Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
by Gary Barnidge on October 2nd, 2010
Oliver Stone is back directing the sequel to one of the hit movies from the late 80′s. This is the first time a Stone movie has been made into a sequel.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is about an up-an coming Wall Street trader who looks to his Fiances’ father, who is a former disgraced Wall Street tycoon for advice on finding out who is responsible for a crime committed against his mentor. The Wall Street Tycoon has other things in his mind with the new son-in-law to be. All this is happening during a financial crisis in Wall Street.
If you have not seen the original Wall Street then you should watch it before you see this movie. There are a few references from the original, but to truly understand the manipulative ways of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) you must see the original and see how things unfolded for him that helped make him how he is.
Shia LaBeouf plays Jake Moore the up-an coming trader and he delivers a powerful performance with his blend of grit and idealism. His character goes through many ups and downs in which LaBeouf captures the true feelings that the character is feeling with his facial expressions as well of his tone in his voice.
Michael Douglas who won an Oscar for his role as Gordon Gekko in the original film doesn’t deliver another Oscar performance but that doesn’t take away from his character, it was just a different way in which the character is portrayed that takes away from his performance. Josh Brolin (Bretton James) and Carey Mulligan (Winnie Gekko) deliver captivating characters that you root for and against at times.
The movie is shot in similar ways that other Oliver Stone movies are shot such as W., World Trade Center, Alexander, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, and Wall Street. In which he takes a certain aspect and delves deeper into that aspect and gives you and up close look into it. In W. he delves in George Bush, in Any Given Sunday he looks into behind the scenes of football, Alexander he looks in the history of how he became who he was. In Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps he looks into the aspects of Wall Street and the inner workings of how things work and how people act.
In Stone’s movies he tries to show you the inner workings of certain topics or people and makes an in-depth story about that situation or person. All in all the movie uses quite a few Wall Street terms that if you aren’t familiar with then it may make it tough to understand, and certain parts of the movie will be hard to follow because of the way they use the terms
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