I'm sorry. I can't do this.
Winnie!
Why did you make me do that, Jake?
You don't understand. This is none of your business.
It is my business. Stop for a second.
Look at the real man in there.
He's hurting. He's desperate to get you back in his life.
He's not who you think he is, Jake!
People change. It was a long time ago. Winnie.
He'll hurt us.
Don't go back in there.
JAKE: Are we really going to lead with this Babaco Solar?
It's a hustle, Bretton. I passed on it twice within the last two years.
They spin a sexy story
with these super-thin cadmium telluride semiconductors,
but the truth is, the technology is not proprietary...
We've been over this, Bretton. You are unbelievable, Moore.
Babaco is a cow. It's dead in the water.
The Chinese aren't stupid. They're not going to go for it.
Yeah, a cash cow maybe.
They've been saying fusion is five years away for the last 40 years.
It is. Laser fusion is the future.
Can you prove that, boy genius?
Can you prove evolution, girl genius?
That seems to work, though, right?
Look, knock it off. Both of you.
These guys are parking 1 5 billion across the board
in energy sectors
and I want them here, okay?
Carol's taking the lead on this.
Our recommend is Babaco. That's final.
Go ahead. I'll take you to dinner some other time.
Oh, eat me, Moore.
CAROL: Babaco is at the forefront of developing thin film technology
to incorporate solar cells into pliable plastic sheets.
We believe that within the next few years we can approach the 20% level
making it a perfect match for the explosion of growth and energy needs,
which, as you know, is growing at 40%.
Thin film technology is the breakthrough here.
And in 201 0,
thin film is going to surpass crystalline silicon.
And that's about it.
Go ahead.
So, with the world energy demand
growing 40% in the next 20 years,
we at Church believe, Mr. Xu,
that Babaco Solar is a cutting-edge no-brainer.
Good for a 20% return in the next two years
with a 30 to 40% upside in the next five years.
Thank you, Miss Carol.
Solar will make an important part of our portfolio.
But truthfully, we have seen similar technology from another firm.
As you know, China's demand
will more than double before my daughter turns 21.
So we are looking for the next 1 00 years.
Where even my grandson can spend money.
CHUNG: Do you have anything else to present to us today?
We've come a long way.
Listen, Wang,
now, we got a great new line on this shale oil technology.
Let's just dig a lot deeper for a price that we think is a good one.
We'll have a complete workup for you by the end of the month.
All right, Bretton. That sounds promising.
JAKE: What about fusion?
We happen to be working with a company right now.
It's got all the hardware in place.
Started by the Department of Energy.
They share R&D facilities with the University of California.
It's got a market cap right now of about a billion.
No earnings.
Fusion has been around a long time.
(SPEAKING MANDARIN)
"Good things takw time."
JAKE: The simple of it is,
it's using the intense energy of some 200 laser beams
focused on a single target the size of a few grains of rice
filled with hydrogen fuel.
So the idea being that when that target combusts
it produces more energy than it took in.
All the tests they've done indicate
that they can use this ignition process
to turn simple seawater into energy.
It's called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
using the reaction between hot water on the surface
and cold water beneath to power the lasers.
So what you wind up with is unlimited clean energy.
How do you contain the explosion?
That's a secret I can't really share with you right now.
Not to be secretive, but I could probably get you in there for a peek.
Maybe next week, on your way back to Beijing from DC?
(CHINESE BUSINESSMEN MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY)
Mr. Wang, I got you something.
This is American baijiu.
(SPEAKING MANDARIN)
"Johnnie Walker Blue Label."
Miss Chung, this is for you. Oh, thank you.
I used to go with Zabel to China.
Their culture's as much about manners as it is about business.
They're on the hook, Jake. That's all I care about.
Good.
I'll send him some bamboo flowers
symbolizing continued growth and prosperity.
You don't always listen so good, Jake, but you got fight in you.
I like that.
I think you might just have something on James.
My friend in Switzerland, he confirmed
that this Locust Fund, it exists and it's big.
A billion dollars. Mmm-hmm?
It just might be our friend Bretton
was trading through his own account,
outside of Churchill Schwartz.
Can we get that on the record?
That's the hard part, isn't it?
So what are we going to do about my daughter, Jake?
I told you, I'm sorry about the other night.
Gordon, I can't control her, you know?
Yeah.
You know, they say parents are the bones
on which children sharpen their teeth.
Find another way for me to get with her.
You know, there's got to be...
That dinner that's coming up, all the Street guys are going?
The Alzheimer's thing at the Met.
Yeah. I'm taking her.
I wish I had 1 0K for a seat.
