In 1987 director Oliver Stone created Wall Street, a film that critiques the mindset of many high-stake players in the financial world: players who embrace a value system that places profits and wealth, “doing the deal,” and winning above all other considerations. In 2010 Stone released Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which further develops and updates his indictment of self-centered, predatory trading practices that can take the entire world to the brink of a complete economic meltdown. According to the passage, the second film focuses on