The Thin Place #44: Two Views of Wall Street
The Thin Place
English - May 31, 2015 21:25 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBTV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ken and Todd talk about depictions of Wall Street in Oliver Stone’s film of the same name and, more recently, in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. What does Stone’s dedication tell us about which character is the moral center? Does Bud Fox look into the abyss or dive in head first? How does Jordan Belfort compare to Gordon Gekko, and how does that comparison reveal ways America has changed in the last three decades?