'Wall Street' then and now: 1987 vs. 2010
"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" takes its title from a scene in the original movie. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) walks along the beach at dawn and calls Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Gekko tells Fox, "Money never sleeps, pal. I just made $800,000 in Hong Kong gold. It's been wired to you. Play with it."
The cell phone in Gekko's hand takes up nearly the entire screen. Not exactly the flip phones of today. And with that, we look at just how much life has changed from 1987 until now.
| New York Giants | New Orleans Saints | |
| Minnesota Twins | New York Yankees | |
| Los Angeles Lakers | Los Angeles Lakers | |
| Around 2,000 | Around 10,500 | |
| "Black Monday" Dow drops 507.99 in biggest crash ever on Oct. 19 | 9.6 percent unemployment rate | |
| "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel | "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga | |
| $0.89 | $2.73 | |
| Timothy Dalton | Daniel Craig | |
| TV show canceled | Movie bombs at box office | |
| "21 Jump Street" premieres | "Alice in Wonderland" earns $334 million | |
| $0.24 | $0.44 | |
| $3.91 | $7.95 | |
| Vacation spot | Reality TV show | |
| Diandra Douglas | Catherine Zeta-Jones | |
| Fictional airline company | Real private jet company | |
| $0.62 | $1.00 | |
| Her "Dirty Dancing" was No. 11 at the box office with $65 million | Contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" | |
| "Three Men and a Baby" $168 million | "Toy Story 3" $410 million | |
| Nokia introduces one of the world's first handheld phones, the Mobira Cityman 900 | Cell phones shoot photos and video, can play games against other users and listen to music. | |
| Iran-Contra hearings | Wars in Middle East | |
| Dennis Miller | Seth Meyers | |
| “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Ronald Reagan | Barack Obama withdraws combat troops from Iraq |
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