The Wolf of Wall Street

An adaptation of Jordan Belfort's memoir chronicling his rise and fall on Wall Street and his hard-partying, addiction-fuelled personal life. Welcome to Martin Scorsese’s 22nd feature film, another of his examinations of the rites and rituals of a particular sect, be it the wiseguys of ‘70s Little Italy ( Mean Streets ) or the society scions of late 19th-Century New York ( The Age Of Innocence ). With its rise-and-fall arc, its hedonism and hubris, its gleeful exploration of the dark side of the America Dream, its money, crime and narcs, its sex, drugs and rock’n’roll (though the soundtrack also takes in Madness, Simon & Garfunkel and a fair bit of Euro pop), The Wolf Of Wall Street forms a loose trilogy with GoodFellas and Casino. And if it can’t quite match the energy and quality of those classics, it nonetheless stands as Scorsese’s finest for 15 years. When we first meet Jordan Belfort, he’s more pup than wolf, his lowest-rung job at L.F. Rothschild requiring him only to “smile and dial”. A first-day lunch with big boss Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey, hilarious) sows the seeds of the chaos to come, though: Hanna advises him that the stock market is “all fugazi” while preaching the worthlessness of morals and the necessity of greed, cocaine and, to stay relaxed, jerking off twice daily. Then, on 19 October, 1987, the very day Jordan becomes a licensed broker, the market crashes and Rothschild goes under. Jordan joins a penny-stocks firm in Long Island, employing a bunch of expert salesmen (mainly weed) from his old Queens neighbourhood and making Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill, terrific) VP despite his phosphorescent teeth and shoulder-slung pastel sweaters. The triumphant result is named Stratton Oakmont, and if there’s one thing these guys know how to do, besides sell, it’s party – Jordan blows $26,000 on a lunch, is married to a model, shags prostitutes five, six times a week, and hoovers Quaaludes, Xanax, cocaine and morphine. It’s only a matter of time before the FBI (in the form of Kyle Chandler) come calling… Perhaps deciding the crazed behaviour is enough, perhaps thinking he took stylistic verve as far as it could go in GoodFellas , Scorsese shoots largely with a static camera. His use of whip pans, crash zooms, freeze frames and tracking shots proves so infrequent that Spielberg, visiting the set, suggested he might want to move the camera. But TWOWS is far from muzzled. It is, of course, all part of Scorsese’s plan to charm viewers into accepting Belfort’s outrageously selfish, unthinkingly cruel behaviour. It works, too – more so because Terence Winter’s ( Boardwalk Empire , The Sopranos ) screenplay cleaves to our anti-hero, refusing to investigate the fallout of his misdeeds as he steals from rich and poor alike to line his own pockets (and mirror). It’s a decision some will take issue with, just as some, justifiably, accuse Scorsese of being in thrall to his gangsters. But this is Jordan’s tale, and it’s sold by a magnetic, never-better DiCaprio. A touch too long, yet never slack, at three hours, TWOWS benefits from independent funding, Scorsese’s brass balls and an A-grade cast’s turbulent improvisations to emerge as an epic, boldly broad screwball comedy about the state of America, then and now. Despite the US censors trimming back the screwing and swearing, this is an audacious, riotous epic. Scorsese and DiCaprio’s fifth and best pairing, it’s liable to give the Academy a heart attack.

Very good movie but the start is basically him saying 'look at me! I'm a millionaire. I'm better than you and I can have as many women and drugs as I want!' BUT, bear with it. As the movie opens up and starts to explain how he got there, the difficulties he faced and the magnitude of what he actually did in THE worst stock market crash there ever was, you begin to see why this is such a great movie. It might not be everyone's cup of tea though. Throughout the entire movie, there's sex (lots of it) drugs (lots of them) and bad language (so much, you'll forget that they're swearing!) The way the film is put together and the comedy element makes for a great watch. You'll want to find out what happens and what the movie is all about when he is forced to find another place to work. Watch what happens there and you will not be able to stop :) All in all, watch this movie. Well worth the money, definitely worth your time (2hours 57mins I think!)

