Review of “Wall Street II：Money Never Sleeps”
Chao Wang
MGMT-5603-03: Ethics, Decision Making, Comm
Oklahoma Christian University
Submitted to: Prof. Don M. Hull
April 24, 2014
The "Wall Street"(1987) profoundly reveals the hidden rules of the financial realm. It won several awards of Oscar. So many people who work on Wall Street are gained a lot of enlightenment from this amazing movie. Now "Wall Street 2" comes back. The Director still Oliver Stone, the difference is this movie links to the financial crisis of 2008. Just as the dominoes falling. Some people gained, but more people down with drain, even the live.
In this movie, Gordon Gekko was finished his term of penalty. Jacob Moore is Gekko’s daughter’s husband. But Gekko’s daughter Winnie would not want to talk to her father anymore. Then Jacob makes a trade with Gekko. Gekko teach Jacob how to revenge for Jacob’s respected advisor and Jacob need create the chance for Gekko in order to fix the relationship with Winnie. It seems a happy ending of this movie. But movie always wants to give you a surprise. Gekko start to defraud on this couple for one hundred million dollar after getting their trust. In this movie, Jacob’s first opponent is Bretton James who has a great and grand reputation in Wall Street. Bretton use several unusual ways to let Jacob’s advisor suicide. Jacob’s Boss & Advisor’s investing institution was killed by Bretton. From this case, Bretton has committed very criminal moral hazard. But there’s a famous word in this movie “You give money to others, but don't know whether the person will be responsible for your money”. This work is very unethical. Bretton in order to reach his goal, he tried to set a goal. Then use many ways to make to goa...
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...le anxious, so the desire which hidden in the depths of their hearts will be aroused. At this moment, people would try to reach their goal by fair means or foul. They would think this is a smart way to get the respected by others and it’s the easy and fast way to get what they want. In some people's mind, money is simply a digital number. They always focus on the money and the profit and ignore the people who care about you. In the result those will look down upon you and you will disappoint them. Family love and human nature is no any unit can be measure which is priceless. Blindly pursuit of fame and wealth is not as good as their eyes on contemporary life, people need learn how to enjoy the several decades of the rest of our life, and cherish everyone who worth you to cherish next to you. Be thankful and grateful and make our world more beautiful and harmonious.
The movie Walk the Line, is about the life of Johnny Cash and how he became a famous country singer. He was raised on a farm and was very good at memorizing songs. His brother Jack had a goal of becoming a pastor. Jack was working at a saw mill when Johnny decides to go fishing while Jack finishes his work. Jack was seriously injured by the saw and later died of his wounds with Johnny, his mother Carrie and father Ray by his side. Conflicts between Johnny and his father became hard.
Gordon Gekko is a greedy and smart person. He had set up a trust fund account in Switzerland in 1980s for his daughter, Winnie when she was 14. There is around $100 million in the account. Gekko told Winnie that once he was get out of the jail, he would use that money to reassert himself but Winnie reneged when her brother, Rudy died. Winnie believe that the death of her brother is cause by his father, Gekko. Winnie is dating with Jacob Moore. Godon Gekko mentioned the money to Jacob and propose a solution to him to use the money for his fusion development project.
He further shows us that the people of today are richer than their grandparents but are not happier in their lives (from National Statistics of social pathology). Even with these facts, people in the United States still believe if they had more money all of their problems would be solved, but once they reach that next income bracket they are not satisfied and try to reach the next one. Myers et al tells us, "even if being rich and famous is rewarding, no one ever claimed material success alone makes us happy. Other conditions like - family- friends- free time - have been shown to increase happiness" (Csikszentmihaly 145). therefore we must find balance in our own lives, and not just focus on making money. Instead we need friends, family and even free time, as aforementioned doing an activity you enjoy such as listening to music or
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This is a plentiful and fascinating movie, wonderfully captured, that demands your attention, only thing I would change about it is the length of the movie, it is nearly four hours; the longest movie I’ve ever watched. I also figure out which war it was for a while. I really enjoyed the war scenes, the battles are commanding. I can tell that this film took years to make, a lot of characters and many scenes; also considering it to be an old film, the technology probably made it a longer process to create the film. It also does a great job reflecting the main character with great mystery.
These obsessions result in an individual who is unable to accomplish his or her dream because those people don’t use their time for bettering their skills or minds and more time improving their reputation. In the novel Melchizedek tells Santiago about a baker and tells him “In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important than their personal legend.”(Pg.23). Similarly, In Remember the Name by Fort Minor the rap group states that “He knows the code it’s not about the salary it’s all about reality, making some noise.” This has the same undertone of disregarding status and reputation. Status is infectious and when and individual stumbles upon another individual that is superior to them he or she become bitter and lose focus on other tasks and devote their time to restoring their image in their minds. A person reading these two quotes will be left with the realization of the fact that in the long run money and status are just presence distraction in many cases an individual’s personal legend is one that if followed leads to extreme wealth but the become preoccupied with what they can gain at that
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..., a person who earns $25,000 is happier than a person who makes $125,000 and an employee who makes $500,000 is only slightly happier than someone who makes $55,000. Lastly, there are more important things in life that and make you happy, for example, friends. They don’t come with a price tag, and if they do, you definitely need new friends. Money won’t make you happy since good times can’t be bought. You don’t need a fancy vacation to have a good time; it’s just a matter of who you spend it with. Over the years, humans have blown the value of money way out of proportion. People make it seem like if you’re not filthy rich, then you won’t live a good life but it’s not true. You can lack money and yet still live a perfect, happy life.