“Bulls” and “bears” refer to people who are optimistic or pessimistic, respectively, about where the market is heading. Don’t be the dumb intern who asks your boss why there is such large market for undomesticated animals. The opening lines of the film are: “T he world of investing can be a jungle: bulls, bears, danger at every turn.” Sounds like something out of the Wizard of Oz, right? Not quite.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET ENDING MOVIE
If you’ve ever interned at an investment office, you’ll probably notice some overlap between the movie and real life - so much so, in fact, that we’d venture to say this movie can, in its own ludicrous and unethical way, provide a few worthwhile lessons about working in the financial industry. While much of these scenes are absurdly exaggerated and terrifically entertaining depictions of what goes on in brokerage firms, there are smidgens of truth in Scorcese’s portrayal. Much of the movie’s appeal comes from its irreverent and intense depiction of Wall Street in the 1980s - the film is brimming with strippers, drugs and ridiculously extravagant spending binges. In the long shot, there are about 10 steps in all.This past winter, Martin Scorcese shocked, disturbed and intrigued the American public with his three-hour-long biographical dramedy “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The movie follows the true story of Jordan Belford, who becomes a wealthy stockbroker living the high life of crime and corruption. I was wondering why that napkin wasn’t explored further.Īnother thing, is anyone else bothered by the scene at the country club where Jordan is trying to get down the outside stairs? In the scene where he is looking down the stairs there’s only about 5 steps. I remember seeing Donnie Azoff holding his head in his office, watching the FBI come in and arrest all of the other brokers in the office while he was undisturbed. I don’t think that’s what happened, but I think of any other way the FBI would have gotten their hands on that paper. It was excessive and glorious.Īlso, does anyone know how the FBI got the yellow sheet of paper that said “Don’t incriminate yourself, I’m wearing a wire”? Was Jonah Hill’s character supposed to have flipped and ratted him out? Because he doesn’t get busted at the end. The movie was the pen at the end of the movie something you don’t need that you get tricked into wanting. something Belfort was trying to sell to you. I got the feeling the movie was a scam, i.e. But in the end, you need to make the victims much more than a disembodied voice on the other end of a couple of early phone calls… Scorcese has a good sense of what makes an entertaining movie, and I’m sure that on some level he wants to make a cautionary tale. In this way, it’s not much different than stories about the mob – This one is very similar to Goodfellas in many ways. There’s an undercurrent of “gosh, if he hadn’t been a drug addict, if he’d stayed faithful to his wife, it would all have been OK.” The excesses are portrayed as excesses, but come off as fun indulgences.
Except for McConaughey’s introduction to trading at the beginning, there’s no addressing of the fact that what these guys are doing is stealing from people. If he wanted to make a bunch of kids want to be working in the financial markets… then he succeeded. If he meant it to shock people about the excesses of Wall Street, then he failed.
If he meant it as a cautionary tale, then he failed.
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