The cold-hearted capitalist
Money has no soul.
Dinner at Eight (1933)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Force of Evil (1948)
I Walk Alone (1948)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Executive Suite (1954)
Atlantic City (1980)
Aliens (1986)
Wall Street (1987)
Other People’s Money (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Titanic (1997)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Sabrina (1954).
The Tall T (1957)
I would add to these all three of the Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns:
A Fist Full Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Posted by: Dan | October 13, 2003 at 10:13 AM
_Other People's Money_ had a pro-capitalist aspect in that the villain, Danny DeVito's corporate raider, got decent lines. His speech before the workers made a reasonable practical case for the possibility that closing the factory was the right course of action for them and their families. I'm talking about the "buggy whips" speech. That speech was based in a healthy understanding of reality and economics. Lines like "The easiest way to go broke is to have an increasing share of a decreasing market." and "I'll bet that last company made the best darned buggy whips you ever saw." Sure, he was the villain. But he was treated sympathetically. You got the sense that there might actually be another side to the argument, as opposed to the pure good-versus-evil setup one finds in movies like _Erin Brockovich_ or _China Syndrome_.
Posted by: Glen Raphael | October 14, 2003 at 04:53 PM
Consider another Clint Eastwood western, Pale Rider, in which the anonymous gunfighter takes out a gold-mining company that's crowding out a lot of individual miners.
Posted by: Crawford Kilian | January 02, 2004 at 09:39 PM
I would refer you to "The Betsy," an overindulgent Tommy Lee Jones vehicle about the familial power struggles within a fictitious auto company:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077228/
Posted by: Brian Dean Abramson | February 04, 2004 at 11:14 PM
How did Sabrina make the list of movies that portray a “cold-hearted capitalist”?
The speech the Linus gave to Dennis on how business creates products that better the lives of working people pretty much obliterated that stereotype.
Posted by: Thorley Winston | March 02, 2005 at 02:17 PM
You are missing the based-on-real-life, 80's exuberance, "Barbarians at the gate".
Posted by: Percy | August 18, 2005 at 09:02 AM
How about "King Rat"?
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