Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – Teaser Trailer
When we all first heard that plans were afoot to make a Wall Street sequel, collective groans could be heard around the world (& not it a good way). Really? A Wall Street sequel? Did no one pay attenton to the other 80′s classic The Lost Boys sequel? Or the way everyone started to run away from the proposed Point Break sequel? Then we heard that Oliver Stone was coming back to direct. Hmm, intersting we thought. Then Michael Douglas was onboard and plot details started to leak. The film was going to be set in a realistic timeline – Gekko has served his 20 years in prison and is released back into a world where ‘Greed’ is not only good but is now legal and where the worlds financial markets are crumbling down.
Simply put, this trailer is awesome. It does everything a trailer should do. It gives you just enough of the storyline to be interested, it shows you enough of a glimpse into the characters lives to let you believe you know who they are but most importantly it gives you Michael Douglas revisiting his most iconic role, a wiser and more manipulative man. The driving, industrial, Nine Inch Nails-esque music instantly alerts you to a different era from that of the old Wall Street. Stone uses universal symbols of greed to clinical effect to convey how out of time Gekko has become. A Silk Hankerchief, a Gold Money-clip (empty) and in prehaps one of the greatest trailer moments of recent years – a Mobile Phone. But not just any mobile phone, this is your 80′s, the size of a brick mobile phone. Gekko is old and out of place and Stone shows us. To me, I hope they never release another trailer for this film. This is all anyone ever needs to see.
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