In the history of misunderstood movies, one that stands tall is
Oliver Stone's original
Wall Street. The 1987 film was not even thinly veiled in its contempt of money players like Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas. Yet to this day Stone still meets people on the street who quote Gekko's lines ("Greed...is good") and claim that the movie, and Gekko's character in particular, pushed them into a career