Ben Affleck- Boiler Room Speech Message was encoded to the receiver's understanding Spoke of outcomes, results, MONEY! How to get them what they want! Ben Affleck's speech to the new recruits is very similar to a speech given by Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). Affleck took over Baldwin's The Hunt for Red October (1990) role in The Sum of All Fears (2002), appeared with Baldwin in Pearl Harbor (2001), and played Baldwin on an episode of Saturday Night Live.
A few weeks ago we were having a discussion on Twitter about the greatest finance movies. Here’s the list we came up with:
- The Big Short
- Trading Places
- Wall Street
- Boiler Room
- Margin Call
- The Wolf of Wall Street
Someone then had the bright idea to recommend Michael and I re-watch some of these classics to see how well (or poorly) they aged, discuss how realistic they are/were, and talk about how things have changed in the markets since they came out.
For the first one, we decided to check out Boiler Room, the late-1990s/early-2000s movie about the old school chop shop commission-based brokerage firms who ripped off their clients.
We discuss:
Boiler Room Movie Ben Affleck Speech
- How many millionaires did Microsoft produce in the 1990s?
- Can you believe people used to actually buy stocks from people who cold-called them on the phone?
- Did people really pay $2/share for stock commissions?
- What’s Vin Diesel’s real name?
- Is Ben Affleck’s speech one of his all-time acting performances?
- Would Matt Damon have made this movie much better as the star?
- Why selling is so important in finance.
- Is Boiler Room better than The Wolf of Wall Street?
- How normal people view the finance industry and much more.
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