The idea is to make the place seem cold and soulless, but the frigid tones don’t really track with the handheld camera and the feverish jabber. Marlin-the boiler room-are shot in a weird, blue-and-white palette they look as if they’ve been processed in Clorox. “Nobody wants to work for it anymore,” says his protagonist, irrefutably. Younger is banking on the audience’s stinging awareness of how many people in this market are making unfathomable amounts of money and spending it boisterously.
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That’s certainly the way to get under the skin of this longtime free-lance Microsoft scribe, but I’ll bet most people will feel a stab of envy when they hear of groundskeepers posing beside their Ferraris. “Everyone is looking for the quick killing,” says Seth, who opens the film by informing us that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretaries than any company on earth: staffers who took stock options in lieu of bonuses. They’ve been assured that if they go balls-out making cold calls to gullible investors that before they’re 30 they’ll own Ferraris and mansions and more toys than they can use. How he or anyone else could go 10 minutes without figuring that out is the movie’s most fantastic notion, but Younger’s point is that these kids don’t want to know. Seth has begun to realize that this non-Wall Street brokerage, J.T. **for you BH gurus and mentors, this can already be a good manifesto if you just replace some words like "become a member a member of this firm" into "become a blackhatter".The movie’s protagonist, 19-year-old Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), is among them, but he’s not whooping: He looks dopey, glassy-eyed. But if you really want it, then give me a call on Monday and we'll talk. If you decide it isn't, nothing to be embarrassed about. Now go home and think about whether this is for you. You know what I built? The fucking twin towers. Right? Gotta build the foundation before you can put up your skyscraper. Think of it as the foundation to a building. As a trainee you will be building a foundation for yourself. Fuck them! Fuck 'em! Your parents don't like the life you lead? Fuck you Mom and Dad! See how it feels when you're making their fucking Lexus payments. You're gonna tell them you made twenty-five thousand last month and they're not going to believe you.
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Once you pass the Series Seven none of it will matter. You need to learn the business and this is the time to do it. And it's true, a hundred and fifty a week is not a lot of money, but pay no mind. The other brokers, your parents, whoever: they're gonna give you shit about it. After you open forty accounts you begin working for yourself and then. When you pass, you become a junior broker and you'll be opening accounts for your team leader. After you're done training, you take the Series Seven test. you make one hundred and fifty dollars a week. Your first six months at the firm are as a trainee. You want vacation time? Go teach third grade public school. See, people work here to become filthy rich. A piker asks how much vacation time he gets in the first year. A piker is someone who walks at the bell. So now that you know what's possible,let me tell you what's required. You wanna hear details? I drive a Ferrari 355 cabriolet.I have a ridiculous house on the South Fork. Now you all look money hungry and that's good.Anybody who says money is the root of all evil, doesn't have it! Money can't buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face. You're the future Big-Swinging-Dicks of this firm. Lucky for me, I am very fucking good at my job or I'd be out of one. This firm is entirely comprised of people your age, not mine.
You know what that makes me here? A fucking senior citizen.
It's a weird thing to hear, right? I'll tell you, it's a weird thing to say. Everybody got that? There is no question as to whether you will be a millionaire working at this firm, the question is how many times over. You will make a million dollars within three years of your first day of employment at JT Marlin. You become an employee of this firm and you will make your first million within three years. I am not here to waste your time and I can only hope
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