Analyzing Evil: Gordon Gekko From Wall Street 

That "flaw" is explained by Gekko's greed and selfishness having taken over his other senses. Greed made him do it, and selfishness made him think nothing would happen to him because of how influential person he is

Nice analysis, I enjoy when people criticize villains based on their objective failures in accomplishing their goal; as opposed to any moral grounds. Gekko definitely could've executed the process in a multitude of better ways than he did.

@@derrickstorm6976 It's not only that, Gekko explicitely saw Wall Street as a sum-zero game with winners and losers. Him buying Bluestar's equity at a low price, then liquidating its assets, would have been financially sound if, after analyzis, Gekko had concluded that there was no better way to turn the company's profitability around. Gekko's hubris was that this idea never entered his consideration, because he was dead-set in his dog-eats-dog mentality. Gekko meeting Bud again in the second movie shows an other way that plants the seed for Gekko's change of heart at the end, which would be totally out-of-character for a corporate sociopath like Gekko. His old nemesis, Sir Larry Wildman, went the other way and believed Bud Fox's thesis that Bluestar was salvageable. Even after his stint in prison, Bud had earned such much goodwill from everyone at Bluestar that, despite him being a corporate felon with a criminal record, he was voted back as CEO and allowed to make all the necessary cuts which turned Bluestar around. Far from being a Wall Street loser, Bud Fox did it as a "good guy" and ended up building his fortune doing so.

Obviously... You think someone with gekkos stature wouldn't know this...? If Gekko's firm has the mandate to invest debt restructuring they will... Look at how they trade, it's fast, highly liquid and emotionless. They are 1 person in the market, that's what makes a market...

no you missed the crucial line that Gekko uttered when Bud asked why he wrecked Bluestar? "Because it was WRECKABLE". The value of the numbers added up to more than the value of his alliance with Bud because he knew that even as a potential enemy, Bud Fox was no match against the Gekko machine. Also, Gekko even mentioned the story of the honeypot to Bud - the same very honeypot he had ensnared Fox in as his apprentice. An apprentice in which he also saw a younger version of himself.

what "say" should they have? Tell me. I want to use it when I suefor keeping my job as a payphone repairman.

Hurt them back ruin the short sellers Edit: Got my terminology wrong

That presupposes that they, by right, are owed the job and that the loss of the job is a violation of said right. Nobody is owed a job.

So many bootlickers responding to this comment defending Gecko.

socialism will win my friend 🚩🚩

True, people are dumb as hell they emulated the gekko, the Tony Montana, the Michael and Vito Corleone...it just shows how easily corrupted the human nature Can be...smh!

True. I heard Michae Duglas in an interview state this fact.

I also heard a story about a stock trader who told the creators that he thanked them as he was originally studying to become a doctor before watching the movie.

Gekko is an American icon

Pat Riley inspired that hair

Yes that is a must now that Gordon has made the list.

Yes please this

He wasn't the villain, he just wasn't economically viable.

Especially in the scene at the country club house with the family where he first realizes he might be the bad guy

@@urielmejia8127 exactly or when he's trying to get breakfast at the fast food joint and hes 2 minutes past 1030. so he straight up pulls a gun on the employees and then realizes when he's already instilled fear in everyone that he'll just take a burger

Gordon gekko is a sociopath

Well those psychopaths RUN the show of our lives and our society so people should start learn from them if we don’t want to loose in their game

You could say nothing has changed in 40 years, even at the cost of one market created crash/recession after another.

@@GhostRydr1172 True but you could also say it was more aesthetically popular back then. Or at the very least, Reagonimics had yet to be disproven beyond belief

@That Guy indeed. Now Vile Eye states that Gordon is a sociopath and it begs the question I formulated years ago to someone that didn't believe in evil. Is evil real? Is all that we deem as "evil" is just various degrees of sociopathy, psychopathy or any other mental disorder. I just don't think so. Nen and women can commit evil acts, repent and "sin no more" without therapy/meds.. Are they mentally ill? Are antisocial jerks that do bad things continuously for kicks and without penance just mentally ill? It doesn't seem that simple an answer and to me mentally illness sounds more like a convenient excuse than underlying cause.

