Greed and Ethics

Paper Summary:

The paper compares the greed and ethical concerns in the films "Boiler Room", "Three Kings" and "Wall Street". The paper describes in detail the insider trading in "Wall Street", the corrupt soldiers in "Three Kings", and the brokerage firm in "Boiler Room".

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"Greed is a human trait that can be found in many different forms in many different life situations, and greed generally raises ethical issues for those who act out of greed, for those who follow them, and for society at large. In the 1980s, in the film Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987), the super trader character Gordon Gekko observes, "Greed is good." The intent was to show the way the stock manipulators of the time put their own desire for more above all ethical concerns. Other characters in film have done the same thing, and the way greed is portrayed can be shown to differ in the films Boiler Room, Three Kings, and Wall Street. The three films also raise somewhat different ethical concerns as well."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Russell, David O. Three Kings. Warner Bros., 1999.
• Stone, Oliver. Wall Street. Twentieth-Century Fox, 1987.
• Younger, Ben. Boiler Room. New Line Cinema, 2000.

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