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Gordon Gekko: It's not always the most popular person who gets the job done.

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When Bud is talking to Carl's co-workers at the airplane hanger they are working on aircraft N455OT. The plane is painted in Bluestar colors. The last 2 letters, OT, signify the aircraft belongs to Avant Airlines. ["OT" on the N number does not signify anything. The N number is 4550T (455zeroTango). The FAA does not issue N numbers using the letter "O" as it can be confused with "0" zero (as is the letter "I" can be confused with the number one 1). Google N4550T and you can see it was a BAC 1-11 that was parted out in the early 90's.]
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The scene where Gordon is speaking to Bud on his cellular phone at the beach makes no sense. Gordon states that he is watching the sun rise and how beautiful everything is. The problem with that is in New York, the sun would rise over the Atlantic Ocean/eastern sky and the scene shows it coming up over the west not the east. [I was under the impression that his beach house was out on Long Island. On the north shore of the island the sun would be rising right where it was, over his right shoulder as he faced the water. So unless there was someplace in the movie that states the house is not on the north shore of Long Island, not necessarily a mistake.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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