Quite simply one of the greatest movies ever. It holds no punches. No topic is taboo. No scene is too vulgar. It is about a stock broker called Jordan Belfort who due to economic turmoil gets kicked off of Wall Street and to get work he goes to a smaller firm selling penny stocks over the phone. Wall Street gave small cuts to their staff for every sale they made. On massive stocks. The idea is you can sell tonnes of it and make money for yourself. The smaller guys give bigger cuts for selling piddly amounts of low end stocks. Hence the term penny stocks. The thing is Jordan having just come from the big leagues now realises he can sell crap tonnes of these stocks to unsavvy customers and he takes the bigger cut from relatively nice amounts of stock sales. Over time he expands on his own and gets a team together basically makes millions of dollars. This won't be for everyone though. It is pretty much one massive drug addled party the entire way through. I'll give you a taste. There is one scene where a person in a not even slightly shy manner describes his masturbation habits to Jordan in a restaurant. Another where one of the cast describes his "relations" with the woman who gave him his kids who also happens to be his cousin. One scene where a man has sex with a hooker while about ten people in casual work attire stand around and watch/wait their turn. Scenes of drug taking. More breasts than I think I've ever seen in a movie in my life, as well as plenty of lady parts and even a prosthetic penis. If that doesn't say everything there is to say about this movie I really don't know what will. If any of that doesn't sound like it is for you then chances are it probably isn't and there is probably about ten other things in this movie that I haven't mentioned that WILL also offend you in that case. Everyone else though seriously BUY THIS MOVIE!

Not the best Scorsese movie you'll ever see, but it's still worth the risk. We've seen Glen Gary Glen Ross, we've seen Boiler Room, we've seen Rogue Trader, and of course, we've seen Wall Street. How does this compare? How does this hold up? It does just fine, but is fine enough for Scorsese? No....Goodfellas did it a lot better. Cape Fear did it somewhat better. Raging Bull did it much better. i read somewhere this being a 'return to form' after the mediocre Shutter Island, that's a plausible evaluation.... I don't have to tell you the truth do I? I just tell you what you want to hear, right? That means anything I tell you will make you and me a whole bunch of cash. But I don't care if I'm lying about it. I'll tell you anything to get your money off you. Why? Because you don't say no to me....loss of gain is greater than the fear of rejection. Get them so they feel guilty about saying no. Classic sales techniques. 'I could sell artificial snow to the eskimos, and they'd still come back for more' We hear lots of speeches, to justify his ostentation, his totally hedonistic and materialistic lifestyle and when, at the end of the movie we see the FBI guy look at the ordinary people on the subway, he doesn't look down on them, why? because they didn't get what they've got illegally. Other people have the same lifestyle - footballers, F1 drivers, musicians, etc. so why pick on a stock-broker? What's the big deal? 9 out of ten US bank notes are said to have traces on cocaine on them...how did they get there? Money makes the world go around right? Wrong. It will cost you your marriage and kids and, eventually, like one Nick Leason found out, six years in jail. Belfort did 22 months in real life - yes he is a real person and yes people actually think the way he does in real life. But he still got his comeuppance. It wasn't that big because the scale of what he was doing wasn't that huge.... Leeson did far worse. But the movie Rogue Trader was already made...was DiCaprio aware of that? The underlying message of this movie is about the justification for wanting to make money - anyway possible to enable one to lead such a hedonistic lifestyle, But it also tries to tell us about risk, about selling, about financial ethics. Does it succeed? Not really. Those speeches are minor quips and how he whips up the adrenalin and testosterone of the 'shop floor' to try harder, to not give up... that money can make a difference in people's lives. It can improve the quality of them.... But at the end of the day our mr Belfort is just, sadly, another womanising, drugged-up sex addict, who wants everything right now... and he mostly gets it - all be it illegally. The film is a bit long, the soundtrack is no where near as good as Goodfellas, there are numerous naked scenes and lots of drug taking scenes... are they all necessary. No. And in my view that's where the movie fails... we see too much of that, and not enough of how it actually went about it...it his a biopic, yes, and we see what Belfort does - but we don't really get to see much of his underlying character... the film is as superficial as the subject matter, the black humour comedy elements get in the way too much...even if the movie is essentially a black comedy.... either do one or the other... Capitalism itself is never that interesting or funny. You could say Joe Pesci should have been in this movie, as should Alec Baldwin as the FBI guy too, the rest of the cast weren't that well known... But Margot Robbie is a stunner as his wife though, and holds her own, despite being much younger in real life. Overall, this is every enjoyable to watch, and I would recommend it, DiCaprio is very convincing as usual, but don't expect too much. ps. The best scene for my money (no pun intended) was when he threw lobsters at the FBI when they first saw him on his boat.

