"Wall Street: Money Does Not Sleep." Actors of the sequel

The continuation of O. Stone's Wall Street, which has become a classic called Money Never Sleeps, looks even more exciting than the original film. A merit to this should be considered not only the efforts of the creators - director Oliver Stone and the creative team of scriptwriters, who have not lost the charisma of the lead role of Michael Douglas in a quarter century , but also the period during which the movie was released - the time of the global financial crisis.

Reiteration

The film “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) partly repeats the structure of the structure of the first picture. As in the original film, the plot is twisted around a duet of the main characters: the ex-business leader Gordon Gekko (M. Douglas) and the boyfriend of his daughter Jake Moore, who was embodied on the screen by Shia LaBeouf, who served the prison sentence. The actor was invited to the film personally by director O. Stone for his amazing resemblance to Tom Cruise, who, due to age-related changes, was no longer suitable for the role of young Moore in the drama “Wall Street: Money Does Not Sleep.” Actors performing other roles were surprised by the director's choice, in their opinion, LaBeouf is much more similar to Edward Norton. But Shia LaBeouf coped with his role - apprentice apprentice Gekko - excellent, no worse than Charlie Sheen before him. Although he could not compare with Douglas in charm and charisma, however, only Marlon Brando in his 30s could realize this task.

Paternal daughter line

“Wall Street 2: Money Does Not Sleep” (2010) provided M. Douglas with a significantly greater acting range compared to the first. In the original picture, the actor positioned his hero as a gambler, in the sequel, his character is not only a man wise by life's upheavals, but also his father, exhausted by the breakdown in relations with his daughter Vinnie (Carrie Mulligan). The girl blames her father for the death of her brother, who died from an overdose of drugs. The director uses this father-daughter line to the fullest, wanting to attract a more emotionally receptive female audience to the "financially-stock" film. The director’s task is also realized by the character of Jake’s mother, who is sick of credit, performed by Susan Sarandon. The actress created a characteristic image that is essential for understanding the film "Wall Street: Money Does Not Sleep." Actors who played secondary roles, embodying the creators' ideas on the screen, proved their professionalism, worked smoothly, interacting correctly.

About the plot, without spoiler

The father-daughter storyline develops according to a sinusoid precisely calculated by the author, the periods of attraction in it alternate with the moments of repulsion, until the last minutes of the timing of the picture subtly acting on the perception of especially emotional viewers. But of primary importance in the film is still the financial line, in which the motive of revenge plays the primary role. The main characters Moore and Gekko intend to ruin the unprincipled Bretton James (actor Josh Brolin), who in the past intentionally hurt Gordon and ruined the company in which Jake worked. This is the main intrigue of cinema drama. Reviews and reviews of the film “Wall Street: Money Don't Sleep” mark the presence of 95-year-old Eli Wallach, who played the role of James' senior partner, which is significant for the semantic background of the picture. By the way, the domestic audience first saw the veteran actor in the movie "The Magnificent Seven" (1962) in the role of leader of the bandits Kalvera. World fame Wallach brought Western "Good, bad, evil" Sergio Leone, in which he played the role of Bad.

The advantages of movie drama

The combination of the three most popular genres - family drama, intellectual action and “revenge movie”, coupled with a magnificent acting ensemble make the movie drama an emotional and literally bewitching spectacle. According to the reviews of the audience, every appearance in the frame of Douglas was perceived with genuine enthusiasm, the watchers were ready to shout “Bravo!” as beneficiaries in the theater. The director uses a multi-screen montage, which drives suspense, turning the standard "financial-exchange" drama into an ultra-stylish movie. After filming the movie “Wall Street: Money Doesn’t Sleep,” the actors believed Stone, who surprisedly told the entire ensemble that the audience often approached him and admitted that they started playing on the stock exchange after watching “Wall Street” in 1987. After the release of the sequel, they predict a repeat of the story.

Happy end

The happy ending of the Wall Street sequel was predictable and just as inevitable as the global financial collapse predicted by Gekko's protagonist. But it wasn’t there, a relaxed audience almost in the finale awaits an unexpected plot twist, which makes one suspect that Gekko, along with others, has deceived both his future son-in-law and his own daughter. However, family values ​​will still prevail over commercialism, the main character will return money to future newlyweds. Such an ending would probably be a failure for another picture, but in this one it causes only a smile of relief through a treacherously rolling tear. That is what O. Stone intended the end of the Wall Street sequel: Money Does Not Sleep. The actors involved in the work on the project were happy to collaborate with a true professional in their field.