Talk:Gordon Gekko

Copyvio?

I don't see this as a copyvio myself, so have reverted for now. Please comment here on how this is a copyvio. Thanks. Guinness 13:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Removed quotes

I removed the section of "representative quotes" from the movie. I didn't think they fit the article and they would belong better on Wikiquote. - furrykef (Talk at me) 00:42, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I reverted the removal. I see lots of these types of quotes for movie and other fiction related pages. It is not at all unusual. -- JJay 00:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the removal. The quotes are useless out of context... --Rehcsif 15:25, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I've pared down the quotes, amongst some other shuffling-around. Many of them weren't really "representative" at all and a couple were badly misquoted. Geoff NoNick 14:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

First paragraph needs to be toned down

The first paragraph is absurdly biased regarding the author's obviously dim view towards the corporate world.

"Absurdly biased"? I really don't think so. Let it stand as is.

Not absudly biased. But it is still biased. "excellent representation...". This is Wikipedia, keep it neutral. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.152.235.13 (talk) 13:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

There was a good list of Gekko's quotes. It is erased. Why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.202.196.72 (talk) 15:12, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

This article

This article is absolute shit -- especially the first section. I'm removing the unnecessary spoilers, but this article is so hopelessly stupid and fan-boy-esque it should be completely deleted; only the section on cultural influence should be kept and merged into the main article on Wall Street. --217.224.145.179 (talk) 14:20, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

STFO & GTFO —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.85.199.45 (talk) 00:46, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Boesky?

Shouldn't Ivan F. Boesky be mentioned somewhere? The "Greed Is Good" speech is basically the same as his Berkley speech. Kalaong (talk) 04:50, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, the Ivan F. Boesky article mentioned his speech's influence on Gekko's "greed is good" segment, so I ported that over to this article. 24.47.5.231 (talk) 03:04, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

You'd think Carl Icahn would be here given that the core "takeover and gut an airline plot" is something he actually did with TWA. Ronald "Ronnie" Perelman did something similar with both Marvel and Revlon, gutting the businesses for himself. Boesky and Milken were both convicted of insider trading. Milton Friedman is really the source of Greed is Good with his famous 1970 NYT piece. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olenick (talk • contribs) 11:02, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Main character/antagonist?

The main character is the protagonist. The antagonist is the one against him. A protagonist can be an antihero or just plain villainous, but he's still the protagonist. So yeah, first sentence doesn't make sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.192.62 (talk) 03:18, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I personally think that Charlie Sheene's character in the Protagnist not Gordon Gekko.--76.66.180.54 (talk) 06:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

In popular culture

Trivia?   Racconish ^Tk 20:51, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Greed is Good

http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/greed-is-good-speech/ "Parts of this fictional speech are reported to have come from actual speeches that real-world Wall Streeters had given — namely by corporate raider Carl Icahn and financial wheeler-dealer Ivan Boesky. Ichan had railed against corporate management who owned little of their own companies, had too many high-level executives, and were otherwise inefficient. And Ivan Boesky is credited with inspiring the “greed is good” line, paraphrased from a May 18, 1986 commencement address he gave at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Business Administration. Boesky said then: “Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.” Boesky was later one of those convicted of insider-trading." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.197.23.38 (talk) 02:39, 12 September 2018 (UTC)