Decent film, husband loved this as a gift

Absolutely loved it! It was hilarious in places. The true story it's based on has obviously been embellished in some places to make it more entertaining but it was still a very funny film places. The only minor beef would be with the silly attempts at pathos. For example ( spolier ) the moment where it comes crashing down and he beats his wife, that wasn't very believable given the way the rest of the script was written. I think DiCaprio plays the slimy, scumbag broker to the hilt, very believable and it has such a superb supporting cast. The film is quite long at nearly 3 hours but it's good see that the story was not compromised in order to satisfy the standard 90 min attention span that most movies are shot for. The lesson, that Belfort himself preaches, is played out perfectly in the film, "Passion is good. Ambition is good. They make people achieve stunning things. Greed is not good."

Really good film funny in parts!

best movie ive seen in ages! and im fussy! Leonardo DiCaprio gets better and better! he really really suits the role of high flying, drug obsessed stock broker. Be warned it is a looong film but by the end you'll still want more! great 80s tunes in it aswell! you couldnt ask for a funnier movie! the movie follows true story, Jordan Belfort's life from innocent, optimistic, starting out in life but after meeting Mathew mcconaughey's character and a recession in the market he changes to drugs, hookers and fraud. Its all downhill from there though and it follows his downfall. Only wish the movie showed more of his arrest and restitution's made.. all in all if you havent seen it, you need to!

Martin Scorsese's marvelously entertaining "The Wolf of Wall Street" is one of those movies guaranteed to polarize viewers. It has been vilified as vulgar, sexist, obscene, immoral, disgusting, overly long, hedonistic and glorifying in its debauchery. Its controversial nature is evidence in its overall three star rating; some people love it and others hate it. Those that hate "Wolf of Wall Street" feel that the movie celebrates the life of crime while neglecting those who suffered from it. But those detractors have missed the point. "The Wolf of Wall Street" is supposed to be vulgar, long and hedonistic because that's how the characters are. Far from glorifying the corrupt lifestyle of a pawnbroker, Scorsese shows us just how sick and perverted it is. Scorsese isn't the kind of director that's going to have characters spew banal dialogue on how wrong it is for pawnbrokers to perform pump and dump scams; he just presents it. That's not moral irresponsibility; that's great film making. Why tell it when you can simply show it? Like many of Martin Scorsese's movies, the main characters in "The Wolf of Wall Street" are ambiguous antiheroes who are neither warm or likable (and any pawnbroker that screws over victims is hardly likable), but have a snake-like fascination about them that just grips your attention. Many of the actors, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Rob Reiner, are given the difficult task of making these repellent characters attractive and they succeed in spades. Hill is particularly outstanding as Donnie Azoff and the sequences where he is flashing his private parts, terrorizes an employee by eating his fish and then makes fun of an associate for sucker punching him demonstrate that there's more to Hill as an actor than many people believe. Also excellent is Kyle Chandler as the shrewd FBI agent out to bring Belfort down and there's a riveting sequence where on Belfort's yacht where he tries to bribe the agent into joining him. Equally noteworthy, however, is Matthew McConaughey's memorable cameo as the man who ultimately gives Belfort the tools to succeed by adopting sex and cocaine. His character appears for only a few minutes, but those are very pivotal minutes. Everybody who saw this movie knows what I'm talking about and if you don't, let me help you: "hoohuuum hoohuuummm hooo hooum hooo hoouuumm" (while pounding my chest). The movie, of course, is riotously funny, probably the funniest movie Scorsese has made since "After Hours", but it's a different kind of funny. What offended many viewers was that the film did not depict Stratton Oakmont customers having their lives destroyed by these materialistic pigs and they even felt the movie laughed at their misfortune. But the joke isn't on the victims; it's on the characters. Or to be more precise, the joke is on us, but the VENOM is on them for disregarding human life. There's a hilarious and disturbing sequence where Belfort suffers a cerebral palsy at the moment he finds out the FBI is tapping his house phone. Not only does he have a hard time getting to his car, but when he gets home, he struggles to grab his house phone and save a patron from choking on a snack. It's a frighteningly hilarious sequence because here's a guy who ripped off millions of dollars from investments and this is where he's spending it on. And anyone who had doubts that DiCaprio had a sense of humor should check this sequence out. At first glance, one expects a spiritual successor to Oliver Stone's more conventional "Wall Street", but if you expect a typical crime drama where the villain gets away or achieves redemption, you don't know Scorsese. This is the same filmmaker that showed us the seductive allure and fatal consequences of operating in a crime organization ("Mean Streets", "GoodFellas", "Casino"), paralleled cops and robbers as if they were two sides of the coin ("The Departed"), expressed the ugliness of sexual jealousy and machismo behavior ("Raging Bull") and showed how social media can turn psychopaths into heroes ("Taxi Driver") and even celebrities ("The King of Comedy"). Scorsese is both attracted and repulsed by these antiheroes and their dark side and it's no doubt he is every bit as disgusted by their actions as many of the people who hated this movie were. "Wolf of Wall Street", far from immoral, is a very moral movie. It's clear that, by the end, Belfort still hasn't learn his lesson and continues to have a good life while everyone else he has scammed and betrayed is suffering to this very day. Instead, the moral journey is for us, to persuade us to not follow the lifestyle of these despicable, heartless deadheads who wallow and are destroyed by their own wretched excess and hubris. That's why "Wolf of Wall Street" demands to be seen and why the critics who assailed the film should watch it again to get the message.