A writer's got to sell a lot of books for that.
And we both know how Winnie would react to the fact
that you've been bonding with your future father-in-law.
Is that a threat?
Absolutely.
Huh.
Well, consider it done.
I just got to put you at another table.
It's got to look like an accident.
I like trading with you, Jake.
See you around campus.
Hey.
Get her a ring, for Christ's sake!
How are you, Bill?
Julie, how nice to see you.
Well, it's a pleasure to see you, William.
So nice to see you.
Have you spoken to J.P. about the conservancy?
Hi, nice to meet you. Hi.
Congratulations. Looks like you won this one.
Hi. It's not over yet.
Have you met Jake? Good to see you. How's your husband?
Very well.
ROBBY: I gotta tell you, Mr. Gekko,
seeing you speak was inspirational on so many levels.
Because, I'll tell you, I'm on the outside.
I'm looking at all my buddies making all this money
and I'm thinking, ""Fellas,
""there's no there, there."" You know?
But listen, I'm at your table.
We can talk about this all night.
That's great, Robby. I'll see you later then, all right?
BUD: Hey, Gordon.
Looking good.
My God.
Bud Fox, huh? I haven't seen you in years.
This is Erin and Christina.
Hi. Hello. Hi.
What was that airline called? Blue Star, that's right.
That must be keeping you pretty busy now, huh?
Excuse me.
Well, after a little time away, I actually turned it into
one of the largest private jet brokerages in the world and sold it.
Made millions.
That's great, pal. That's really great. So what's up next?
You're looking at it. Golf,
winters in St. Barts, philanthropy.
Ah! And how about you, Gordon?
Does Blue Horseshoe still love Anacott Steel?
(LAUGHING) You know it.
Well, I'll see you around sometime, Gordon.
Stay out of trouble.
(WALTZ MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WINNIE: And the website's called Frozen Truth.
BRETTON: Frozen Truth? WINNIE: Yeah.
That's catchy. I like that.
What we really need is some game-changing news.
And now you can come out of nowhere with one big story.
Since ""Mission Accomplished"" broke the Senator's affair,
they've gotten 200,000 hits a day.
Is it expensive to run?
Not really. It's a shoestring budget.
Maybe Jake can find ways to raise you some money
flip it to the public?
(LAUGHS) We don't really want to go public.
It would affect our credibility.
We want to stay non-profit.
Non-profit? What is that? I don't know what that is.
I've heard the term before, ""non-profit.""
That's very funny.
You know what it is? Isn't that when you came out of school
and you had to do something for the government,
Iike it was mandatory?
WINNIE: Very funny.
It was called the draft.
JAKE: It was called the draft. It's called the draft.
GORDON: So one day, Brett, Churchill Schwartz
is going to buy every table at this jackal's ball.
They're going to call it ""a religious revival.""
Winn, you don't have to leave on my behalf.
I'm only going to be here a couple of seconds.
No. Stay. I'm just going to get some air.
(GUESTS APPLAUDING)
If somebody took this place out tonight,
there'd be nobody left to rule the world.
But, Brett, congratulations. I know how hard you worked for all of this.
I go by ""Bretton"" these days.
It's a beneficiary of a few bull markets. That's all it takes.
So easy, even a caveman can do it, right?
That's right.
You make modesty a virtue, Bretton.
The truth is, nobody needs inside information anymore to get rich.
All you have to do is stay out of jail.
MAN: Glad to be here, Bretton. Herb.
Actually, jail was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Oh, yeah?
Got me to think.
It centers a man.
I probably should thank whoever put me in there.
BRETTON: You know, I saw you on television the other night.
You are quite the bear.
You be careful, you know.
Your daughter's financial health is now in our hands.
So it is, so it is. Yeah, it is.
But your firm knows sub-primes are crap.
The way you keep buying Bernie's insurance swaps lately,
I mean, I gotta worry about my grandchildren's college education.
We like insurance.
What's not to like?
Easy selling crack to kids in a school playground.
Credit default swap is a good idea.
It's the execution that isn't.
Well, you know what they say.
Bulls make money, bears make money,
and the pigs, they get slaughtered.
I thought this was a charity event, Gordon.
Why don't you go find some?
Tell you what. I'll make you a deal, Bretton.
You stop telling lies about me,
I'll stop telling the truth about you.
That's sad.
Isn't it?
WOMAN: It's pathetic.
That he can't just take his ball and go home.
He has to piss on the whole game.
(LAUGHING)
I'm going to go find Winnie.
Oh, look, by the way,
I talked to Wang today.
I think the Chinese are close. Very close.
