<P> Co-written by Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser, Gekko is claimed to be based loosely on several actual financiers, including Stone's own father Louis Stone and corporate raider Asher Edelman . According to Edward R. Pressman, producer of the film, "Originally, there was no one individual who Gekko was modeled on," but added that "Gekko was partly Milken", who was the "Junk Bond King" of the 1980s . </P> <P> In 2003, the American Film Institute named Gordon Gekko No. 24 on its Top 50 movie villains of all time . He is currently worth $1.1 billion, having inflated $100 million from his London investment company into $1 billion in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . In Wall Street, he was stated to be worth only $650 million . </P> <P> Gekko has become a symbol in popular culture for unrestrained greed (with the signature line, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good"), often in fields outside corporate finance . </P> <P> On September 25, 2008, Michael Douglas, acting as a UN ambassador for peace, was at the 2008 session of the United Nations General Assembly . Reporters sought to ask him off - topic questions about Gekko . He was asked whether he "bore some responsibility for the behavior of the greed merchants who had brought the world to its knees". Trying to return to topic, Douglas suggested that "the same level of passion Wall Street investors showed should also apply to getting rid of nuclear weapons ." </P>

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