Oliver Stone's movie Wall
Street is one of the few successful, realistic films about finance. Its
lesson wasn't hard to decipher. Stone set out to tell a morality tale about the
destructive values of American capitalism; immoral money manager Gordon Gekko mentors
the young stockbroker Bud Fox, whose hyper-ambition for money destroys his life
and those of the people around him. Greed is not good. That lesson, in real
life, went largely unheeded.
