Hollywood sempre teve uma visão mais cínica sobre o mercado financeiro americano, lembra esta matéria publicada pelo USA Today. Para não perder o gancho -- no momento em que a bolsa de Nova York registrou a maior queda de sua história -- o jornal sugere dez filmes sobre o tema que merecem ser vistos. Acima, Michael Douglas como Gordon Gekko, em "Wall Street", de Oliver Stone, um dos que está na lista de sugestões. Dei um google rápido e peguei um trecho do roteiro, uma fala de Gekko que parece bem atual (o filme é de 1987):
"The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you."
