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** And fans of ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' might be surprised to see Artie as a corporate lawyer.
* [[Snicket Warning Label]]: Inverted in ''Money Never Sleeps''. If you turn off the film about five minutes before the end credits roll, it's a [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Gordon Gekko reminds us all why he's a quintessential [[Magnificent Bastard]] by winning the Financial Crisis of 2008, and everyone else gets screwed over, whether they deserve to or not}}. Keep watching the last five minutes, however, and for no adequately explained reason everything resolves itself into a perfectly happy ending for everyone involved. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] <ref>that's why it's on this page rather than the main one</ref>
* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: Transport the venue from video games to high finance and you have a ''perfect'' analysis of Gordon Gekko.
** Elaborated on in the sequel, in a way. In a speech, Gekko clarifies the point made in his famous earlier speech. It amounts to a gentle denunciation of [[Stupid Evil|stupid greed.]] The villain of the film could've been any one of Gekko's many young acolytes who didn't understand that crucial distinction. [[Fridge Brilliance|This may be why]], in his famous first speech, he says "Greed, ''for lack of a better word,'' is good."
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: Debatably. Gordon's "Greed is Good" speech arguably counts as having a point, but he doesn't really fit the strawman aspect, as the film's creators denied that they intended an [[Author Tract]] against capitalism. Kind of complicating things, is that as noted above, Gordon's actions weren't actually criminal at the time the film was set (although they were by the time it was made), although they could still be considered unethical. All in all, Gekko was definitely not intended to be a positive character, but it does not make his business ideas and practices reprehensible per se.
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