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In addition, images of Wall Street and its figures have loomed large.
The 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street created the iconic figure of Gordon Gekko who used the phrase " greed is good ", which caught on in the cultural parlance.
According to one account, the Gekko character was a " straight lift " from the real world junk-bond dealer Michael Milkin, who later pled guilty to felony charges for violating securities laws.
Stone commented in 2009 how the movie had had an unexpected cultural influence, not causing them to turn away from corporate greed, but causing many young people to choose Wall Street careers because of that movie.
A reporter repeated other lines from the film:
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