looking for some suggestions

[Layla Nahar]

Can anyone think of some move depictions of the young executive/evil yuppie type, like the guy in the Christian Bale Batman, or Paul Reiser in Aliens?

Oh - and any Hollywood movies about Hollywood, like Get Shorty?

[Nolita]

Almost anything with James Spader. He's the go-to-slimy-yuppy-bastard for the 80's. He's the best at it. Sure he's versatile, but he pretty much cornered the market on yuppy-bastard from hell. If a director was making a teen movie in the 80's and couldn't get Spader(he played a wide range of ages all through the 80's), they went with Billy Zabka, the poor man's Spader.

[Higgins]

Almost anything with James Spader. He's the go-to-slimy-yuppy-bastard for the 80's. He's the best at it. Sure he's versatile, but he pretty much cornered the market on yuppy-bastard from hell. If a director was making a teen movie in the 80's and couldn't get Spader(he played a wide range of ages all through the 80's), they went with Billy Zabka, the poor man's Spader.


Peter Gallagher? Not as in Dreamchild (1985), but maybe Sex Lies and Video Tape?

[herdon]

The Player almost combines both.

[The Grift]

For things about Hollywood just get all three seasons of Entourage. That will tell you everything you need to know.

Movie depictions of evil yuppies. I assume you were already referring to American Psycho with Christian Bale. Also, Rob Lowe in Wayne's World, and wasn't he an exec in the Flinstones? Jay Mohr in Jerry Maguire. Man, there's a whole lot of them. It is not an underused archetype. It depends what you're looking for. Truly evil and scary like Patrick Bateman, or comedically evil like Rob Lowe. Or somewhere in between.

[Nolita]

Ooh then there's Kevin Spacey in "Swimming with Sharks", he was good and slimy in that.

[Prawn]

How about the Classic Micheal Douglas as Gordon Gecko in Wall Street? It won the Oscar that year.

[alleycat]

Evan McGregor in Rogue Trader.

I'd also agree about The Player being a good film about Hollywood. Also, maybe Grand Canyon.

[Nolita]

Okay we forgot a key word. They're asking for young. Yep-yep, stick with Spader.

[herdon]

Okay we forgot a key word. They're asking for young. Yep-yep, stick with Spader.

Of course, young isn't a very good key word. 50 could be young to someone who is 90. ;)

[Scrawler]

Young? How about a young James Spader in the 1986 movie Pretty in Pink?
"Known for his mastery of the smarmy, sexually deviant yuppie, Spader got his start in Pretty in Pink"

[chartreuse]

There's a film called In the Company of Men with Aaron Eckhart (sp?) that is pretty brutal (psychologically). He and a co-worker make an agreement to both start dating the same secretary (who's deaf) and to then both dump her at the same time.

[blacbird]

It's a digression from the OP, but if you haven't seen Spader in the TV series Boston Legal, you've missed something. He is a fabulous foil for William Shatner's gloriously clueless bigot (also shockingly well-played, best role of Shatner's career).

caw

[triceretops]

How about David Spade? Anything with him in it, except Joe Dirt.

Tri

[Layla Nahar]

Thank you for these suggesions - it's a big help. There's a bunch of stuff here I just wouldn't have thought of!

(Go Water Cooler!)

ps - I get to do a lot of research at the video store & on my couch! ;)