Wolf Of Wall Street

Wolf Of Wall Street

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Starring:

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort

Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff

Margot Robbie as Naomi Lapaglia

Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna

Kyle Chandler as Agent Patrick Denham

If you’ve ever seen any post about Leonardo DiCaprio, you’ll seeing people complimenting about his acting skills but saying that he still can’t get any Oscar awards for any role that he acted as. I’ve watched a couple of his movie such as the Inception and The Great Gatsby but I do agree that he is a great actor that deserves an Oscar but not as much as the how great of an actor the people in the internet described about him. Then, I was recommended this movie by my friend, he told me that I’d love it and he didn’t tell me anything to ruin the surprised. The Wolf of Wall Street, I thought it was another gloomy movie about investments and stuff which I’m pretty sure that I’m not interested in, I’ve never been so wrong.

The Wolf of Wall Street takes us back to the 1980s to 1990s in New York, the story of a young man call Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), young and ambitious, trying to get filthy rich in the financial service industry. 6months into the job, he learnt the ins and outs of Wall Street but right after he gets his brokerage license, Black Monday came, the whole market collapsed, making him lose his job.  He then finally found a job at a small penny-stock firm where. This is when the movie started to get my attention, first day at job, Jordan sold $4000 worth of pink sheet shares, where he earns a 50% commission instead of the 1% he gets from selling blue chip shares. It’s not how much sales he did, it’s his confidence that caught my attention when he was on the phone with the client, how much confidence he has when describing a worthless company. Within months, he gained his capital, he opened a trading firm with his buddies, mostly salesmen that sells weed. With his training, he was able to make his group of young, ambitious and wild buddies into professional salesmen. They first sells blue chip stocks to rich people where they’ll earn for sure, then after Jordan gets their confidence, he starts to throw in the pink sheet shares, where they earn a 50% commission which obviously made them extremely rich.

With their extremely lavish lifestyles, money, drugs, prostitutes, they soon got the attention that they didn’t wanted, attention from the FBI. The rest of the story is basically about how he tries to get away with his crimes from the FBI agent. By the time he was arrested he already became a man that was so disgusting and grotesque that it actually makes you feel sick, it was drugs everywhere.

Get back to where I started from, Leonardo DiCaprio. Wow. I’m speechless. That was acting at its finest, he was able to act out the insanity and madness inside Wall Street, especially when Jordan is on drugs. And when Jordan was sober, Leonardo was also able to speak in so much of confidence, making everything seems so convincing. Last thing, you might wonder why the main genre of this movie is comedy? Well, it’s the scenes that are really funny, especially when he is on drugs and doing stupid things with his gang of buddies, from using midgets as lawn darts to masturbating in a party while high on drugs, every single scene was funny as hell. Overall I rate this movie 9.5 out of 10, one of my all-time favourite movie, everything was just so good, maybe except for the excessive nudity. 


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