Saturday, July 31, 2010
Oliver Stone Irony
For his 1987 film Wall Street, Oliver Stone originally wrote the lead character as Freddie Goldsmith, a young Jewish broker corrupted by the rapacious culture of finance. He later changed it to Bud Fox, the son of an airplane mechanic, to avoid promoting the idea that Jews control the financial world.
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If Charlie Sheen was set to play "Freddie Goldsmith", it still would have sucked.
Kinda like the episode with the retarded rapper on "It's always sunny in Philadelphia."
Of course the retarded rapper was white - making him black wouldn't have been very PC.
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