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Oliver Stone's Fly Me To The Moon

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Director Oliver Stone’s 1987 “Wall Street” takes the audience into life as an ambitious New Yorker shooting for the moon. He fantastically interprets the idea of “making it” in a city like New York. Appropriately setting the opening scene in the middle of the hustle of transit riders as Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” sets the tone of trying to escape just being a number among many. Very much like how New Yorkers have their own way of saying and explaining things, be prepared to learn the language of Wall Street, which unless you work in some kind of finance, you shouldn’t feel bad or too confused for not understanding. This hustling continues as the cameras take us into an office building to introduce us to the main character. Bud …show more content…

With a combination of screaming, yelling, and phones ringing, each trying to be louder than the other, the, also loud, background music merges with everything to definitely give the audience the New York City experience. Even the cameras were staged in away that either felt that one was up close and personal with the characters or just happened to be there and caught the gist of the conversation. This could also reflect the hustle of the city because when there is too many people, for example in a train car, things tend to get very close between passengers which seemed to be very much portrayed in Fox’s office life of Wall Street. A person like Fox, eager for success, is easily tempted to the side of greed by Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, the multiple billionaire big shot every broker wants to be. To prove to Gekko that he was ready for the “big times”, Fox shared information to Gekko about the airline his father worked for. Once the stock made money, Gekko used Fox specifically for insider training, even going the length as to have Fox chase Gekko’s competition for information. Getting back to the office, Fox gets a promotion, gets a new office, gets a new upper east side apartment, and gets the girl. Cause there is always a girl for the

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