New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Director Oliver Stone's 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps saw him return to one of the most memorable characters he'd created: the ruthless, glib corporate raider Gordon Gekko from the 1987 film Wall Street. After serving time for insider trading. Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, is supposedly reformed. But soon, he's saying things like, "I tell you, the government's worse than a wife. They got all the power, they got half the money. Now they're working on getting the other half."

The American right-wingers of today lionize Gekko unironically, completely ignoring the fact that he was written as a cautionary figure. This is not a phenomenon restricted to the social media era. Popular movies have always been u...