Under most circumstances, the actions of Belfort and his cronies (including Jonah Hill in a howlingly funny turn as Belfort’s business partner) would be viewed as disgustingly abhorrent, but Martin Scorsese frames this tale of greed with a comedic lens that allows us to laugh at things we probably shouldn’t find humorous. His rise and fall is chronicled in “ The Wolf of Wall Street“, based on the memoir of the same name. High pressure sales tactic and less-than-legal behind-the-scenes manipulation bred plenty of twenty-something millionaires, and Belfort built himself an empire at the top of the heap.
In the mid-1990s, Jordan Belfort ( Leonardo DiCaprio) and the rest of his associates from brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont became the very definition of excess and debauchery, their offices a boiler room fueled by cocaine and greed. The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.” I’m a former member of the middle class raised by two accountants in a tiny apartment in Bayside, Queens.
Film Description The Wolf of Wall Street Movie Poster “My name is Jordan Belfort.
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