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Gordon Gekko’s extreme makeover

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We know the “greed is good” speech by heart. We’ve committed enough of the dialogue from the original film to memory that, with the release of Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, the temptation might be to write off this sequel to Oliver Stone’s barbed paean to the amphetamine 80’s. But surprise: Stone has reinvented and updated Gordon Gekko, the rapacious securities trader played by Michael Douglas. The character we’ve loved to hate for 20+ years is back with what The Daily Beast’s Randall Lane calls “a winningly contemporary makeover” in a film whose verisimilitude owes much to two hedge-fund managers who helped make Gekko II — and Wall Street 2010 — all too greedily real.  
        
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