@@GhostRydr1172 It's gotten worse, much worse.

You guys mean nothing has changed in all of human history, right? Greed is one of the most primordial existential motivations lol, all of the greatest people in history were greedy bastards. Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander, Elizabeth, etc. Losers tell everyone that we shouldn't be greedy because they *lack the ability to satisfy their own greed* lmao. Fuck em, go achieve greatness

Fully agree, though I have to point out a few things: -Slavery back then was pretty common. So many empires back then reached their prosperity through the use of slaves. Even the Hebrews had slaves of their own after they conquered Israel. -The Bible is somewhat contradictory. In this part, they say that Hebrews being enslaved is wrong, and yet there is another part where it says that slaves should obey their masters with both respect and fear. So, does that mean that everyone can be enslaved and have to be obedient except the Hebrews? -It's weird that Ramses' father, Seti, was the one who started the whole thing, and he even murdered Hebrew babies, and yet Ramses was the one being punished for simply following his father's traditions. -While not shown in the movie, the Bible states that Ramses was pretty close of letting the Hebrews go, but every time God hardened his heart and made him stay stubborn. I am a devoted Christian, but this whole part always made me feel weird. Just because I am a Christian, it doesn't mean that I have to agree with everything written on the Bible.

@@lisboah I believe the Bible to be a Paleolithic version of asops fables. Meant to teach lessons but clumsily told

You'd basically have to do Prince of Egypt and The 10 Commandments in one video because the character is essentially the same.

@@lisboah The Hebrews weren't actually slaves. They were given land on Egypt's frontier because they were excellent soldiers. Eventually Egypt got concerned about how good of warriors they were so started paying them to work on public works projects for which they were paid. So they went from mercenaries to common laborers which was not ok with the Hebrews

@@nickdarr7328 Wow, that's actually interesting.

So you listen to me and you listen well. Are you behind on your credit card bills? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Does your girlfriend think you're a fucking worthless loser? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich! - Jordan Belfort, the wolf of wall street

They’re really the same person excpect for the fact Jordan’s real and more obsessed with himself making him a lot worse (also his voice in real life is annoying as fuck)

​@@zill0678 Gotta be honest, as bad as Jordan is, I can't watch that film without wanting to go crazy, like pouring milk first then cereal last

@@JoePesciBallsack maybe so but you still get cereal. I think if Vile Eye choose to cover Jordan Belfort he would make the decision if the real Jordan and the movie Jordan are similar enough to analyze as one character like previous villain's.

Great idea

I had to rewind it since he used such philosophical dialect

I rewatched Falling Down for the first time in many years and it is still fantastic. :D I like that D-FENS doesn't become a monster over the course of it; he already was. We just see a man we empathise with and then gradually become more and more concerned with every action he takes and each piece of information we learn about him.

Always

Yessir it is

I mean to be fair this is what any investor does: hopefully sell a stock more than you paid for it.

Many of the Bond villains (especially the literary ones) would be welcome additions to the channel. I would also add a few suggestions to your list too including The Jackal (Day of the Jackal), Edgar (Men In Black), Ma-Ma (Dredd), Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Hellboy), Tom Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley) Don Logan (Sexy Beast) Clarence Boddiker (Robocop) and Anton Phibes (The Abominable Dr. Phibes)

I’m not sure Tommy Shelby or Wesley Gibson are villains.

I’d like to add Blackheart from ‘Ghost Rider’, and Frank Nitti from ‘The Untouchables.’

Fletcher is such a evil sucker..lol..i can't stand the end justify means type of people, specially for superficial things such as Glory, power, money, ego etc..

I wouldn't say Omni Man. He is a soldier.

​@@undeadblizzard So were Nazis

@@leonrobinson8180True.

That may be a little too tricky although awesome if done well. But I doubt RU-vid would monetise such content.

@@LucLB01 Good point

It's harder to sum up a human being than a character, because people are infinitely more complex and messy, with a pile of additional details thrown into their lives that may or not be relevant to why they do what they do. Still, plenty of true crime documentaries and podcasts give it a shot.

