko Rosner: Wall Street: Money never sleeps . In: Cinema No. 11/2010, pp. 46–52
  7. ↑ a b c d Christiane Peitz: On the commodity value of the good . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 17, 2010
  8. ↑ a b c Urs Bühler: The return of Gordon Gekko . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 21, 2010
  9. ↑ a b c d Rüdiger Suchsland: Wall Street: Money never sleeps . In: film-dienst , No. 21/2010, pp. 36–37
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Christian Buß: "Wall Street" continuation: Oh dad, don't be so horny. In: Spiegel Online . October 19, 2010, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b c d Hanns-Georg Rodek : Wall Street 2 degenerates into a family drama . In: Die Welt , October 19, 2010
  12. ↑ a b Pascal Blum: Is greed still good? . In: Tages-Anzeiger , October 21, 2010, supplement züritipp
  13. ↑ a b c d Michael Althen : Shark without teeth: Stones "Wall Street" . In: FAZ , October 21, 2010
  14. ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/wall-street-2-money-never-sleeps,3897447,ApplicationMovie.html
  15. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/kino/vom-warenwert-des-guten/1959772.html
  16. ↑ http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/film/ich_marke_nur__die_schrauer_erung_1.8081495.html
  17. ^ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Financial Crisis: "Wall Street 2" degenerates into a family drama. In: welt.de . October 19, 2010, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Michael Althen: Shark without teeth: Stones "Wall Street". In: FAZ.net . October 21, 2010, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  19. ↑ http://www.zueritipp.ch/story/home/ist-gier-immer-noch-gut-/