Analyzing Evil: Gordon Gekko From Wall Street

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Welcome everyone and welcome to the seventy-fourth episode of Analyzing Evil! Our feature villain for this video is Gordon Gekko from the Wall Street series. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!
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@juliahenriques210 2 жыл бұрын

"Causing thousands of people to lose their jobs without them ever having a say in the matter is abhorrent." This. That's the spirit. Keep going.

@nm7358 2 жыл бұрын

Your analysis of Gekko is spot-on. I'll add that Gekko was so deep in his own short-term greed that he never even contemplated the idea that liquidating Bluestar could be a tremendous miscalculation. Anyone with two cells in their brain and any sense of their own self-interest would have foresaw that destroying Bluestar would have led Bud to turn against them. It was the one company which he had a vested emotional interest in because his father worked there. Instead he could have left operational control of Bluestar to Bud as its CEO, with himself silently holding the majority of the shares, and reap the rewards while keeping Bud eternally grateful. Gekko could have owned Bud Fox forever, but instead pushed him into destroying him.

@josefk7437 2 жыл бұрын

Gordon Gekko accidentally inspired the over-gelled slicked back hair and some 1980s fashion. People emulated characters that were never meant to be emulated. Michael Douglas never intended for Gekko to ever be respected or admired.

@benwasserman8223 2 жыл бұрын

“Greed, for lack of better word, is good.” Yes that sums up much of 80s economic pop culture quite nicely.

@aeric_ 2 жыл бұрын

oh please do Falling Down. It took me seeing Michael Douglas here his amazing performance in that.. a very different look at Evil even when the villain doesn't even realize that "he's the bad guy"

@JoePesciBallsack 2 жыл бұрын

Seeing as you've covered Gekko, I'd love to see you cover Jordan Belfort from Wolf of Wall Street. Not as depraved as some other villains you've covered, but he still possesses that same extreme self-serving ego that Gekko does.

@noahmclaughlin7921 2 жыл бұрын

Please do Ramses from the Prince of Egypt some time. His story is so tragic and heartbreaking, while never trying to excuse the heinous actions he commits. And his slow downfall is both devastating, and dramatically ironic. And his dynamic with Moses is amazing. You feel bad for him while still understand that he’s in the wrong. 10/10 character.

@kimberlyoldschool 2 жыл бұрын

Great description of callousness, which is a key component of psychopathy. Many psychopaths, especially high IQ ones from stable backgrounds, go through life seemingly easily - until someone or something gets in their way. At that point, it doesn’t matter to them how much someone else will need to be hurt, as long as the psychopath gets their way.

@robrick9361

I thought Gekko having a change of heart in the sequel was BS and ruined the character.

@TheTallMan50 Жыл бұрын

There's a reason why greed is on the 'seven deadly sins' list and ambition isn't. You explained this quite well. 👍

@BC-lo6rf 2 жыл бұрын

The Vile Eye is consistently excellent.

@owenatkinson5744

What makes Gecko so compelling to me is that he is completely honest with himself about what he is. He knows and admits that he adds no value to the world; all he does is make other people's lives harder by selling something for much more than he paid for it, and like any conman he takes pleasure in this fact. In the words of Lazlo from GTA V: "Have you seen my show? It's not funny; it's not original. That's my genius: I got no talent!"

@chrischeckerslara3441 2 жыл бұрын

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@fox-jake8784 2 жыл бұрын

Michael Douglas is a great actor who can play both convincing good guys and bad guys. Both Gordon Gekko and William Foster from "Falling Down" prove that.

@peterdavisau 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is a gift that keeps on giving! Thank you for covering some of my favourite characters of all time. In the future, I’d love to see you analyse Wilson Fisk (Marvel’s Daredevil), Tommy Shelby (Peaky Blinders), Frank Underwood (House of Cards), Ernst Stavro Blofeld (007), Grant Ward (Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD), David Xanatos (Gargoyles), Wesley Gibson (Mark Millar’s Wanted), James Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes), Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray) and Tom Riddle (Harry Potter) 🙏

@miserylovesyou7540 2 жыл бұрын

hi i think most everyone here has probably already noticed this but i wanted to say i always think its really cool how you manage to make the last word in your reviews "evil". i always look forward to your creative character descriptions at the end. keep making amazing content :)