The 1980s are often labelled as a decade of excess. The growth of cable TV coupled with deregulation of the Reagan administration led to a mass media explosion, the malaise of the 1970s gave way to a "live for the moment" nihilism, and Wall Street was humming along like Black Monday would never happen.
The latter became the setting for the Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen-led
Wall Street, in which the legendary broker Gordon Gekko coins the phrase "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." With a film set so absolutely not just in New York City but within the financial district, the Trade Center would have to feature prominently. Director Oliver Stone doesn't waste any time, opening the film with a series of shots circling the towers as the new day breaks. Among them is a gorgeous helicopter shot, capturing a rare close-up of the tops of the towers as the sun rises behind them.
