For them, no time is wrong for an orgy or a new hustle. Putting on the brakes is the problem for Belfort and his top wingman, Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill starts at terrific and builds from there). Scorsese and camera whiz Rodrigo Prieto ( Amores Perros) don’t skimp on the decadence. But what sins! In his 2007 autobiography, the source for Winter’s script, Belfort detailed excesses that would shame Roman emperors. Belfort eventually did 22 months of jail time for his sins. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Belfort moved from hawking penny stocks in boiler rooms to founding Stratton Oakmont, a Long Island firm that ran the same hustle in a classier office. Greed is their bond, and they wear it like a second skin.įront and center is Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), a New York broker with the talent to sell you nightmares disguised as dreams. The stock scammers of Wolf don’t carry guns or run gambling dens. Once again, following Goodfellas and Casino, Scorsese has his eye on money and how it moves through society, top to bottom. Wolf snarls and bites, but you won’t forget for a second that you’re in the hands of a master filmmaker. If that’s too much for you, go watch The Sound of Music. The laughs are merciless and nonstop, every one with a sting in its tail.
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Working with a gutsy script by The Sopranos‘ Terence Winter, Scorsese is jabbing hard at America’s jackpot culture. Look closely and you might see your own venal fantasies in how these Wall Street scumbags spend their ill-gotten gains on drugs, hookers, cars, yachts and jets. This is Scorsese, people, delivering a cinematic landmark. Yeah, like we don’t spend that much time every effing day exchanging banalities on digital media.
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You probably hate that it runs three hours. I could have taken a few more pows – which shows how much fun it is to spar with this frisky badboy.
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That’s how Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street comes at you.