In any case, I want to talk to you about the future,
about how we're going to bring this over the top.
Sure. Okay?
Tomorrow? Possibly tomorrow.
Okay. Okay. All right.
GORDON: Hi.
He's a good kid.
He came from nothing.
Hustler, like me.
You think he's the one for you, Winn?
Yep.
Well, just make sure he's worthy of you
because, whether you like it or not, you're still a Gekko.
And whether you like it or not
that name doesn't mean anything anymore.
Why do you say something like that?
We had an agreement.
You remember? Last time you came down to see me?
We were going to take a little trip.
When I got out, you remember that? To Switzerland?
Yeah.
That was before Rudy.
Some of the things that came out after you went away,
things you were recorded saying, the affairs?
That wasn't you. That wasn't my father. It was some sociopath.
It was nine years ago. So?
When are you going to stop?
You got no idea what hell I went through in there.
Hell, for you? It was hell for you?
Do you know what you did to Rudy?
To all of us? You drove Mom mad.
Winnie,
he was my only son.
I tried everything. I put him in the 1 2-step deal.
I never told you, I borrowed money from hardcore guys.
Tens of thousands of dollars, which I didn't have.
I gave it to the best therapist I could find.
I even tried to pay off one scumbag dealer
not to sell any more to my boy!
But if you'd been there, Dad...
If you hadn't been in prison,
it would've been different.
Winnie, you got no idea
how much I beat myself up,
how many mistakes I made as a father.
Rudy...
He was a victim, you know. Like, he had cancer.
You cannot blame me.
And you gotta stop blaming yourself.
You're all I got left, honey.
Nothing else
matters.
I cannot make it right again, but I can make things better.
I'm your dad.
And whatever you say till the day that I die,
you're my gal.
You're the only one.
You're my baby.
Please.
Winnie, just try to forgive me.
Dad.
JAKE: It's done, Doc.
Look, you're an older guy, so I don't want you to have a heart attack.
But Bretton James just said we're gonna get a $1 00 million!
DR. MASTERS: Are you serious, my boy?.
Yes!
Bretton says the Chinese are close!
But look, you get some sleep, all right? You deserve it.
Thank you, Jacob.
I'll talk to you soon.
FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR 1 : There is carnage on Wall Street.
The shares of the major financial stocks plummeting.
It's triggering a major sell-off in the markets.
The damage, widespread.
FEMALE N EWS ANCHOR 2: The NASDAQ's plunging.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is plunging,
and oil is plunging.
Literally a 1 80 points just added to the decline.
You can hear the hollering on the floor.
We're down 260, literally in a split second.
Right now, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
is now 500 points on the decline.
MARIA: The headline of the new housing report is grim
that this is shaping up to be the worst
real estate market in a generation.
MALE N EWS ANCHOR 1 : We are now at the highest point there, 724.
That was the biggest loss we've seen today.
We're now in historic territory.
FEMALE N EWS ANCHOR 3: Investors are getting their heads handed to them
as another US banking institution nears collapse.
The President's Working Group is going into emergency meetings
with the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Federal Reserve Board.
(WH ISPERS IN DISTINCTLY)
The President's Chief of Staff is calling back in an hour.
He's with the President.
And he's going to want to know what I think we should do.
BRETTON: This isn't Keller Zabel, Bill.
This is too big to fail.
BILL: This is just an insane situation.
This is now.
There's about 70-plus trillion out there in credit default swaps
held by roughly 1 7 banks.
And we do not know where the bottom is.
How much are you guys thinking?
At least five.
I think six.
Bill, I frankly think Harry and Charlie are low.
I think we're talking seven, eight.
BILL: Hundred billion?
(SIGHS)
MAN: Selling this to Congress is the problem.
They're going to want to know where the money's going.
They'll jawbone this to death.
Scare them. MAN: How?
Tell them the truth.
The government's got to restore confidence.
If we don't stop the bleeding, in three days,
half the banks in this room are out of business.
And in five days, we're all gone.
You men realize what you've done here?
You are asking for the biggest bailout
in the history of this country.
You're talking nationalization, Bretton.
Socialism.
I have fought it all my life.
And if we don't get it, Bill,
there won't be any history.
Music stops.
Ball's over.
Julie?
1 929.
It'll get worse now, because it'll go faster.
Money markets will dry up around the world by the end of the week.
ATMs will stop spitting bills.
Federal Deposit Insurance will collapse.
Banks will close.
Mobs, panic.
It's going to be the end of the world, Bill.
(WHISTLES DRAMATICALLY)
See?
Huh!
All right, boys.
You'll hear from us tonight.
MALE NEWS ANCHOR: What is going to happen here?.
