Movie Clips Classic Trailers: Other People's Money (1991) Starring Danny DeVito and Gregory Peck

Source:Movie Clips Classic Trailers- Starring Gregory Peck.

"A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamored of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal maneuvering as he tries to win her heart.

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"A corporate raider buys up shares in an undervalued company and falls in love with the founder's son's lawyer/step daughter. Let the battle begin."

Source:IMDB- Starring Danny DeVito.

From IMDB

A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>"

Source:IMDB- Starring Danny DiVito.

From IMDB

Other People's Money is a satire about corporate America and what happens there. When someone tries to do a hostile takeover of another company where an investor or a group of investors of a company, decide they don't like how that company is being run. And believe they can do it much better.

Is similar to Wall Street from 1987, but you have Danny DeVito as the lead. So it's a very funny movie which is what you get from Danny DeVito in pretty much any movie he's ever done. He plays someone who's essentially (pardon the term a prick) but does it in such a charming and funny way, you almost have to like the guy. Sort of the way Larry Hagman played JR Ewing on Dallas.

DeVito plays Larry Garfield a Wall Street investor, who essentially buys up companies. And then sells them fro a profit which is how he makes his money. Very similar to the role Michael Douglas played in Wall Street, playing Gordon Gecko.

The ironic thing about this movie to me and I'm not trying to sound partisan here, but this should be a movie that's targeted towards Conservatives. Because it's about private enterprise, the person with the most money and the best management skills to make the most money ends up getting the company he wants.

Yes, it has a Hollywood leftist slant to it. Making the Wall Street guy look like a prick, a charming prick at that. But the big shot gets what he wants, what he goes after. And there's nothing illegal about it, unlike the Gekko character who gets his information through insider trading.

But here's where I'm going with this: Larry Garfield in the movie trying to make the case that he can spend these people's money better than them: "Give me your company and I'll spend your money better for you on your behalf."

The title of the movie is Other People's Money, that's a clue big enough that Stevie Wonder could see. Conservatives and Libertarians have been arguing for years that no one can spend the people's money better than the people themselves.

When someone tells you they can spend your money better than you ask them for a hundred bucks, a blank check even and then tell them you are going to spend that money on their behalf, just to see what kind of reaction you get from them. That's the argument that the Larry Garfield character was trying to make in this movie: "I can spend your money better than you."

Ken Pruitt: Wall Street (1987) Gordon Gekko: 'Greed is Good'

Source:Ken Pruitt- Gordon Gekko's Greed is Good speech, from Wall Street 1987.

Source:The New Democrat 

"Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good" Full Speech *read the description*Gordon Gekko *unknowningly* describes the problems facing today's private sector, while blasting the bureaucracy responsible for said problems in the first place. A classic speech, both in film and, also, within economic thought." 

From Ken Pruitt

Best part of the first Wall Street movie at least and one of my favorite movies of all-time. And whatever you think of the Gordon Gekko character, or even what you think of Michael Douglas who played him, Douglas did a great job. And what made this speech so great was how accurate and real it was. Here are these people trying to make Gordon Gecko look like this greedy bastard when if anything they are just like Gekko. 

Except that Gekko is better and knows what companies are worth buying and how much he should spend on them and how to reform them. So he can make a profit off of them and of course there was some insider-trading involved here. But the facts and points of the Gekko speech are still the same that greed is good and he explains why. That without greed people wouldn’t want things for themselves. 

Without greed people wouldn’t work as hard so they could have things for themselves. So they could be as successful as possible and enjoy the fruits of their labor. And enjoy being successful, that we are all greedy, it’s just that some people are better at it than others. And people are all greedy at least to a certain extent, that it's just a matter of degree. It's not that we aren't greedy, but what level of greed is tolerable in a free society that is really the question.

Oliver Stone: Wall Street (1987) Starring Michael Douglas & Charlie Sheen

Source:C64 BETA- Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas.

"Movie Trailer - 1987 - Wall Street"

From C64 Beta

Wall Street from 1987 is a very good movie about what its like to work on Wall Street and what life is like around it. Perhaps not the most accurate movie, but definitely based on reality about a man who has a lot of power on Wall Street in Gordon Gecko played by Michael Douglas. Who basically makes his living buying companies and selling them for profits as well as investing in other companies. His company if you want to call it that, doesn't make or produce anything. He buys and sells stocks as well as companies and sometimes buys companies that are losing a lot of money. Turns them around so they are profitable, even if that means laying off a lot of people and then sells those companies.

That character in this movie is named Gordon Gecko of course played of course by Michael Douglas with the famous line "greed is good" which I'll get to later, which also has to do with today's debate about Wall Street and another main character called Bud Fox played by of course Charlie Sheen, probably his best movie even though its not his funniest, whose a young up incomer on Wall Street, looking for the fast track whose basically a good guy from a good family but discovers Gordon Gecko and decides Gecko is his trip to the top.

Bud Fox wants to work with Gordon Gecko or for him. But Gecko only wants to work with the young Fox, if Fox has insider knowledge so they can do some insider trading. Which of course is illegal, but Fox is the son of a union leader and someone who works for an independent airline played of course by Martin Sheen. Who's Charlie's real life father and the airline is about to get sold and that's where the inside knowledge comes in. And Bud Fox has what Gordon Gecko needs to buy the independent airline. 

Bud Fox's connection with Gordon Gecko is about how his knowledge of his father's business and how they can use that to buy that airline. And Fox's ability to scout Gecko's competition and get inside knowledge on them sort of like a spy. And they use that to always stay a step ahead and make sure they are always able to bid more than the competition. Because they know what the competition is able to bid and how much capital they have and what their strengths and weakness's are.

My favorite line in the movie is where Gordon Gecko gives that speech at the stockholders meeting at some company. The famous Greed is Good speech. And the funny thing is even though I'm a Democrat and greed can definitely be bad if miss used like the greed we saw in 2008 that led to the Great Recession. And to a certain extent is still going on is obviously bad and I'm not disputing that. Where corporate executives were allowed to make their companies too big, ran them into the ground and then got bailed out by taxpayers and then walked away with huge bonus's. 

But as Gordon Gecko said "greed is good, because greed allows for people to be as productive as possible to make as much money as possible. And grows companies as much as possible to make create as many good jobs as possible". The main reason why Wall Street is so relevant today, because of course of the Occupy Wall Street movement that's going on today because of their bad practices in the past and their abuse of greed as I just laid out. And how unpopular Wall Street has become today, not as unpopular as Congress (but that would be a hell of an accomplishment for anyone to accomplish) and is a great movie period as far as I'm concern. But also a great movie if you're interested in OWS. 

Robert Altman: Nashville (1975)

Source:FURY- Karen Black, singing in Nashville 1975. 

Source:The Daily Post

“Ce film raconte le destin de 24 personnages, issus de milieu musicaux ou politiques, qui vont se croiser dans la ville du disque et de la country, Nashville, Tennessee, au cours de cinq jours d’été au cœur des années 70.”

From FURY

“Five days in the Nashville country and gospel music scene, filled with stars, wannabe stars, and other hangers-on – individual stories of this small group intertwined – provides a commentary on American society. The stars include: good ol’ boy Haven Hamilton, whose patriotic songs leading up to the American bicentennial belie his controlling and ruthless nature; Barbara Jean, the country music darling who is just returning to Nashville and performing following recovery from a fire-related injury which may have taken more of an emotional toll than a physical one; and good looking and charismatic Tom Frank, one-third of the successful group Bill, Mary, and Tom, he who is trying to go solo, which masks his need to not be solo in his personal life as he emotionally abuses woman after woman in love with him, including Mary who is married to Bill. The wannabe stars include: Albuquerque, whose real name is Winifred, who is trying to run away from her husband Star in he not approving of her … Written by Huggo” 

Source:IMDB- poster for Nashville (1975)

From IMDB 

The 1970s, really as a whole was one of the most divisive times for American politics. It was when whoever was left that actually trusted the U.S. Government to do the right thing and even tell them the truth, had ended.

You had the Vietnam War in the mid and late 1960s with President Lyndon Johnson. You had President Richard Nixon, who was stuck between wanting to get America the hell out of Vietnam and yet not actually be seen as losing the war. Sort of like a person stuck between wanting to kill someone and marrying them.

And then you had Watergate, with that, plus the other scandals of the Nixon White House, led the House of Representatives to vote for impeachment of President Nixon.

Without Vietnam and Watergate, Jimmy Carter remains a peanut brain, I mean peanut farmer from Georgia, who probably runs for and wins reelection as Governor of Georgia. America, especially after President Gerry Ford, who just happened to be President Nixon’s Vice President and personal friend, pardons Richard Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate coverup and all other crimes that President Nixon was involved in as President of the United States.

Congressional Democrats, in 1974, don’t win landslides in the House and Senate, because suddenly it just occurs to Americans that Republicans are devils and Democrats are saints. Democrats, won the 1974 Congressional mid-terms, because they weren’t Republicans.

There was this feeling in the America in the mid-1970s, especially as President Nixon resigns and gets the bailout of a lifetime and is pardoned by his Vice President, that the country was way off. Way off like a 747 yet without radar flying in the clouds in the Caribbean, with both pilots and the navigator, high, drunk and blind, all at the same time. And that it was time for America to get back on course and try something else. Try something that wasn’t a Democrat, or a Republican. Or at the very least not a Washington Democrat, or Republican. And I believe Nashville reflects those feelings of the country. 

As far as this movie, it looks to me anyway like a two-hour forty-minute country music concert. Which would have been fine with me, if I were a country music fan. And it didn’t snow in Minnesota in January. Good luck seeing either. With some politics mixed in from time to time.

Dads Old Tapes: '1980 Commercial- Vote Republican For a Change'

Source:Dads Old Tapes- this is a very good Republican Party commercial.

"Democrats have run out of gas!

Gotta say this was a very well done ad - considering how 1980 would be the last year a Democrat would be in the white house until 1993."

Source:Dads Old Tapes

One of the funniest political commercials I've ever seen. There's nothing that I disagree with in this commercial. The Democratic Party controlled the entire Congress (House & Senate) from 1955-81 and controlled the Congress and The White House with President Jimmy Carter, from 1977-81. 

The Democratic Party accomplished a lot of good things when they were in complete control in the 1960s, but by 1978-79, they were running out of ideas, if not completely out of ideas, at least as far as policies that would work and were popular. And the country was in really bad shape by the time 1980 came around. And the country was ready for a change in leadership both in The White House with Ronald Reagan, but in Congress as well, with Republicans winning back the Senate for the first time since 1955 and picking up 30 seats in the House.

HBO: 'The Buzz: Ethel Premiere'

Source:HBO- from HBO's film about Ethel Kennedy.

"The Buzz was at the premiere of the HBO Documentary, "Ethel."

Source:HBO

This is a documentary about Ethel Kennedy who of course was the wife of former U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York Robert F. Kennedy. As well as the sister in-law of President John F. Kennedy and sister in-law of U.S. Senator from MassachusettsTed Kennedy. Who is now in her late eighties and still reasonable healthy and has survived her husband by over forty years.

Not as high profiled as former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy who after she left the White House due to her husband's assassination in 1963 because a New York celebrity in the fashion on journalism scene. Ethel has been more laid back and has stayed away from the spotlight and has been more of a behind the scenes figure in the Kennedy Family and their political dynasty. And has done work fundraising for her family when they've run for office and has raised money for other causes. She was critical to her husband's political success in the 1960s as far as offering advice and keeping his strength up, but not as public as a figure. 

PBS: The Choice (2012) Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama

Source:PBS- Governor Mitt Romney vs President Barack Obama, for President (2012)

"A journey into the places, people, and decisive moments that made the men who are competing for the presidency. Hundreds of hours of research and dozens of original interviews reveal new details and fresh insights about the two candidates — and our choice this November." 

From PBS

This should be interesting and informative, because it will give Independents especially a better idea of who Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are and what their backgrounds are as well. 

If you take Mitt Romney's word for where he is politically now today and pretend his politics from the 1990s and early 2000s never existed (perhaps you're an Alzheimer's patient or not even old enough to vote yet today) then this really is clear choice.

You have a Center-Right somewhat neoconservative Northeastern Republican in Mitt Romney, (or at least that is how he's running for president) vs a Progressive Democrat in Barack Obama.

Barack Obama who believes that government can be used in a positive sense to give people in need a boost to get on their feet. Who really isn't a Socialist as his haters say he is who believes government can do practically everything for everybody if government were just allowed to consume most of our money and spend it on our behalf. President Obama is more of a Jack Kennedy Progressive, than a George McGovern Democratic Socialist.

Versus a Republican in in Mitt Romney, who 10-15 years ago would have probably fit in pretty well with the Democratic Party. Sort of like Joe Lieberman. But today is running as more of a neoconservative hawk on national security and foreign policy and a George W. Bush supply sider on economic policy. Who believes you cut taxes and regulations for the top and that somehow will benefit everyone else as well.