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LocoHero — 11 years ago(April 03, 2015 02:59 AM)

What was the point of his little speech about the sunrise?
Was he being bombastic and fake?
Or did it show a moment of clarity and humanity that nature is more valuable than art ie false value.
Or was it just a nice sunrise.

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Gekko uses wealth to shield his massive insecurities.

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It showed that there was a side of Gekko that was indeed capable of appreciating things that are not of the material world. It made me wonder what made him into such a cutthroat sociopath. He does collect art; maybe deep down he really always felt that he should have been an artistan appreciator of transcendent beautybut mommy/daddy or some other environmental factors made him into Gekko the Great. The scene is a good example of ambiguous character development using an economy of words, and affront to the detractors of Oliver Stone who claim that he's incapable of subtlety.

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It was to point out that he had an awesome beach house with a great view of the sunrise.

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A hardly remarkable one. The DP really screwed up there.

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According to Oliver Stone that scene was actually shot at sunset!
Was it a millionaire who said "Imagine no possessions"?

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It was to show off the massive cell phone

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