SCORSESE Scorsese é cosi: una goduria per i cinematografari, un po limitato per chi cerca spessore e umanità. Di spessore non ne ho trovato molto (in fondo, su wall street, aveva gia detto tutto oliver stone 30 anni fa, com un film che infatti é stato apprezzato sia dai sostenitori che dai detrattori di quel mondo, tanto é realistico), i personaggi sono buffi, ma non sfaccettati (ovviamente Di Caprio & co, li rendono cool e intriganti perche sono tutti dei grandi attori), e francamente lo avrei fatto finire mezz'ora prima (Scorsese a volte si innamora delle sue storie senza capire che, dall'altra parte, certe dettagli e certe scene possono risultare superflue, vedi tutto il racconto finale che indulge troppo su come va a finire la storia tra lui e lei). E sicuramente ciò che lo rende interessante ma può essere un limite è che Scorsese, pur nel suo stile fiammeggiante, è in fondo un tipo freddo, e lascia poco spazio al "calore" dei personaggi. IL FILM Ma la freddezza è anche ciò che rende Scorsese sempre così esatto e penetrante: guardare i suoi film è come guardare degli insetti con l'occhio di un entomologo. E qui, il suo occhio, si ammanta di uno stile, montaggio, trovate talmente brillanti, che se si pensa che tra Scorsese e la sua fedele montatrice (thelma shoonmaker), fanno piu di 150 anni in due, viene da togliersi il cappello e prendere a sberle tutti quei giovani registi che credono di essere cool, ma dovrebbero solo imparare da questi due. Se solo Scorsese fosse meno freddo e compiaciuto, e, come fa ogni tanto, ci raccontasse personaggi un po meno caratterizzati, più sfumati, magari anche non accontentandosi di raccontarci ambienti chiusi in se stessi (la malavita, il business, ecc) e riuscisse ad essere un po piu universale (cosa che invece Spielberg, per citare altri maestri, fa sempre, anche quando usa la metafora di un ambiente specifico, pur a volte risultando meno "perfetto" di Scorsese) sarebbe ancora meglio. Sarebbe piu caldo e di cuore, e meno freddamente incandescente. É un fuoco freddo il suo, ma indubbiamente fa godere l'occhio e il cervello. IL BLU RAY Che dire? sorprendente e da godersi in lingua originale per apprezzare finalmente il valore di un attore come Di Caprio, uno dei pochi che sa giocare con la voce come Jack Nicholson e qualche altro raro fenomeno

Un film shock, divertentissimo, perchè davvero crudo (da una storia vera - adattata ovviamente, ma non di molto, è questo che è da shock. altro che i porno, questo sarebbe seriamente v.m. 18). come la finanza ci frega tutti, grandi e piccoli investitori, di continuo. con un Di Caprio da oscar. come sempre, ma più di sempre: fa davvero una parte da matto geniale e la fa benissimo, fa schiantare, un vero mattatore, come Gassman nel Sorpasso versione terzo millennio (hai detto niente!). incredibile, nonostante anche le ben 5 nomination, un icona tra gli attori di questa generazione, che Di Caprio non abbia mai vinto la statuetta (ma molti golden globe - un pò da serie b però) quando invece lo danno a cani e porci appena arrivati. una volta si diceva che aveva l'aria un pò da bamboccio, ora di certo non lo si può più dire. ha fatto tra i film più belli degli ultimi vent'anni (compresi certi un pò sconosciuti lavori in gioventù, fantastici, come "speriamo non debba diventare nonno per avere un oscar alla carriera come Morricone. si dice che in Italia non si hanno mezzi per fare grandi film per tutti (non solo cose da cineforum). che scemenza colossale. una volta si aveva cinecittà, non certo grandi mezzi, ma non era questo il punto che ci faceva grandi. guardate questo film e capirete che è solo questione di stile, coraggio, idee. da noi ormai fanno fotocopie delle serie tv, loro invece fanno sul serio.

