Ever wonder why they never made a movie about Jesse Livermore?

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Few people care. Only traders know Jesse.
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Ain't it funny? Just about everyone nowadays invests in their 401k and yet not many know the existence of one of the greatest traders of all times.
 
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Exactly. As for the world of finance not having wide appeal, Wall Street was big in 1987, and we'll see how the sequal does soon enough. Further, after the bubbles we've had in recent memory, I think a true story of a different time would capture the imagination. There may not have been much in the way of physical action in his tale, but there was no lack of drama.
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It gained traction only because of the October crash in 1987. I think most of the audiences came with the preconceived notion that Wall Street was rigged and they were thieves robbing Main Street. Well, guess what? That turned out to be true 20 years later.
 
I found this:

The Day the Bubble Burst

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082238/

"A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur."

Blanche Baker ... Jolan Slezsak
Franklin Cover ... Herbert Hoover
Richard Crenna ... Jesse Livermore
Dana Elcar ... Mr. Block
Robert Hays ... Gregory Winslow
Audra Lindley ... Evangeline Adams
Bill Macy ... Mr. Goldberger
Rue McClanahan ... Barbara Arvey
Caroline McWilliams ... Dorothy Livermore
Donna Pescow ... Gloria Block
Laurette Spang ... Frances Pierce
David Ogden Stiers ... William Crapo Durant
Robert Vaughn ... Richard Whitney
 
I haven't read the book, but from what I've heard, I don't find Jesse Livermore to be a very compelling character at all. Was there anything interesting about him? Quirky? Did he think differently?

I wouldn't want to see a movie about Donald Trump either.
 
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Real life drama is not dramatic enough. Good only for A&E or something.

No movie on Buffett, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs either.

The story needs to sell. They need to have sex, they need to have love, they need to have conflicts, they need to have fights, they need to have conspiracies.

Look at the book "Brining Down The House". They turned in into a movie "21" starring Kevin Spacey. They need to add "love" to the members to make the story more attractive. (Not in the book.)
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Buffet and Bill Gates movies would definitely be major bores. Steve Jobs would be more interesting, but still boring. Jesse Livermore's life would make a great and interesting movie if done well - excitement, suspense, rags-to-riches, riches-to-rags, love, and sex. What more do you need.

Watching Buffet drink cokes while reading annual reports would get old fast.
 
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Ever wonder why they never made a movie about Jesse Livermore?
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No, not particularly.

Shouldn't you have made this a Gabby poll?
 
I dont even think he existed,:D In the movie they talk about "there were no regulations controlling the insider!! WTF, nothing has changed in 100 years dont you think?
 
The suicide thing might be a little awkward. You could always get Mel Gibson to direct it though, so the reality gets glazed over/heavily distorted.

(Jesse puts the gun barrel in his mouth, and in a muffled voice says:) "Goddamnit, I should've never bought shares of General Motors! They're worthless...all my shares are worthless! I'm going to kill myself now...wait, what's that?" (Jesses peers out of the window of his NYC penthouse and lays his eyes upon a small, 16th century Spanish flotilla that is now floating on the Hudson. Then a coconut falls on his head.)

THE END
 
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Buffet and Bill Gates movies would definitely be major bores. Steve Jobs would be more interesting, but still boring. Jesse Livermore's life would make a great and interesting movie if done well - excitement, suspense, rags-to-riches, riches-to-rags, love, and sex. What more do you need.

Watching Buffet drink cokes while reading annual reports would get old fast.
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Actually there was a movie made about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates called "The Pirates of Silicon Valley". It was actually pretty good. It tells the story of how Steve Jobs started Apple and his relationship with Bill Gates. Check it out.
 
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Whatever you may think of him, his biography would make a good movie. I'm reading Reminiscenses for the fourth time now (first time was in the mid '90s), and I'm surprised Hollywood has yet to discover him.



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Nice clip. I didn't know Jesse dated Michelle Pfeiffer. lol
 
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