Born in New York, he was in his prime at the age of 40 with a net worth of $470 million. He was a pioneer in the manipulation of backroom deals on Wall Street, and was particularly good at short-selling. After he married the daughter of a hotel tycoon named Kate, his fortune multiplied several times, and then he turned upside down in the real estate industry. He has a confident and assertive personality, and his wrists are quick and effective. He announced that "only the weak eat lunch" for wealth, and everything is the forerunner of interests, do you still want a friend? "Then buy a dog!" He ranked No. 14 on Forbes' avatar rich list.
He is a virtual character from the 1987 Oliver Stone classic "Business War" movie "Wall Street". I don't think the movie "Commercial Wars" at all, and Gordon Geiger, if he were to hide his identity, he was a philosopher and thinker, you can feel him just by watching his speech at the shareholders meeting. He is the most powerful opponent of Marx's "Das Kapital" on Wall Street: "Greed is good, greed is right, greed is useful, greed can clarify everything, and go straight to the essence of evolution. Greed is where all forms are. For life Be greedy, for love, for knowledge... Greed stimulates the upward motivation of human beings. Greed, remember my words, not only can save TEDA Paper (Company), but also save the United States with a dysfunctional mechanism." Someone said this line It's too impassioned, it's a defense of capitalism; but the film ends up being evil, Gordon Geiger is beaten by a fledgling boy, and the newborn calf is armed with morality and is extraordinarily powerful.
Gordon Geiger is played by Mike Douglas, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar in 1987. More than 20 years later, the old actor has returned to the arena and continued to play Gordon Gaige in his sixtieth year. The movie "Wall Street" has been released early. Even if it is delayed until its release in September this year, the contest between greed and morality has never stopped. . Wall Street 20 years ago was still reflecting on "capitalism", and aristocracy was still a word that was often mentioned, which was the opposite of "nouveau riche". To a certain extent, everyone can be a "nouveau riche" (a noun, derived from the French for "arrival". It refers to those who have recently or suddenly acquired illicit wealth or power, but have not been recognized by authority.) For example There was one man whose great-great-grandfather did a good job in the canned bean business and sent his great-grandfather to further his studies by donating a large sum of money to the Yale University library. Same goes for the guy whose great-great-grandfather was a smuggler. In this way they have three generations of family capital and theatrical history of the upper class in the United States. But let's be honest, this whole life (or only since last week) has been referred to as the "high net capital income class" rather than the "aristocrat", which is ample proof that those fictional, proud aristocratic elites have a knack for idiots Money is quite despised.
And "greed is good, is where all forms are" was also used as a crime against actor Mike Douglas. One year he was the UN Peace Ambassador, and when he met reporters, he was asked if you Wall Street people are still the same - with all your passion for greed and profit? Douglas played his new role of social morality calmly at first, and suggested that everyone should pour their enthusiasm into opposing nuclear weapons. "So, Mr. Gordon, are you saying that greed isn't good?" Douglas annoyed: "I didn't say that. My name isn't Gordon either. That's just a role I play.
" I'm curious what new philosophy Gordon Geiger will say in "Wall Street 2", but I guess it's probably a change of soup. For 20 years, old Douglas has served us as a mirror of the years. He is even older, and even his once-very-young wife, Zeta Jones, has shown the vicissitudes of life. People on Wall Street have experienced the financial crisis and the collapse of Wall Street. The upstart class became poor overnight. You can really see a young man in a suit next to the bronze bull. With a cardboard shell: "I need work." And that's only seen in movies or Fitzgerald's novels before.
Zweig wrote in "Yesterday's World": "There are so many things that are self-evident reality to me, but have become historical or inconceivable to them. But there is an instinct hidden in me that makes I think their question is justified, because all the bridges between our present and our yesterday and the day before have been torn down." When you take the opportunity to recall the style of Gordon Geiger 20 years ago, It's like a little inflatable raft that takes you upstream and peeks into the world of yesterday. Prosperity no longer exists, but "greed is good" has never changed. Not only has it not changed, in today's world, "greed is good" does not need to be debated at all, and no one mentions the style of aristocracy anymore. Have you ever seen aristocrats? Not a red aristocrat, but a representative of etiquette and tradition, a humble gentleman and aristocrats who pursue inner beauty. Greed will not be followed by "little people", it bursts with aggressive momentum, it can obtain greater wealth, greater power, and greater glory. It is bigger and bigger, so big that it really is where all forms are.
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