Un de mes films préfèré,la version bluray est très bonne ,pour la bande son,c'est pas un film d'action mais cela rend très bien malgré tout!!!! MERCI AMAZON

Den hat Martin Scorsese mit der Verfilmung von Jordan Belforts(Leonardo DiCaprio) „Broker-Karriere“ -The Wolf of Wall Street- auf die Filmrolle gebannt. Belforts Buch zeigt schonungslos auf, wie das Geschäft mit windigen Wertpapieren funktioniert. Dabei sucht Scorsese gar nicht nach der Moral von der Geschichte, denn: Die gibt es im Film so wenig wie im wahren Leben. Vielmehr dreht sich alles um Geld, Drogen und Frauen; und zwar genau in dieser Reihenfolge. Auf dieses irrwitzige Karussel aus Gier, Betrug und schlichtem Wahnsinn hält Scorsese seine Kamera voll drauf und spielt dabei mit den Bildern. Er schafft es tatsächlich, zum einen die „Bande von Brokern“ als unkultivierte Wilde darzustellen, um sie nur kurze Zeit später als gerissene Börsenhaie zu präsentieren. Diese Achterbahnfahrt mit einem begnadeten Leonardo DiCaprio in der Hauptrolle ist es, die einem bei -The Wolf of Wall Street- schlichtweg den Atem raubt. Wenn Scorsese dann noch seinen Hauptdarsteller mit der Kamera "flirten" lässt und der Zuschauer direkt angesprochen wird, ist das ein echter cineastischer Leckerbissen. Dieser Film ist gnadenlos, spannend, witzig, unterhaltsam, schockierend und radikal. Ich habe mich davon fantastisch unterhalten lassen und weiß jetzt endlich wieder, wieso ich keine Aktien besitze... Jordan Belfort arbeitet in den 80er Jahren als Broker in einem kleinen Unternehmen. 1987, am Schwarzen Montag, geht der Laden pleite. Zunächst sitzt Belfort auf der Straße, doch dann steigt er bei einem Unternehmen ein, dass Pennystocks, das sind Aktien im außerbörslichen Handel, verkauft. Jordan ist ein Verkaufstalent. Schnell steigt er auf und verdient gutes Geld. Dann lernt er Donnie Azoff(Jonah Hill) kennen. Der wohnt mit ihm im gleichen Haus, hat von Aktien keine Ahnung, will aber bei Jordan einsteigen. Die beiden machen sich selbständig und gründen mit Freunden das Unternehmen Stratton Oakmont. Es dauert nicht lange und die Zahl der Mitarbeiter wächst so rasant, wie die Millionenbeträge auf den Konten von Oakmont. Zu den Geschäften gesellen sich exessiver Drogenkonsum, wilde Orgien und ein dreistes, gieriges Vorgehen am Markt. Jordan steigt auf zum „Wolf der Wall Street“. Bald weiß er nicht mehr, wo er sein Geld lassen soll und lernt dann auch noch die schöne Naomi(Margot Robbie) kennen. Jordan lässt sich scheiden, wird noch reicher und hat dann irgendwann das FBI an den Hacken... Unglaublich, aber trotzdem wahr, ist diese Geschichte. Vermutlich hier und da stark überzeichnet, aber(das vermute ich leider) sehr oft auch nicht. Abenteuerlich verrückt ist der Aufstieg von Belfort und wie das alles ausging, kann man im Netz nachlesen. Scorsese muss sich gefreut haben, diesen Stoff verfilmen zu können. Neben dieser aberwitzigen Story ist es auch die Besetzungsliste, die aufhorchen lässt. Leonardo DiCaprio ist absolut genial. Jonah Hill, John Bernthal, Kenneth Choi, Margot Robbie, P.J. Byrne und Mathew McConaughy vervollständigen ein Klasse-Ensemble. Dazu gibt es in einer Mini-Rolle als Moderator den echten Jordan Belfort zu sehen. Es heißt ja, dass das Leben die besten Geschichten schreibt. Bei -The Wolf of Wall Street- kann man ergänzen, dass es vermutlich auch die verrücktesten Geschichten schreibt. Dies ist eine davon. Schauen sie sich das an und staunen sie...