Thirty years after the release of the now-classic movie "Wall Street," Wall Street itself is totally different. Or it hasn't changed at all, depending on who you ask. To mark the anniversary Monday of the opening of Oliver Stone's 1987 film, which starred Michael Douglas in an Oscar-winning, career-defining role as corporate raider Gordon Gekko, The Associated Press spoke to a group of Wall Street professionals, writers and film experts about how the movie reflected the reality of the financial world, and how little or much that world has changed in the decades since the movie's release. "The culture is the same.
30 Years Later, Wall Street Remembers 'wall Street'
By The Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 2:15am
BING NEWS:
- Wall Street Has Abandoned Wall Street
ON WALL STREET—America’s biggest bank is calling it quits on the street where American finance was born.
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