Bob Ellis’ Rough Cut
Bob Ellis on Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps, The Reluctant Infidel, Arthur Penn, Tony Curtis and Elizabeth Taylor.
Oliver Stone has twice altered American history, with Platoon and Wall Street, films that made possible the anti-Afghan war campaigns and the anti-CEO mood in small-town America today. A third film, W, lost Bush the Second those few fans he had left. And Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps bids fair to change, or nudge, history too.
A Shakespearian plot, an oedipal theme and a dark-hearted mood like the early Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayevsky or Larry Kushner pervade it. Lots of computer-Meltdown graphics and a ghost or two kick it along. Hamlet, Pericles, Coriolanus, Antigone and All My Sons infect its premises and reckonings. An adult, numerate, onrushing American classic is the result.
