会計士に関係のあるテーマを扱った5本の名作映画を紹介した記事。
In anticipation of the Academy Awards, here are some movies with important themes for accountants.
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All the President’s Men (1976)
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Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) famously “follow the money” in their investigation of a break-in at the Watergate office complex, discovering a conspiracy that ultimately brings down Richard Nixon’s presidency.
Schindler’s List (1993)
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This heart-rending motion picture, based on a book by Thomas Keneally, focuses on German businessman Oskar Schindler (played by Liam Neeson) and his accountant Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley). Together they devise a plan to save 1,200 Polish Jews from being sent to Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
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This film, based on a Stephen King novella, focuses on banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sent to a brutal prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He finds that providing financial advice to the guards and the warden—including being forced to devise a money laundering scheme—awards him a measure of protection from some of the most violent inmates.
The Untouchables (1987)
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While Ness was unable to arrest Capone on murder, bootlegging, and racketeering charges, he worked closely with veteran police officer Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery) and Treasury agent and accountant Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith), to nail Capone on tax evasion.
Wall Street (1987)
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Fox is enamored of merciless corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who leads him into a cesspool of illegal activities such as insider trading and securities fraud.
(DVDはいろいろな版があるようですので、ご注意ください。)
これの映画も公開されるようです。
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