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===Screenplay=== Weiser wrote the first draft, initially called ''Greed'', with Stone writing another draft. Originally, Charlie Sheen's character was a young Jewish broker named Freddie Goldsmith, but Stone changed the name to Bud Fox to avoid the stereotype that Wall Street was controlled by Jews.<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> Reportedly, Gordon Gekko is said to be a composite of several people: Wall Street broker Owen Morrisey, an old friend of Stone's<ref>{{cite book |last=Lavington |first=Stephen |title=Virgin Film: Oliver Stone |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uf6jNxx0ppMC&pg=PT145 |year=2011 |publisher=Ebury |isbn=978-0-7535-4766-3 |page=145}}</ref> who was involved in a $20 million insider trading scandal in 1985, [[Dennis Levine]], [[Ivan Boesky]],<ref name="Crowdus 1987">{{cite magazine |last=Crowdus |first=Gary |title=Personal Struggles and Political Issues: An Interview with Oliver Stone |magazine=Cinéaste |date=1988 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=18–21 |issn=0009-7004 |jstor=41687728 |url=http://www.cineaste.com/articles/stone-interview.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226194916/http://www.cineaste.com/articles/stone-interview.pdf |archive-date=February 26, 2008}}</ref> corporate raider [[Carl Icahn]], investor and art collector [[Asher Edelman]], agent [[Michael Ovitz]], and Stone himself.<ref name="Weiser 2008"/> For example, Stone told ''Newsweek'' that the "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good" line was based on a speech by Boesky where he said, "Greed is right".<ref name="Sigesmund 2002">{{cite news |last=Sigesmund |first=B. J. |title=The Return of Greed |work=Newsweek |date=19 July 2002 |url=http://www.newsweek.com/2002/07/18/the-return-of-greed.html |archive-date=11 Sep 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911083224/http://www.newsweek.com/2002/07/18/the-return-of-greed.html |url-status=unfit}}</ref> According to [[Edward R. Pressman]], producer of the film, "Originally, there was no one individual who Gekko was modeled on", he adds, "But Gekko was partly [[Michael Milken|Milken]]". Also, Pressman has said that the character of Sir Larry Wildman was modeled on [[James Goldsmith]], the Anglo-French billionaire and corporate-raider.<ref name="Goodley 2008">{{cite news |last=Goodley |first=Simon |title=Brace Yourself, Gekko is Back |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=October 27, 2008 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/2814749/Brace-yourself-Gekko-is-back.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/2814749/Brace-yourself-Gekko-is-back.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=January 3, 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref> According to Weiser, Gekko's style of speaking was inspired by Stone. "When I was writing some of the dialogue I would listen to Oliver on the phone and sometimes he talks very rapid-fire, the way Gordon Gekko does".<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> Stone cites as influences on his approach to business, the novels of [[Upton Sinclair]], [[Sinclair Lewis]] and [[Victor Hugo]], and the films of [[Paddy Chayefsky]] because they were able to make a complicated subject clear to the audience.<ref name="Scott 1987a">{{cite news |last=Scott |first=Jay |title=Stone Gets Down to Business on ''Wall Street'' |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=December 4, 1987}}</ref> Stone set the film in 1985 because insider trading scandals culminated in 1985 and 1986.<ref name="Scott 1987a"/> This led to anachronisms in the script, including a reference to the [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster]], which had not yet occurred.
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