At the very end, the FBI agents take a tape recorder off Bud after he has just met Gekko in a park and recorded their conversation. This is supposed to be the start of Gekko's downfall, yet Gekko says nothing incriminating at all in his conversation with Bud. The closest he gets is : "I opened doors for you. I showed you how the system works - the value of information. How you get it. Anacott Steel, Brant Resources, Transuniversal, Fulham Oil . I gave you everything." Legally meaningless, and it can all be explained away by a (highly paid) lawyer as innocuous and innocent. [Maybe just the recording wouldn't had been enough. But he's not saying anything indiscriminating either, and let's not forget some more important aspects as key witnesses of the case, especially Bud.]
Wall Street (1987) - 4 corrections
Directed by Oliver Stone, starring Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Michael Douglas
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At the very end, the FBI agents take a tape recorder off Bud after he has just met Gekko in a park and recorded their conversation. This is supposed to be the start of Gekko's downfall, yet Gekko says nothing incriminating at all in his conversation with Bud. The closest he gets is : "I opened doors for you. I showed you how the system works - the value of information. How you get it. Anacott Steel, Brant Resources, Transuniversal, Fulham Oil . I gave you everything." Legally meaningless, and it can all be explained away by a (highly paid) lawyer as innocuous and innocent. [Maybe just the recording wouldn't had been enough. But he's not saying anything indiscriminating either, and let's not forget some more important aspects as key witnesses of the case, especially Bud.] When Bud is sitting at the table in the start of the movie, one of his father's friends says "good bye Charlie". They should have said "good bye - Bud, or Carl". Charlie is the name of Charlie Sheen. ["Bud Fox" walks into the bar, and the first man he meets, is standing and his name is Charlie, and when he leaves, the other worker says "good-bye Charlie" to the character Charlie, not Charlie Sheen.] It is said that Gordon Gekko sold NASA stock short on the day the Space Shuttle Columbia blew up. NASA stock? What NASA stock? NASA is a government department, not a company. You could no more buy or sell shares in NASA than you could in the Department of Defense, Environment, Immigration or Social Security. [It is a joke meant to highlight Gordon's lack of concern as to how he makes money. The characters all know that you can't buy or sell NASA shares and that helps make the joke funnier. It is therefore not a mistake.] Sir Laurence Wildman "saves" the airline thanks to Bud. Why isn't he named in the insider trading scandal? It's half his fault. [Bud is arrested for all the other things he's been doing (stealing files using the cleaning company, etc), not anything specifically related to the airline takeover.]