Does government have to get involved?.
Are we potentially at a point where we might actually lose
the financial system as we know it?.
If the government doesn 't get involved,
there is a risk of a global meltdown
of the global financial system.
This is a financial crisis,
and anyone who doesn 't admit that is just kidding themselves.
We've seen something like this. PU N DIT 1 : Polly, I disagree.
You've gotta get the government to say no in a situation like this.
True capitalism is about disaster and correction.
It's a natural cycle.
Without it, you create all kinds
of artificial anomalies in the market.
But if we don 't fix this now,
you're going to have...
BU FFETT: This is something this country hasn 't experienced before.
It's an economic Pearl Harbor.
We got to figure out some way to put the fire out.
And that means government...
Your father predicted this.
When I was little,
I'd hear my dad in the kitchen late at night.
His case was on appeal.
I'd go and sit with him. We'd eat ice cream.
I never knew him as a peaceful person.
It always scared me.
This is scary.
What's going to happen?
It'll be the end.
Well, that's unacceptable.
Why?
Because I'm pregnant, Jake.
(BOTH LAUGH)
You're pregnant? Yeah.
(MY BIG NURSE PLAYING)
When the lake's on fire
That's fantastic. (LAUGHS)
With all the world's desires
Compact, relaxed
Intact, give thanks
I'm counting all the possibilities
MALE N EWS ANCHOR 1 : And we are talking on the S&P 500
a loss of almost eight percent in one day,
surpassing September 1 7th, 2001.
That's the day markets opened after the attacks of 9/1 1.
MALE N EWS ANCHOR 2: ...Iast night on Wall Street
and swept through Japan, China, India and Europe
after one of the worst days on global stock markets in modern times.
They said your office.
It's too depressing today. This is my other office.
This might be dangerous. Think you can keep up?
World's crashing anyway. We'll see, right?
That's not bad, Jake.
Though I think they might have given you the faster bike.
I'm sure that's what it was.
You know,
I've always believed that a man should have,
at one time or another in his life,
both a mentor and a protege.
Who's yours?
The man who brought me into Churchill Schwartz.
Bill Clark at Treasury.
He's been a good friend to us during this crisis.
You got the makings of a leader, Jake.
I just want you to know, there's no hard feelings on this.
No one's going to lose.
With Clark in, I think we're in good shape.
You got a great future.
I don't understand.
Didn't you read this morning's capital breakdown?
No, I came right up to the roof. Why? What happened?
Look, the Chinese money, it's going to Babaco Solar.
What? We took another look
and we just don't think United Fusion
is ever gonna achieve what they claim.
Babaco needs this money to build these three fabrications...
You might as well just burn the money, Bretton.
You told me, I told Dr. Masters. He's expecting it.
The decision's been made.
Unless you want it to die.
Of course.
Seawater is in a lot more supply than crude. Right, Bretton?
You an idealist or a capitalist, Jacob?
I'm a realist.
You're a real piece of work, Bretton.
You're giving the money to Babaco because it's a hustle.
It's all inside. That's why your oil companies are safe, right?
The mentor-protege relationship
is not emotional over anything.
I thought you might be a good addition to the Churchill Schwartz team.
Am I mistaken? Let me tell you something, Bretton.
You are not my mentor. Lou Zabel was.
And whether you admit it or not,
your raid destroyed Zabel and forced him to suicide.
So you may talk about moral hazard. You are the moral hazard.
You are the worst kind of toxic debt this system's polluted with.
Is this a threat?
Absolutely.
(EXCLAIMS)
This is so disappointing.
I really saw so much in you, Jacob.
You should look in the mirror first. See yourself.
It might scare you, Bretton.
Consider the motorcycle part of your severance.
Fuck you, Bretton!
(GRUNTS)
GORDON: Here you are. MAN: Thanks a lot.
WOMAN: Hi. For Elise.
GORDON: ""For Elise.""
And can I ask you a question, Mr. Gekko?
Certainly, Elise.
What exactly is ""moral hazard""?
He screwed me.
Excuse me?
Shocker.
He saw that fusion was actually possible, so he killed it.
Well, that's a little far-fetched.
But then, these days, anything is possible.
Well, I quit, Gordon.
That's really going to help. I'll see you outside in 1 5 minutes.
Moral hazard, that's when somebody
takes your money and is not responsible for it.
This guy James, he must walk between raindrops.
He's a monkey dancing on a razorblade.
Not only did he start the rumors at Zabel to get your bank for peanuts,
the guy was trading for his own account in this Locust Fund.
He was? He was.
And he was betting against the market that he was making.
