Corrected entry: When Bud is talking to Carl's co-workers at the airplane hanger they are working on aircraft N455OT. The plane is painted in Bluestar colors. The last 2 letters, OT, signify the aircraft belongs to Avant Airlines. (01:00:25)
Corrected entry: The scene where Gordon is speaking to Bud on his cellular phone at the beach makes no sense. Gordon states that he is watching the sun rise and how beautiful everything is. The problem with that is in New York, the sun would rise over the Atlantic Ocean/eastern sky and the scene shows it coming up over the west not the east.
Correction: I was under the impression that his beach house was out on Long Island. On the north shore of the island the sun would be rising right where it was, over his right shoulder as he faced the water. So unless there was someplace in the movie that states the house is not on the north shore of Long Island, not necessarily a mistake.
When he looks back out over the ocean there is no horizon with land so it's the open ocean which still means it's incorrect.
Corrected entry: When Bud is sitting at the table in the start of the movie, one of his father's friends says "good bye Charlie". They should have said "good bye - Bud, or Carl". Charlie is the name of Charlie Sheen.
Correction: "Bud Fox" walks into the bar, and the first man he meets, is standing and his name is Charlie, and when he leaves, the other worker says "good-bye Charlie" to the character Charlie, not Charlie Sheen.
Corrected entry: Sir Laurence Wildman "saves" the airline thanks to Bud. Why isn't he named in the insider trading scandal? It's half his fault.
Correction: Bud is arrested for all the other things he's been doing (stealing files using the cleaning company, etc), not anything specifically related to the airline takeover.
Corrected entry: At the very end, the FBI agents take a tape recorder off Bud after he has just met Gekko in a park and recorded their conversation. This is supposed to be the start of Gekko's downfall, but Gekko says nothing incriminating at all in his conversation with Bud. The closest he gets is: "I opened doors for you. I showed you how the system works - the value of information. How you get it. Anacott Steel, Brant Resources, Transuniversal, Fulham Oil. I gave you everything." Legally meaningless, and it can all be explained away by a (highly paid) lawyer as innocuous and innocent. In order to prosecute him in relation to the meaningless, ambiguous statements he made to Bud the prosecution would have to make assumptions and leaps of logic that are simply not allowed in a court in the US. Gekko is a millionaire many times over - his lawyers would have the contents of the tape laughed out of court. If the prosecution based investigations on the things Gekko said to Bud it would take his defence attorney about a minute to have the tape excluded, along with anything that led from the conversation. It's called 'the fruit of a poisoned tree' and it is a hugely important legal principle in the US.
Correction: The correction is nonsense and ignores US law. Gekko says nothing that cannot be explained away. In order to prosecute him in relation to the meaningless, ambiguous statements he made to Bud, the prosecution would have to make assumptions and leaps of logic that are simply not allowed. Gekko is a millionaire many times over - his lawyers would have the contents of the tape laughed out of court.
Correction: In his anger, Gekko involves himself in transactions that before he spoke were all on Bud. During the meeting with his lawyer, he informed Bud that the trades would all be on him due to the way things were set up with the limited POA (he was taking sole responsibility). He also took responsibility for teaching Bud how to trade without being detected and how to hide the money. At the very least, even with a good attorney, Gekko opened up the door for them to find out who owned the overseas accounts and see if the taxes had been paid on the money (hello Al Capone). I don't care how good you are, there is no reason to mention those companies along with what he taught him if it wasn't about insider trading. It's not coincidence that Bud was never involved in shady dealings until he met Gekko. They can then go back before then and look at all the brokers Gekko is involved with and follow the paper trails.
Corrected entry: It is said that Gordon Gekko sold NASA stock short on the day the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up. NASA stock? What NASA stock? NASA is a government department, not a company. You could no more buy or sell shares in NASA than you could in the Department of Defense, Environment, Immigration or Social Security.
Correction: This is not a mistake. "NASA stock" refers to those government contractors who supply NASA. It isn't literally about trading stock in a government agency which is impossible.
Correction: It is a joke meant to highlight Gordon's lack of concern as to how he makes money. The characters all know that you can't buy or sell NASA shares and that helps make the joke funnier. It is therefore not a mistake.
Correction: "OT" on the N number does not signify anything. The N number is 4550T (455zeroTango). The FAA does not issue N numbers using the letter "O" as it can be confused with "0" zero (as is the letter "I" can be confused with the number one 1). Google N4550T and you can see it was a BAC 1-11 that was parted out in the early 90's.