Gorgocutie looking like a million Bitcoins
I watched the two movies back-to-back. It was a good sequel to Wall Street, I have to admit that. I’m not sure I’ve seen the first one, and I definitely hadn’t seen the sequel. Though I do remember the Tulipomania scene for some reason.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about greed and the mythography in that movie.
First of all, I wanna say that I love how it’s shown. Gekko is greedy, obsessed with cutting-edge technology for that time, the Buddy character is drawn into that world. He’s cuckolded, led by the nose, even framed without him knowing.
For the sequel, we have an amazing opening scene for Gekko, he’s given his mobile phone, the brick, which is ridiculous nowadays “..and one… mobile phone.” He’s out of jail, we think the limo is for him, but no, nobody is waiting for him.
So, he sets out to rebuild it all. I was certain that he would eventually rebuild it all, and it does happen through manipulating his son-in-law and his daughter.
Anyway, despite all that I enjoyed the movie. It had a bit of symbology in it. Gekko explains the Tulipomania, how a bubble is formed. He leaves the frame in the abandoned apartment when he inevitably takes off with their money.
Another neat symbology in the sequel was the overarching theme of time. He mentions quite a few times that time is the only valuable commodity.
Also, in the main antagonist’s lair, he has the draft painting of Goya of Kronos devouring his children. Which is another mythical downfall, and it was a simile of Kronos, time, eating his children.
In the end, he destroys that painting in his rage, yet another deadly sin. In general the entire movie was full of sin, and I loved that.
But, it’s a very quotable movie. I kinda like it, and I might even write something about such a greedy person in my universe. But my Gekko is gonna go through a proper Greek tragedy and experience his downfall.
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