But the kicker is, so was his firm.
Churchill Schwartz was shorting sub-primes?
Yeah, for the last two years they've been hedging.
Not just sub-primes. Primes, indexes, the whole thing.
But they knew this home loan fantasy
was going to collapse the market.
And when they did, they got the Feds
to bail out their bad insurance swaps, a 1 00 cents on the dollar.
I mean, talk about an evil empire. This puts me to shame.
And I'm small-time compared to these crooks.
The system is insolvent if no one knows what to do next
except repeat the insanity till the next bubble blows.
That'll be the one. The big one.
The tipping point, just like the tulip.
We could still go after James on this. Just bring it all out.
Easy, Trigger.
Media is not going to get in the way of Churchill or the government.
They want their profits just like the rest of us.
It's unethical, but it's not illegal.
When everyone's running for the lifeboats, who's going to care?
Maybe some little leftist website?
Your daughter will run it. It'll get some play.
Look, Bretton is not an enemy a kid like you wants to have for life.
Just get out of this racket.
Settle down with Winnie. Live a happy life somewhere.
What?
Well, you know, she's got enough money.
What do you mean? You're smart.
You'll come up with another way to slice bread.
What money?
My money.
Stop playing it dumb, will you, Jake? I know you know.
Know what?
Are you telling me that you're not the only one
in this relationship keeping a secret?
(LAUGHING)
Hold on a second. What money, Gordon?
Switzerland.
How much?
It's close to $1 00 million by now.
What do you say we split a cab?
(MUSIC BLARING ON RADIO)
I set it up as a Swiss account in the '80s before all the trouble.
Hey, chief.
Look, I'll pay you extra. Just slow down.
Can you... Can you...
When she was 1 8, I told her she would come into it all
when she turned 25.
And she agreed to stake me when I got out.
Then Rudy died, and she reneged.
She never visited me again.
She told me she had a small trust
from you and her mom, but she didn't care anything about it.
She was going to give it to charity when she was 25.
Well, it's easy for her to say. She never earned it.
And now you want it for your fusion delusion.
But it's a trust. I mean, she couldn't break into it
before she was 25 anyway.
Are you as dumb as you sound? Anything can be revoked.
They don't got trusts in Switzerland. It's an account, that's all.
I know the bank well. They'll work with me.
But you still need her signature, of course.
When it comes to money, sport, your eyes suddenly shine, just like mine.
(BRAKES SCREECHING)
(HORN BLARING)
Great! Saved another life, huh?
Asshole!
Are you crazy? You want to die? Huh?
(SPEAKING HINDI)
How do we do this?
She goes with you to Switzerland,
she signs the account over to your control
then you give me the money and I'll get it to the States for you.
You mean launder it?
Look, pal, you want the IRS on Winnie?
Because you damn well know she is complicit and seriously liable.
All right? You want the money?
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(WOMAN LAUGHING)
Hi. How are you? Hi.
Can I talk to you for a second?
Yeah. I'll be back in a sec.
Why didn't you tell me about the $1 00 million?
How did you find... How did you find out in the first place?
Did you talk to my father?
I found out because Churchill Schwartz's international trading desk
handles some of the money, and your name came up,
along with Gordon Gekko.
I never considered it mine. I was 1 4. I was a minor when he set it up.
Yeah, but you didn't do anything with the money
when you turned into a major, did you?
I was going to give it to charity. Really?
What were you gonna do, launder the money yourself, Winnie?
What was your plan?
I didn't think about it.
You didn't think about it? It was my father's money.
You know how he got it. No, you're wrong. It's your money.
It's $1 00 million of your money.
Do you know what that means?
That's five years in jail. You're gonna get busted with him for tax fraud.
This is serious, Winnie.
You could do something good with this money.
This is more than just charity, Winn.
You might want to wipe some of the drool off your face, Jake.
Winnie, if it wasn't important,
I'd totally understand, but it is.
You know that fusion just might work.
I know it sounds like Star Wars, love,
but if it weren't for crazy people
who thought these crazy things
then where would we be in this world? Nowhere.
Huh?
Winnie, Dr. Masters is a genius. He's a pioneer.
They might just solve this thing. It could change the world.
Yeah, okay. Is this about changing the world or making money?
Because you come into my office, pitching to me.
You sound like a Wall Street guy.
Hold on for a second! I am a Wall Street guy.
I am and I'm good at this.
And I believe in this. And you know that I do.
What do you wanna do, just report the news for the rest of your life
or do you want to make the news? This is your opportunity.
It's your chance to shine.
To be Captain America.
(VOCALIZING)
This is the most charitable you could ever be in your life!
