Wall street plot

Wall-Street (1987)

Oliver Stone

Wall Street is an American drama from 1987, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which combines Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah. The story takes place in 1985, in the city of New York

We can see the story of Bud Fox. An ambitious young junior broker at Jackson Steinem & Co. He wants to become the best. He wants to get involved with his hero, corporate raider Gordon Gekko, a ruthless and legendary Wall Street player.

After work, Fox's meets his father Carl in a nearby Queens bar for drinks. Carl Fox is a blue collar maintenance foreman for a small troubled airline called Bluestar Airlines. In an occasional conversation, Carl tells Bud that the Federal Aviation Authority cleared Bluestar of responsibility for a major incident in which it was involved.

A few days later, Bud Fox went to Gordon Gekko on his birthday and gave a brief interview to him about the actions of some promising companies, but Gekko was not impressed. Realizing that Gekko can not do business with him, a desperate Fox provides him with the information on Bluestar that the Federal Aviation Authority has not yet made public. Gekko tells him he'll think about it. A felled Fox returns to his office where Gekko makes an order for Bluestar stock, becoming one of Fox's customers.

Over the next few weeks, Fox is doing more action with Gekko falling, but the corporate raider took to the young man and takes him under his wing. However, Gekko makes it clear that he only wants some advice on the stock market: he wants privileged information that must be confidential, obtained by all necessary means, even if this involves the use of unethical and illegal methods. Desperate to advance in life, Fox agrees.

One of his first missions is to spy the British raider Sir Lawrence Wildman and discern his next move. Following Wildman in New York, Fox discovers he will take control of a major steel company, Anacott, Pennsylvania, and informs Gekko who discloses the news to the press and then buys control shares.

This weekend, Gekko invites Fox to his home on the Hamptons in Long Island, where Fox looks at the family life of the corporate raider and meets his wife Kate, the mother of Gekko Rudy's son and his little daughter. Fox also ran with a beautiful blonde woman who presents herself as Darien. Above the drinks, Darien tells Fox that she works as an interior decorator in New York and she knows Gekko because he is a frequent customer of hers and worked on her apartment from home and town . Fox asks Darien for a date for later, and she accepts one. A little later, Wildman arrives without being invited and confronts Gekko about the takeover of the steel company. Wildman says he is not in the "asset strip" of the steel company, but to improve his infrastructure and do something. After exchanging personal insults, the two men agreed to an agreement where Gekko will sell it to Wildman for a substantial cost.

Over the next year Fox earns money and enjoys the benefits of Gekko, including buying a penthouse on Upper East Side of Manhattan and Darien becomes his live trophy. However, it is hinted that Darien is a former lover of Gekko. Always employed by Jackson Steinem, Fox is promoted because of the large commission charges he brings from Gekko's negotiation and receives a corner office with a view. He continues to maximize privileged information, going as far as disguising himself as a supervisor of the cleaning company and entering the lawyers' offices and businesses after hours in order to obtain the necessary data.

Fox believes Bluestar's airlines can be upgraded and made a commercial success. He persuades Gekko to buy Bluestar and expand it because of the savings from the union concessions. Union leaders, including Father de Fox, are invited to Fox's apartment to discuss the proposal. Only Carl Fox is hostile to the idea because he does not trust Gekko and believes that Gekko only wants to buy and then liquidate the airline but after a line with his son he agrees to put him at his man.

Things seem to be going well, but then Fox learns at a general meeting that Gekko actually crossed it and intends to sell all the assets of Bluestar leaving Carl and all of Bluestar's staff unemployed one once the stock reaches its price. Fox himself is obliged to make a fortune on such a move, but he is guilty of guilt since it has never been his intention to break Bluestar, especially since many of the staff are friends he has known for a long time and friends of his father. Just then, Fox learns that his father was admitted to the hospital by a heart attack. At the bedside of his father, Fox apologizes to his father for doubting him.

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