2006-08-11 15:33:05 · 4 answers · asked by killin_puppet 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Wall Street. Remember Gordon Gekko's speech to the Teldar Paper shareholders?
"I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
Check it out.
2006-08-11 15:41:04 · answer #1 · answered by Fogjazz49-Retired 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Beautiful Mind
2006-08-11 22:40:44 · answer #2 · answered by math guru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wall Street is a great one. Disclosure is also a Michael Douglas movie about the business world, and Working Girl is good too.
2006-08-11 23:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by Jetgirly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like this is a teacher/prof. looking for sources, so...
Off-the-top-of-my-head:
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Wall Street (capitalist perspective)
Family Man (supply/demand)
I'm Alright Jack (labour - socialist perspective)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Anyone, anyone?)
Wedding Crashers (pay attention to Christopher Walken's advice to his daughter)
Other People's Money (Devito as a liquidator)
Dirty Pretty Things (Supply/Demand)
Monday's in the Sun (Labour)
Roger and Me (had to get Moore in there - corporations)
The Big One (more Moore - corporations)
Tucker (a standard in Social Studies classes)
Boiler Room (trading)
Trading Places (Stocks)
Working Girl (contracts/employment)
Erin Brokovich (externalities/costs)
Civil Action (ditto)
Silkwood (ditto/labour)
Catch-22 (watch carefully - there's criticism of just about everything: business, government, religion, and so on)
The Corporation (documentary features Fraser Institute, Chomsky, Moore and a host of others)
Super-Size Me (documentary - consumer/corporate interactions)
The Lorax (child's short - don't laugh - a friend of mine used it for a university lecture on environmental costs)
The Fountainhead (yech! - capitalist perspective - Randist)
Blade Runner (capitalist/technological dystopia)
Gung Ho! (worker relations/ international trade/ globalization)
Devil's Advocate (a fav - look for Milton's quote: "You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals...")
And let's finish with a silent film:
Modern Times (Chaplin - workers/employment)
2006-08-11 23:55:13 · answer #4 · answered by T.J. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