Sunday, April 4, 2010

Plot Problems in Oliver Stone's New Wall Street


So, I just saw this trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone's much-belated follow-up to the 1987 classic, Wall Street. Michael Douglas is back as Gordon Gekko. This time, the upstart protege who falls victim to the machinations of Mr. Gekko is Shia LeBeouf, playing a guy who is engaged to Gekko's daughter, Winnie (Carey Mulligan). Funny thing about this plot line: In the original Wall Street, Gordon Gekko didn't have a daughter. He had a son named Rudy (played by Sean Stone). Unless that little boy had a sex change (hell, this is 2010) or Mulligan's playing a bastard child of a mistress (like maybe Daryl Hannah's character Darien), this storyline makes no sense.


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