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WALL STREET

Johnny Cockrocker
WALL STREET
In the big city of New York there always exist those who push the envelope a bit, and
stretch the law. One such man played by Michael Douglas makes money buying and selling
others dreams. He is a stock speculator; but one that succeeds based on illegal inside
information. As he puts it I make nothing, I own Released in 1987, Oliver Stone's Wall
Street is a representation of bad morals and poor business ethics in the business world.
It also shows the negative effects, bad morals and poor business ethics can have on
society. The film revolves around the actions of two main characters, Bud Fox (Charlie
Sheen) and Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). Bud is a young stockbroker who comes from a
working-class family and Gekko is a millionaire who Bud admires and wants to be
associated with. Wall Street points out how wrong it is to exchange morality for money.
Gordon Gekko reflects this message, and yet receives a standing ovation at a stockholders
meeting after delivering his greed is good speech. The underlying theme of the movie is
that greed is not only not ethical but it lacks moral substance in today's society. 


  
    
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Women In Alien 3
This morning I was struck by the realization that I've beengoing to movies for fifty
years now; starting when I was eighteenmonths old, my mother would take me on a streetcar
every Thursday togo shopping, have lunch, and go to a matinee and stage show at
thePantages or the Orpheum in downtown Los Angeles. Clearly I likemovies and I usually
find something enjoyable even about bad ones.I can hardly remember a time when I have
seriously consideredwalking out of a film. But I considered it yesterday afternoon asI
was watching Aliens 3; I was thinking it was the mostunremittingly unpleasant film
viewing experience I could remember. This reaction has to be seen in the context of my
own tastes andbiases. Science fiction and horror films are my least favoritegenres. I
don't enjoy being frightened in the movies, as somepeople clearly do. Nonetheless,
knowing that nearly every memberof the women's community in Tallahassee where I lived at
the timewas wildly enthusiastic about Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, I didbring myself to see
Aliens the second film in this series, and Ihave to admit, I too, was entertained and
pleased by the sight ofthis powerful female hero doing her Rambo number against
whatfeminist theorist Lynda Zwinger called the uncanny alien bugmother. Since Ripley's
ongoing battles against this monster and againstthe greedy machinations of the Company
back home, which wants tocapture the monster and use it as a biological warfare weapon,
havebecome sort of feminist cult films, I figured I'd better be amongthe first to check
out Aliens 3 and see what happened to Ripleyand Newt (the little girl she rescued from
the monster at the endof Aliens). Well, they've fallen on hard times. They crash landnear
an island used as a prison for 25 of the hardest corecriminals on earth--murderers,
rapists, etc.--all of whom havebecome members of a kind of Christian fundamentalist cult
thathasn't done a thing to temper their rampant misogyny. Everyoneelse on the space
capsule bringing the sleeping survivors of theNostromo back to earth has died except
Ripley. She's been asleepfor 50 years or so and has been shaken up in the crash, so
she'slooking a little the worse for wear with a black eye and deathlypallor. Furthermore
in this latter day version of a medievaldungeon she's landed they dress her in convict
gray and shave herhead which makes her fit right in with the inmates. The onlyperson
there who's even remotely pleasant is the doctor, himself aformer inmate, with whom
Ripley asks to have sex (it's been over 50years, you know); while we don't see them in
the act, theimplication was it was purely the utilitarian satisfaction of anurge, still
Ripley has to pay the price for it later on. The whole visual milieu of the film is grim.
The colorspectrum is dark browns and blacks, dirty tans and grays, fiery,hellish yellows
and reds. The only spots of other colors are a fewpieces of turquoise blue stained glass
in the doctor's quarters, tolet you know he had some aesthetic sensibilities, I guess.
The setis something like an abandoned underground steel mill with miles of filthy,
rotting, decaying tunnels. The only organic matter we seeis blood and gore, the monster,
and this wholly gruesome pack ofconvicts who do, out of terror and the notion they have
nothing tolose, do come together under Ripley's leadership to try to kill thething with
no weapons but the decaying prison itself to use. Aliens at least had some spots of
humorous repartee. Aliens3 has almost none. It's grim, grim, grim. And though
Sigourneyhas a few heroic moments, she's sick and weak and not up to her previous
standards. Though this time--I think--she finally does inthe alien bug mother and its
children. I hope so, I don't thinkthe world can use yet another Alien movie.