Scene 4 Flashcards
-magical music
-* twinkle of gold. And then another of silver somewhere else.*
-* a Music cacophany of the trading floor*
-the chaos the physicality, the aggression and shouting of a trading floor
-It shows the appearance verse reality
-On stage you would’ve been an angelic scenery
-Drawing audience into the fantasy and temptation that skill victims felt to
-However we find that skilling imagination is unrealistic
-It mirrors Fs flawed optimism
-similar to fastest as what people find beautiful he doesn’t
“ “ for pleasant fruits and princely delights “ - fs
- necromantic books are heavenly” - subversion of what other people think is satanic he thinks it’s heavenly
traders
No individuality
-it makes it so these people could be anyone in the audience and not specific people
“One of skillings death weekends “ - traders
“ he says ‘ only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win’”
- he encourages reckless risk taking behaviour
-link to f as they both think they’re infallible
“ tonight I conjure though I die therefore”
suddenly fastow enters, all smooth self importance
-“don’t tell me what i got to do- fastow
-it shows fastow going up in the world
-Power is going to his head showing the corruptive capabilities of power
“ you’ve drunk the cool aid “
-A reference to a cult in the 70s a mass suicide
-It shows his influence on people
-Those are the top at immorally and then so do people at the bottom
-Immorality passes down
-It’s like a moral v sho acuum
-It’s a link to Fs our customer really do that because he has done necromancy he has now been copied by Robin and Dick
“ closest thing there is to hunting, closest thing there is sex”
-it shows the savage dog eat dog world
-this business has returned these people to their primal instincts taken from human rationality
“ COME ON”
*trader 1 is delighted sweating, filled with testosterone and joy”
fastow who squares right up to him, fearless
-it shows the addictive drug like qualities of business
-It’s almost like a children’s playground
-A testosterone field competitive environment
-Highlighting the macho culture of the corporation
-(ALAN Greenspan)
“Irrational exuberance”
-irrational exuberance is a phrased used by the then-federal reserve board chairman, Alan Greenspan,
-In a speech given at the American enterprise Institute during the.com bubble of the 1990s
-The phrase was interpreted as a warning that the market might be overvalued
-It had become a catchphrase, to such an extent that, during the economic recession that followed the stock market collapse of 2000
-Bumper stickers reading” I want to be irrationally exuberant again” we’re cited in Silicon Valley and elsewhere