(VOCALIZING) (LAUGHING)
You honestly believe in this?
Let's say I could...
Let's say I could get the money now, hypothetically, right?
Not that you care about the money.
But let's say I could take out a loan against it,
minimize your risk as much as possible.
Would you do this for me, Winn?
Would you do this for me?
MALE BANKER: Very well, Miss Gekko.
We will have your father co-sign
and we will see to it that the funds are transferred.
Thank you. Danke schon, Miss Gekko.
Mr. Moore. Yes?
Mr. Gekko asked that you call him in New York
as soon as this meeting is over.
Thank you.
So I'll take care of the rest of this. You go back to the hotel.
All right. I just got the confirmation.
We're on the direct flight to New York in the morning.
Great.
Great news on the loft. Oh, yeah?
Yeah, I got a buyer. So one less thing in our lives, right?
I kind of like the feeling.
Yeah, so do I.
I'll see you over there.
Okay.
Hey, anyone can figure out life
when you're looking back on it.
But we got to live it going forward. Right, Jakie?
Besides, four-and-a-half is great in this market.
Yeah, except I owe six to the bank.
When do I have to be out of here?
You got three months more.
By the way, I had to throw in the furniture.
What there was of it.
Did you want me to have a yard sale here for you?
(DOORBELL RINGING)
Here. Take it. Here's your pen.
Jake...
Dolores was just leaving.
Oh.
Hello to you, too, honey. Don't forget. Three months, honey.
Mmm-hmm.
Bastards changed the locks.
You weren't servicing the loans, Ma.
Well, they lied to me.
They told me they were going to give me more time.
Well, they're not, okay? They're panicking. Everyone is panicking.
They're gonna throw it in the market
and take what they can get for it, Ma.
But it's not even finished yet.
And that's not all. Look.
It's the other properties, Mom.
No, but they said they were gonna give me a little more time.
And all I need is a 1 1 0 grand,
and then that way, I can keep all three properties in play.
I know you have it, Jake. I don't have it, Mom.
You have it, Jacob. I don't have it,
and I wouldn't give it to you if I did have it.
What am I supposed to do?
You know what moral hazard is, Ma?
You know what that means? No.
It means that once you get bailed out, what's to stop you
from taking another shot?
But I...
I'm in trouble, Mom. I am in trouble right now.
I'm taking a huge hit on the loft,
I just sold my bike for nothing
and now, again, I'm writing you a check, Mom. Oh.
It's ridiculous.
This is $30,000 that I barely have.
But that's not enough, honey. Ma, I love you,
but I cannot keep hemorrhaging money for your insanity.
What you need to do is you need to go back to Henry.
You need to get another job, okay?
But this is my job. I have a job. What do you... Oh, my God.
You mean like a real job with a boss?
Yes, a real job.
I'm too old to get a... I'm sorry, Ma,
you got to start at some point.
You got to start now. I can't keep carrying you forever.
(THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY RINGTONE PLAYING)
You're not the only one who's in trouble, Ma. Please.
Hello?
DR. MASTERS: Hey, Jake. We have a problem.
Go ahead.
I don't know what happened. My CFO says the money hasn't arrived yet.
Yeah, but it was sent yesterday.
It should have been there before the Fedwire closed at 6:00.
Well, maybe there's been some sort of mistake. It was a large amount.
Okay, just sit tight.
All right?.
Jesus.
A few days? In this city that's nothing.
Mr. Gekko is good tenant.
I appreciate it.
GORDON: A fisherman always sees another fisherman from afar.
Winnie's all I got left. You understand that?.
JAKE: How much?.
Close to $1 00 million by now.
Don't go back in there, Jake.
This is who he is.
I did tell you, Jake.
I did warn you.
I lied to you, Winnie.
I've been in contact with your father behind your back.
After we saw him at the dinner,
before you gave me the money.
Why?
Because I thought it was the best thing for you, you know. For us.
I just wanted to...
You're like him.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Winnie.
I'll make it up to you. I promise I'll get the money back.
I don't care about the money, Jake! This is not about the money.
This is about you and me, and we are not good anymore.
Winn, we are good. Come on.
We are good.
Come on, Winn. We're good.
No.
We're supposed to make each other feel safe.
Otherwise, what's the point?
It's gone, Jake.
It's not. Please don't.
Take it.
Come on, Winn.
Please go.
Please.
Go.
I'm sorry.
GORDON: China, India, Brazil. Silver, oil, copper, I want to own it all.
Buy me Churchill Schwartz,
and get me updates on the other financials.
I'm looking for deals. Only good deals.
Just ride the trends. Just don't try too hard for the turns.
