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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Learn new money vocabulary and business English.

Date: Nov 10 2010

Themes: Work

Grammar: Modal Verbs

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Is greed ever good? According to Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas’s character in the new movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, it is. The film is a sequel to the 1980s hit Wall Street, which captured the glitzy, fast-paced world of the New York Stock Exchange and inspired quite a few viewers to put on pinstripe suits, start smoking cigars, and become stock brokers.

In the new movie, Gordon Gekko has just been released from prison and seems to want to reform himself. But can he really be trusted? Find out what Amy and Ella think.

Dialog

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Amy

Amy

Ella

Ella

Amy:  I don’t really understand what happens at the stock market.

Ella:  Yeah, it’s baffling to me too. I don’t know much.

Amy:  It seems like the traders and other people who work there don’t really understand it sometimes either, since we’ve, you know, had so many problems lately.

Ella:  Yeah, looks like it’s just gambling basically, just not as…you know, a little classier version than the casinos.

Amy:  Do you think that the stock market can make for good movie drama? I mean, are you interested in seeing this movie with Michael Douglas, the Wall Street sequel?

Ella:  I don’t know. I’ve been to Wall Street, visited NASDAQ and stuff. There was just no interest at all for me there. Unless there’s murder, maybe.

Amy:  Yeah. Maybe there’s murder. I don’t know too much about the film. But I think the crime in it is more like white collar crime.

Ella:  That is interesting. You don’t hear about those too often.

Amy:  Yeah, I know the first movie in the 80s was a big hit, you know, it kind of put a spotlight on this culture of these traders who were just wheelin and dealin, you know, living life in the fast lane. And it’s interesting now, you know, we might have kind of a different perspective on it. It might not seem quite so glamorous.

 

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Discussion

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Neither Amy nor Ella seems to know much about the stock market. But Ella thinks that whatever goes on there, it isn’t very interesting. She visited Wall Street when she was in New York, and she found it pretty boring. She thinks a movie about stock brokers could be OK, especially if murder is somehow involved.

Amy thinks that times have changed since the first Wall Street movie came out in the 1980s. We know more now about white collar crime and have less faith in our financial institutions. These days, stock brokers are more likely to be mistrusted than glamorized.

Do you like to live life in the fast lane? Do you think it’s a good idea to invest money in the stock market?

 

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gorci

gorci

Serbia and Montenegro

If I have a lot of money I would play with stock market, and than I am sure that if I have luck, I make a lot of money.

 

10:17 AM Nov 10 2010 |

oddysee

oddyseeSuper Member!

Germany

Yes, Koxa.  I think like you.Cool

09:06 AM Nov 10 2010 |

superboy.qiang

China

i don't like to live life in the fast lane.it doesn't give me some times to enjoy the life.i think if you have balance you can invest money in the stock market.certainly,don't invest too much.i like it.

08:58 AM Nov 10 2010 |

mitty0967

mitty0967

United Kingdom

It's a digital world mankind created. It's complicated but attractive. People have a dream to get huge money, but I think it is one of our greed, wealthy.

08:56 AM Nov 10 2010 |

Oscar73

Oscar73

Israel

money never sleeps, is it true?
thats right , if u dont watch it , it could be lost…. in todays stock market , u must be the keeper.

07:34 AM Nov 10 2010 |

dearpesar

dearpesar

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

in fact i like country side life but investing in stock market is not a bad ideaLaughing

06:38 AM Nov 10 2010 |

koxa

koxa

Ukraine

Living in the fast lane means to be always aware of everything new, cutting-edge technologies, up-and-coming persons etc….that's very interesting as well as useful in all the ways of development personality so I prefer this conception. Stock market it's a serious, risky business and needs a lot of work, efforts and luck)....  

06:05 AM Nov 10 2010 |

gyltby

gyltby

China

Yes, stock market is full of risk, but very interesting.

Remember: Anyone swimming in this lack does so at his own risk. So, don't rush headlong into danger, think if through carefully before you make any decisions.

And I will say money never sleeps. But anyone needs a good sleep after leaving the stock market for home in order to long for new day to go stock market…...

is it boring or interesting?

06:01 AM Nov 10 2010 |

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omiwon

China

these guys never stop thinking, trading, to make money. some of them may have conscience to "save the world" in economy

03:44 AM Nov 10 2010 |

harchin

Mongolia

 money never sleeps, is it true?

01:11 AM Nov 10 2010 |

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