The Wolf of Wall Street is full of idiot psychos, but they’ve come to party.Īfter Belfort’s over-the-top self-introduction, the movie steps back to show his arrival on Wall Street as a twentysomething kitten from middle-class Long Island. The random violence, the probability of being caught, the mistakes, the mistresses, the paranoia: Only a psychopath - or an idiot - could leave that movie wanting to join the mob. The cocaine in that movie kept everybody from looking down at the life-or-death tightrope they walked. The movies are basically twins: two accounts of young men exhilarated by sex, drugs, money, and crime. This is a self-impressed variation on the offscreen guiding Ray Liotta did as Henry Hill in Scorsese’s Goodfellas. A minute after the movie’s begun, one of Jordan’s sports cars whizzes by in the narration he declares the car’s color is wrong, and it changes on the spot. Winter locates the decadence in the self-aggrandizement and turns it up. But mostly it reads like a long-form hip-hop record. Belfort imagined the book to be contrite. The movie is taken from The Wolf of Wall Street, Belfort’s real-life first memoir (there are two), and the screenwriter Terence Winter seizes on the book’s braggy, “can you top this?” tone.
You’re wiping off cream starting from the opening couple of montages, which are narrated by DiCaprio. Is the end nigh for Hollywood? Do You Like Prince Movies? PodcastĪlex Pappademas and Wesley Morris discuss Beyoncé, American Hustle, and R. The Top 10 Movies of 2013Ĭounting down Wesley Morris’s favorites. On American Hustle and The Desolation of Smaug. Scorsese hurls the madness at you like a pie in the face. You never lose site of the lawlessness, the reckless pleasure, the sheer lunacy and lack of regulation. For three hours the movie operates at a ridiculous comedic pitch. But Martin Scorsese turns national tragedy into farce, and rarely in a way that feels itself distasteful. The opportunity to say or do something about the predations of the banking industry would push a lot of directors into righteousness and solemnity. But this whole movie is like that imaginary baseball: hit right out of the park. It could be the controlled chaos of it all.
That song is an even better city-playground record than “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” and it gives ironic funk and Latin soul to what’s effectively a spirit-bilking exercise. Who knows why this image got to me? It could be that just as the camera does its thing the live sound drops out and Jimmy Castor’s “Hey Leroy, Your Mama Callin’ You” starts to play. It soars over the rows and rows of desks as men and women scream into their phones because their young, coked-up commander - who illegally owns a huge share of the company - has coked them up, too. When the imaginary ball flies, the camera sails with it. Belfort finishes his speech by simulating the swing and smack of a baseball. Investment banker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) stands before the scores of bankers of his scammy Stratton Oakmont brokerage and cajoles them into telling their clients to buy stock in the shoe company Steve Madden (it’s the early 1990s). But there’s one in The Wolf of Wall Street that almost made me weep. Now, to get in you the mood, here's a small ritual we urge you to carry out before you go and buy one.It’s rare that a tracking shot brings a tear to my eye. cannot be held responsible for the quality, integrity or general rubbishness of any of the cars featured. So, as The Wolf of Wall Street will feature heavily at the upcoming Oscars ceremony, here are some examples of the cars in the film you can actually buy, accompanied with rather a large disclaimer. And, as any car aficionado will attest, this era provided the world with supercars that adorned the bedroom walls of many a teenager. What we can tell you, however, it that because TWOWS is a period film, the producers got to play with the period vehicles of the 1980s and 1990s. It's really rather good, though we can't tell you too much about it because (a) we don't want to issue spoilers and (b) most of it is rather X-rated. If you've not seen the film, it is a wild, hedonistic and down-right scandalous take on real-life human Jordan Belfort's fraudulent early life as a crooked stockbroker on Wall Street.
Leonardo DiCaprio's new flick, The Wolf of Wall Street, has been nominated for five Oscars.
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