It's just like the old days, Bobby.
BOBBY: What do you feel about California municipals, Gordon?.
No way. California has made more mistakes
than Yogi Berra reciting Shakespeare.
(LAUGHING)
Right now, it is ugly times ugly.
And that's when the ugly get going.
You tell them for me, babe, Gordon Gekko is back.
I'm looking for distressed securities.
I'm trying to get a hold of them
before the government does. You got that?
Okay.
Here you are, Mr. Gekko.
Nice, Harry.
Well, then, Alex, you tell the Treasury Department for me
that I'm willing to stand on the other side of their auction.
Not too tight under the arms, Mr. Gekko?
(LAUGHS) Jesus Christ.
I tell you, the government's worse than a wife.
They got all the power, they got half the money.
Now they're working on getting the other half.
Hey, hey, stay positive, pal.
Most people, they lose, they whine and quit.
But you got to be there for the turns.
Everybody's got good luck, everybody's got bad luck.
Don't run when you lose. Don't whine when it hurts.
It's like the first grade, Jerry.
Nobody likes a crybaby.
SALESMAN: Whooshing sound.
I'll take four of these.
JAKE: Feels good to be back on top, huh?
(LAUGHING)
Hey, champ. What brings you to London?
You, Gordo.
You want to make one last trade?
Well, that depends.
Did you ever really want to reconcile with her?
I'm human.
Then why did you do it?
Well, it's the same answer.
Look, I told you before, Winnie was gonna stake me when I got out.
You remember, she reneged.
Sure, she did.
It makes you feel better about stealing from your own blood,
doesn't it?
Every thief has some excuse.
Hey, don't you act so superior, kid.
They took 1 22 thousand hours of my life for a victimless crime.
I ate my bitterness every goddamn day.
And when I got out, who was waiting for me?
Nobody!
Not even my own daughter.
I thought Bretton was slime until I met you.
I just never believed that a man would sell out his own daughter.
You die your way, I'll die mine. Get the hell out of here.
You know, she left me, Gordon.
Yeah?
I'm sorry about that.
Yeah? I bet you are.
You left it all in ruins.
But no matter how much money you make, you'll never be rich.
See, that's what you never got, kid. It's not about the money.
It's about the game. The game between people.
And that's all it is.
Speaking of,
what's the trade?
You give back the principal to Winnie. The $1 00 million.
And what do I get in return?
Put this in.
That's your grandson.
You said, ""The most valuable commodity I know is time.""
You're looking at time.
Not money.
This is time, Gordon.
I'm sorry, Jake, but this is simply a trade I cannot make.
You're a sad man, Gordon.
You really want to get this site on the map?
You break this story. It'll take some time, but it'll spread.
It's the single greatest transfer of wealth in American history
from Main Street to Wall Street, and it's all true.
And it will happen again because people like you and me want to be lied to.
We like bedtime stories.
I miss you like crazy, and I love you, baby, and I'm sorry.
(DIALING PHONE)
Bretton James, the rumor is that he was shorting Keller Zabel stock
before he ended up acquiring it.
Why would he do that? This is the rock star of Wall Street.
Did you hear about Bretton James?
CNBC will say he's hedging, but if you ask me it's a fraud.
It's a tiny website. Who cares?
Gekko's daughter and that smartass kid I fired, Moore.
What is this about the rumor that led
to Louis Zabel committing suicide?
Well, shorting his own company, you can't bust him for that.
But they can get him for running false rumors on Zabel,
that's serious.
It's gone viral, Bretton.
Bloomberg has a summary out on it.
Reuters is playing the story big.
It's become legitimate. Congress is next.
This bank is bigger than you, Bretton.
We know there's nothing illegal here, Jimmy.
Jack?
Julie...
Are you stupid or what?
Trading for your account in your position?
You pigged out, kid. You were making a fortune here.
What the hell is wrong with you?
Come on.
So I double-dipped.
Who hasn't?
Now, in your time, you must have done some things.
You're retiring, Julie.
Why don't you step up in front of this?
You can afford it.
I can still run this place
and make you more money than you ever dreamed.
We both know that's not going to happen, kid.
Julie.
Think about this, please.
You look for the birds.
(WHISTLES)
They're going to help you, those birds. You'll see. Good luck.
(I FEEL MY STUFF PLAYING)
I think I waited too long
I'm moving into the dollhouse
Some days we exercise
Some days we harmonize
Look away, look away Look away, oh, yeah
(SCREAMING)
I don't wanna sound like a rooster taking credit for the dawn,
but turning $1 00 million into $1. 1 billion
in this market, takes some brains, right?
My guys are good.
And it's no wonder our new fund is over-subscribed.
But for you, I'm gonna initiate a third fund.
Because, frankly, Julie, I couldn't be more excited about this.
To finally be in business with you and your firm.
And us with you, Gekko.
(WHISTLING)
Yeah.
JAKE: What is the definition of insanity?.
It's doing the same thing over and over
and expecting a different result.
By that standard, most of us are insane.
But not at the same time.
And on that basis we trust.
But can this way of life endure
if more and more people are insane at the same time?.
It becomes, as Gordon said, "Systemic. "
Like cancer.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING ON TV)
What happens then?.
Like I said,
the mother of all bubbles was the Cambrian Explosion.
And it happened by chance over 500 million years ago.
Louis Zabel, Bretton?
FEMALE REPORTER: Tell us about Louis Zabel.
Come on. Come on.
No!
Scientists will tell you it was unprecedented,
it happened in a flash.
And from it,
suddenly the world had millions of new species.
I'd love a coffee. So be in, like, 1 0.
And from that... Where are you going?
... was born us.
Look at you!
The human race.
Mr. Schwartz, I hear you are leaving us.
No, that won't be soon enough.
Oh. Have you thought about a timeshare in Florida?
I could hook you up in Boca.
Sit down, Mr. James.
Now, in that sense, bubbles are evolutionary.
This is only a preliminary proceeding.
But I want you to know you're under investigation
on accusations of tax evasion and stock manipulation
through, among others, an entity called Locust Fund.
Although, I want to first get to the matter of Louis Zabel.
I see here that you cooperated with this office
and with the federal authorities in 1 988
when the investigations of one Gordon Gekko began.
They kill excess.
They lean out the herd.
But they never die.
They just come back in different forms.
When they burst,
they give birth to a new day.
Always creating change.
Can I carry that?
You're not sleeping either?
He woke me up last night.
Yeah.
Can I?
Yeah.
There?
Yeah.
I just got off the phone with Dr. Masters.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
Very happy man.
Renewed interests from investors.
Because of your story.
So, thank you.
I miss you, Winnie.
I miss you.
I don't know how to fix this.
Neither do I.
It's different now.
What can I do? I mean, I...
Nothing.
Thank you.
Good night. Good night.
GORDON: Where are you two going?
What, nobody around here believes in comebacks?
Winn, I owe you something.
I don't want it. I never did.
No, I figured that.
But, you know, when choosing between two evils,
I like to try the one that I haven't tried before.
So I deposited a check of $1 00 million
made out to United Fusion.
From some offshore fund no one needs to know about.
Wouldn't you say green is the new bubble, Jake?
You two make a nice couple.
You know, Winn, human beings,
we got to give them a break.
We're all mixed bags.
But
my grandson,
and you...
And maybe, you know, you'll let me be a father again.
(HOME PLAYING)
The dimming of the light makes the picture clearer
It's just an old photograph
There's nothing to hide
And we'll mix our lives together
Every hand
Goes searching for its partner
In crime
Connecting
To every living soul
I'm looking for a home
Where the wheels are turning
Home Why I keep returning
Home Will infect what ever you do
Home With the neighbors fighting
Home Always so exciting
Home Were my parents telling the truth?.
What's the matter with you guys? Come on, what's the matter?
You guys are like the last two on a ship that is sinking.
That's pretty.
Isn't that a Cracker Jack box ring?
Home With our bodies touching
Home And the cameras watching
Home Comes to life from out of the blue
(THIS MUST BE THE PLACE PLAYING)
Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
I feel numb Born with a weak heart
I guess I must be having fun
The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground Head in the sky
It's okay I know nothing's wrong
Nothing
Hi, yo I got plenty of time
Hi, yo You got light in your eyes
And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money Always for love
Cover up and say good night
Say good night
Home is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home She lifted up her wings
Guess that this must be the place
I can't tell one from another
Did I find you or you find me?.
There was a time before we were born
If someone asks This is where I'll be
Where I'll be
Hi, yo We drift in and out
Hi, yo Sing into my mouth
Out of all those kinds of people
You got a face with a view
I'm just an animal looking for a home
Share the same space for a minute or two
And you love me till my heart stops
Love me till I'm dead
Eyes that light up Eyes look through you
Cover up the blank spots
Hit me on the head
Ooh
Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
I feel numb Born with a weak heart
I guess I must be having fun
The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground Head in the sky
It's okay I know nothing's wrong
Nothing
Hi, yo I got plenty of time
Hi, yo You got light in your eyes
And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money Always for love
Cover up and say good night
Say good night
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