Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
Our read · Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime · disaster entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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