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Written by April Yorke   
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 00:00

It's a shame that I've never gotten around to seeing Wall Street (in part because I've quasi-given up watching Oliver Stone's movies) because Linda Holmes just pointed me in the direction of a scene that would have fit in perfectly with "Our Hero Will Return to Save the Day in Just Two Minutes", my own paeon to gratuitous sex scenes in 80s movies that could have gone without. To wit:

It's not clear why anyone felt that the character played by Daryl Hannah, a decorator who is so sophisticated and upscale that she covers Bud's walls in what appears to be rubberized brick facade (!), even needed to be in the movie. Perhaps the need for a sex scene performed in silhouette as gauzy blue curtains billow in the background was deemed particularly acute. Hannah does nothing, seems totally confused, and doesn't seem to know whether her character actually cares about Bud or not. 

I mean, silhouette and blue? Damn it, Stone, and your crappy overblown movies that keep me away. If I had known that would happen, I would have at least considered watching Wall Street.

 

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Kevin Johns
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August 11, 2009
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Hey! Watch what you stay about Mr. Stone.

I loved that dude when I was a teenager. Platoon. The Doors. JFK. Nixon. Especially Natural Born Killers and U Turn. I ate that stuff up with a spoon high school!

April, you are clearly not Stone's target audience, i.e. 14 year old males who think they are smart and arty outsiders!

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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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