Abstract
There is a scene in the film Boiler Room (2000) in which the central characters are watching a scene from the 1987 film Wall Street. The character of Gordon Gekko is introduced in this scene. They are shown reciting the dialogue along with the characters on the screen. This explicit intertextual reference means that there is something about the scene in Wall Street that is relevant to Boiler Room. The scene in Wall Street is also relevant to the culture of financial markets. Gordon Gekko is a representation of a recurrent American archetype that is attractive not only to the characters in Boiler Room but also to participants in real financial markets. This archetype not only drives the plots of films, but also affects the performance of real financial markets in which manipulation is a well-publicised occurrence.
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