While Sauron is my favorite villain from the Tolkien universe, both Saruman and Gollum would be the most interesting to analyze.

There's not much to say about Saruman and Sauron, their evil nothing much to explain there, except for Gallum&Smigle, he's a good case study tho

I would be more interested in a video about the ring itself. A sentient and malevolent McGuffin.

It's funny how Tyler durden is the extreme opposite of Gordon gekko lol...

@@Bombadil-ez9ns That ain't bad actually.🤔 That's like asking if the Devil is truly evil or just a troll. And that can be a legit question, if he tempts is he really evil or did he tease the evil already within you to emerge. I've teased someone into fighting me to the point of they drew a knife and I still doing just to fuq with him.

I could see that. The character (and film itself, thanks in no small part to writer/director Oliver Stone) is meant to be a representation of everything wrong with 1980s America--greed, ignorance, self-centeredness, callousness, hypocrisy, and short-sightedness personified into one despicable weasel of a man. And as you said, Gekko is far from alone in terms of '80s fictional characters wrongly looked up to as role models rather than cautionary tales by those wanting cheap ways to feel better about themselves without putting in the actual hard work of soul-searching and self-improvement.

ah if only learning was easy, I'd be rich

In a few years, artificial intelligence will take care of the most difficult mathematical calculations and perform the best market analysis. I even dare to say that the job of broker is in danger of extinction.

People motivated by money and material possessions such as gekko are unbearable..the movie was made to criticize greed but dumb audience didn't get the message..they only Saw his dumb lavish lifestyle and wanted the same thing..smh!

Work in Data then

@@LucasN00b Genetics play a key part in it being more difficult unfortunately, something you can’t really control…

Gekko wasn't speaking about ambition but pure greed..people lie to themselves..

@@fideletamo4292 Ambition drove his greed or greed drove his ambition. I've never really understood which came first.

Which Tom Ripley? IMO Damon's is superior

@@jessebrucepinkman9834 i only Saw the damon's version Never Saw the original..how it was?

Definitely NOT Chris Rock.

@@TeamCat1128 why not Chris rock? He’s not truly a fault here at all due to the situation, it’s mainly smith’s fault.

How's was that evil?It was more of a lack of communication.

Honestly KOTOR has a lot of pretty interesting villains that would be cool to analyze. We have Kreia, Revan, Darth Nihilus, the Sith Emperor... Honestly, Vitiate is one of the few villains in fiction that probably could surpass Palpatine in terms of body count and manipulation.

The perfect Kreia video already exists.

What the hell is a "casual"?😆

@@doctorthirteen5499 People who only watch mainstream movies like dark knight. There’s not many arthouse movies on this channel.

Movie is great, definitely worth a watch!

The first one is a classic. Don't bother seeing the sequel, unless you're really, really bored

I see this request on almost all the videos he's done(some made by yours truly). Someday hopefully he does Verbal Kent/Keyser Soze. If I had 3 wishes I'd wish understanding, world peace, and vile eyes take on Keyser soze😆.

Vic Mackey 100%

@@Joe_Karably an episode about Vic Mackey would be as long or longer than the Tony Soprano episode. Vic did some pretty heinous things to put it lightly.

Martin Scorsese sighned a petition defending Polanski for raping a girl so forget all Scorsese. Oliver Stone is awful but not the same level, Stone unforgivably ungayed Alexander the Great who preferred Hephaestion, and as close friend and band mate Ray Manzarek said, removed the humor and fun from the false portrait of Jim Morrison

Here’s another: psychopaths are born; sociopaths are made. In the grande scheme, a psychopath would carve up a sociopath.

The 1st wall street movie was GREAT and inspired me to become a Trader BUT I thought the 2nd one was trash. This 1st one was so good because Oliver Stone's Father was a Wall Street Broker so that's how he was able to write such a great script and Gekko's character was a mix of actual Guys on Wall Street.

@@gheechiedan9299 yeah the second one definitely paled in comparison but it was still kinda ok

Dennis would be a great video too.

People literally idolized this movie , and it’s because they want to be just like him … all I saw was a gangster who used the market and finance instead of a gun and intimidation

"Greed is Good bullshit" Meanwhile, all of human history: