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the “The Bank of evil” with a sly
joke that it was formally
known as “Lehman Brothers”. Now, this got me thinking; has there ever been a movie where someone who works in finance is the good guy?
No good bankers in Hollywood?
Now I am not talking
anti-
heroes or those who have a change of heart, like for example Charlie Sheen’s character in “Wall who what
Street”, realizes damage
will be done to others if he became
like
his mentor and
changes
his path; or Richard Gere’s character in “Pretty Woman” who, due to his escapades with Julia Roberts tart with a heart, decides to turn his company into something that gives back, not just be a huge money making machine. I am talking about genuine good guys we can get behind from the start, willing them to succeed against all odds.
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loveable Jimmy Stewart plays the hero of the piece which, at the end of the movie, we all rejoice in his joy as his Building and Loan company is saved. The other is another Christmas classic, “Trading Places” where this time our heroes played by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy turn the tables on the villains, the Duke Brothers, by making a fortune on the futures
The real villain in “Despicable Me” is a banker who runs the “The Bank of evil”
I can think of only two such movies and, even then, the heroes in one of them I have to question.
The first of course is the Christmas classic Wonderful life”.
The
“It’s a ever
market, which in turn make the Brothers bankrupt. Now here is the thing which bothers me about the ending of “Trading Places”. Though like many I love the movie, our heroes make a killing by committing insider
trading, making them crim i n a l s , but we turn a blind eye to it all as they got their own back on those nasty Duke boys.
This leads to another obser vation. The reason why Dan A yk r o yd and Eddie Murphy and, to a lesser extent, Jimmy S t ew a rt s
character in “It’s a Wonderful Life” are heroes, is because the villains are rival more than ruthless businessmen. You can see that too in “Wall Street: Money never sleeps” when the anti-hero Gordon Gekko gets one up on Josh Brolin’s character and we all applaud purely because Brolin’s character is portrayed to be more “evil”.
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