Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

MALE GUARD 1:
One silk handkerchief.

One necktie.

One watch.

One ring.

One gold money clip with no money in it.

And one mobile phone.

MALE GUARD 2:
Fifty cents a day,

minus what you spent inside,

and a train ticket to the Big Apple.

Good luck, Gekko, and don't come back.

JAKE:
You want to know

what the mother of all bubbles was?

It came out of nowhere. By chance.

MALE GUARD 3:
How many you got, Mac?

MALE GUARD 4:
Five.

They called it the Cambrian Explosion.

It happened around 530 million years ago.

MALE GUARD 3:
Open the gate!

And over the next 70, 80 million years,

the rate of evolution accelerated so fast

that we came along.

The human race.

They still can't explain how that happened,

except that it happened.

MAN:
Here he is!

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING)

Daddy!

(WHISTLES)

Some people say it was by chance,

others, design.

But who really knows?

(HOMEPLAYING)

The dimming of the light

makes the picture clearer

It's just an old photograph

There's nothing to hide

When the world was just beginning

I memorized a face so it's not forgotten

I hear the wind whistlin'

Come back anytime

And we'll mix our lives together

Heaven knows

What keeps mankind alive

Connecting

To places we have known

I'm looking for a home

Where the wheels are turning

Home

Why I keep returning

Home

With our bodies touching

Home

And the cameras watching

Home

Will infect whatever you do

We're home

Comes to life from out of the blue

- (JAKE GROANS)

- Stop sleeping.

You mean "wake up."

"Wake up" is positive.

"Stop sleeping" is a negative.

Either way,

it's not my favorite part of the day.

It's the best part of the day.

I feel bad for anybody who feels that way.

It means their day can't get any better.

(WINNIE EX CLAIMS)

You go to bed too late.

You don't sleep enough.

What's going on with you today?

WINNIE:
Did I tell you, or did you forget?

I'm going to Washington for the week.

Yeah. New site, right?

WINNIE:
We're launching in 10 days,

so the whole site's down

starting tomorrow.

What are all those angry liberals

going to do without their daily fix, baby?

You're just as liberal as they are,

Mr. Green Energy.

No, no, no.

The only green is money, honey.

You're so Wall Street, it makes me sick.

- Baby, come here.

- No. What did I ever see in you?

- Come here.

- No.

MARIA ON TV:
My next guest,

Gordon Gekko,

was one of the biggest names

on Wall Street in the '80s

before he went to prison

for insider trading and securities fraud.

He's out with a new book,

and it is a shocker, believe me.

It is called Is Greed Good?

The man himself is here with us.

Gordon, good to have you on the program.

GORDON:
Thank you, Maria.

It's nice to be out.

- Turn it off.

- One sec.

And I must tell you,

your show is a big, big hit in the can.

(STAMMERS) Oh. You watched it in prison?

Your show?

Me and a whole lot of others.

MARIA:
You wrote the book in prison?

GORDON:
I did. I outlined my drafts...

(REMOTE CLATTERING)

I'm taking a shower.

(LIFE IS LONG PLAYING)

Everybody says that the living is easy

I can barely see

'Cause my head's in the way

Tigers walk behind me

They are to remind me that

I'm lost, but I'm not afraid

Soul to soul

A kiss and a sigh

Sawed in half...

See you next week.

Good luck in Washington.

People on the outside

I remember sweet times

This old rose is always in bloom

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

- Hello?

- DR. MASTERS:
Jacob.

Dr. Masters.

Good morning, sir.

Don't you get any sleep?

Jacob, it happened.

As close as we've come to burn yet.

JAKE:
Really? How many lasers?

We fired 72 this morning,

and we're going to go for 96 next week.

That's fantastic.

That's a game changer, Doc.

So let me guess, it means we're pushing

the pace, right? You need more money?

Well, it'd be good

if we could get another $100 million.

We could pick up

maybe six months on our schedule.

JAKE:
A hundred million dollars?

As long as the price of oil stays high,

we'll get the money.

That would be nice. That would be nice.

Because The Foundation says that they're

having some problems in the markets...

You don't worry about that, though,

okay, Doc?

You just keep building

that baby star, okay?

(LAUGHS) Okay. Thank you, Jacob.

Thank you.

All right, I'll talk to you soon.

Now I can say

Those three little words

And everyday I'm dreaming a world

Life is long

If you give it way

So stay, don't go

'Cause I'm fading away

Soul to soul

Between you and me

Chain me down

But I am still free

STAN:
Hydra Offshore.

Let me repeat this again.

A huge deep-sea exploration play

off the coast of Equatorial Guinea.

That's an oil field

that's barely been touched.

Remember, the stock's trading

roughly 31% off the 52-week high

and it's part owned and funded

by none other than, guess who.

Churchill Schwartz.

So we know they won't let

anything too bad happen here.

My suggestion is that we get aggressive.

- Agreed?

- MAN:
Yeah.

We all agree?

Ed, what do you think?

I don't agree. Maybe it's just me.

Equatorial Guinea's

a pretty tough dictatorship.

This guy's already nationalized

the gold and diamond mines.

So what's your point?

I just don't think it's a risk our desk

should be taking right now, that's all.

I'd wait.

- Wait? Wait for what?

- Yeah.

Your "Beam me up, Scottie"

hydrogen fusion deal?

Now you're talking about something else.

It's United Fusion Corporation, Stan.

Come on. It's apples and oranges.

- Oh, really?

- Yeah.

You mean the deal that we already sank

$50 million into, Mr. Brainiac?

Alternative energy

is what biotech was 15 years ago, Stan.

Come on. You were young once.

You know that.

Profits aren't quarterly.

The runs could be huge.

We'll all be dead by the time

your nutty professor makes us any money.

Right, this coming from the guy

who said Google was a bubble.

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

Anyway. Hydra Offshore.

It's priced right for us to make

three to five times on our money.

And better yet, what we all love the most.

Big year-end bonuses.

(BELL RINGING)

MAN:
Let's go! Let's go!

Let's make some dough!

What's up? You good?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I can't! It's not up to me.

Maybe I can do it, maybe I can't do it.

People are telling me something.

Jesus! Harry, you gave me your word.

You know I know!

You okay, Lou?

(GRUNTS)

Good day, I'm okay. Bad day, I'm okay.

What's the difference?

Do me a favor.

Don't ask me dumb questions.

JAKE:
You wanted to see me?

Steve, stay on top of Harry, okay?

- He's driving me crazy.

- STEVE:
You got it, boss.

Follow me.

(GASPS)

Why?

That's some "Thank you."

What do you want, a kiss, too?

I thought maybe the news out of London

would've wrecked the mood.

London? Don't tell me London.

I take a look at their sheets. They tell me

they got a $125 million profit, right?

I look at the same lousy spread,

to me it looks like

a buck and a quarter loss.

Then they tell me, "Don't worry about it.

We're making money on the losses."

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