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The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American epic biographical black comedy crime film, co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir of the same name
. The film chronicles Belfort's career as a New York City stockbroker and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, became involved in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his XXX downfall.
The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend, Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi LaPaglia, Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna, and Kyle Chandler as FBI agent Patrick Denham.
This is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Martin Scorsese.
DiCaprio and Warner Bros. acquired the rights to Belfort's memoir in 2007,
but production was halted due to content restrictions. It was later produced by the independent Red Granite Pictures XXX .
This film was filmed in New York in late 2012 and was shot mostly on 35mm film stock.
The film premiered in New York City on December 17, 2013, and was released in the United States on December 25, 2013, by Paramount Pictures. It was the first major American film to be released exclusively through digital distribution
.[3] It was a huge commercial success, grossing $406.9 million worldwide during its theatrical run, becoming Scorsese's highest-grossing film
. However, the film initially received significant controversy due to its moral ambiguity and lack of empathy for victims, as well as its explicit and graphic sexual content, severe profanity (which includes at least 500 uses of the expletive "fuck"), and XXX depictions of extreme violence
. Drug abuse and use of animals during production. The film was initially rated NC-17 by the Motion Picture Association of America, but was soon requested for an R rating after Scorsese made minor editorial changes to the film. It set a Guinness World Record for the most expletives in a film.
The film's financing became embroiled in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad corruption scandal;
The US Department of Justice and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigated Red Granite Pictures, and producer Reza Aziz was arrested XXX in 2019. Reza Aziz was later released on May 14, 2020 on $248 million bail.
The film received widespread praise (and some moral censure) from critics and appeared on several "best of the year" lists. It was nominated for several awards, including five at the 86th Academy Awards:
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (for Caprio) and Best Supporting Actor (for Hale). DiCaprio won Best Actor – Musical or Comedy at the 71st Golden Globe Awards, where the film was also nominated for Best Picture – Musical or Comedy.
In 1987, 25-year-old Jordan Belfort XXX got a job as a Wall Street stockbroker with L.F. Rothschild
, who was working under Mark Hanna. He is quickly seduced by the drug-fueled stockbroker culture and Hanna's belief that the broker's only goal is to make money for himself. Jordan loses his job after Black Monday,
the largest single-day stock market decline in history after the stock market crash of 1929, and takes a job at a boiler room brokerage firm on Long Island specializing in penny stocks. He made a small fortune thanks to his aggressive style of promotion and high commissions.
Jordan befriends his neighbor Donnie Azoff, and the two start their own boiler room-style brokerage firm.
They recruit Jordan's childhood friends Robbie Feinberg, Alden Kupferburg, Nicky Koskoff, Chester Ming, and Toby Welch, as well as local drug dealer Brad Bonnick, all of whom Jordan trains in the art of the "hard sell," and establish the company.
In an abandoned car repair shop. Jordan's tactics and salesmanship contribute greatly to the success of the pump-and-dump scheme, where XXX misleading positive data inflates the price of a stock so that it can be sold at an artificially high price.
When the perpetrators of the scheme sell their overvalued securities, the price drops dramatically, and those who were tricked into buying at the inflated price are left with stocks that are suddenly worth much less than they paid for them.
To hide this, Jordan gave the company the respectable name of Stratton Oakmont in 1989. Soon after, the company became a huge success, moving from an auto repair shop to a larger office. An exposé in Forbes magazine, which called Jordan XXX "the Wolf of Wall Street" and "a crooked Robin Hood who steals from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers,
" causes hundreds of ambitious young financiers to flock to the firm. Which prompted them to move to larger offices.
As all of this happens, Jordan becomes extremely successful and descends into a decadent lifestyle of prostitutes and drugs. He has an affair with a woman named Naomi LaPaglia, and when his wife Teresa found out, Jordan divorced her and married Naomi in 1991
. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the FBI began investigating Stratton Oakmont.
In 1993, Jordan illegally pocketed $22 million in three hours after securing the IPO of childhood friend and shoe designer Steve Madden. This brings him and his company more FBI attention.
To hide his money, Jordan opens a Swiss bank account with corrupt banker Jean-Jacques Sorel in the name of Naomi's aunt Emma,
a British citizen and therefore outside the direct reach of American authorities. He uses Brad's wife and in-laws, who hold European passports, to smuggle money into Switzerland.
Donnie and Brad get into a heated argument in public during a currency exchange, leading to Brad's arrest, but Donnie escapes.
Jordan learned from his XXX private investigator that the FBI was tapping his phones.
Fearing for his son, Jordan's father advises him to leave Stratton Oakmont and stay away while Jordan's lawyer negotiates a deal to keep him out of prison.
However, Jordan cannot bear to resign and convinces himself to stay in the middle of his farewell speech.
In 1996, Jordan, Donnie and their wives were on a yacht trip to Italy when they learned of Emma's death.
Jordan heads to Switzerland to forge her name and save the account before going to London for her funeral.
To bypass border control, the captain ordered his yacht to sail to Monaco, but the ship capsized in a storm.
After their rescue, the plane sent to take them to Geneva crashed when a XXX seagull entered the engine;
Jordan takes this as a sign from God to address his growing drug addiction and attempts to sober up.
In 1998, Sorrell and Koskoff were arrested for a separate crime and reported Jordan to the FBI.
Since the evidence against him is overwhelming, Jordan agrees to collect evidence from the rest of his colleagues in exchange for leniency.
After having sex one last time, Naomi told Jordan she was divorcing him and wanted full custody of their daughter and infant son.
In a cocaine-induced rage, Jordan hits Naomi and tries to drive away with his daughter but crashes his car in the driveway.
Later, Jordan wears a wire to work but sends a message to Donnie warning him.
The FBI found out, arrested Jordan, and raided and shut down Stratton Oakmont.
Despite violating XXX his agreement, Jordan received a reduced sentence of 36 months in a maximum security prison because of his testimony and wasXXX released in 2000 after serving 22 months. After his release, Jordan makes a living hosting seminars on sales techniques.
In 2007, DiCaprio and Warner Bros. won a bidding war for the rights to Belfort's memoir The Wolf of Wall Street, with Belfort receiving $1 million from the deal.
After working on the film's screenplay, Scorsese was supposed to direct the film but abandoned the project to work on Shutter Island (2010).[8] He has said he "wasted five months of his life" without getting the green light for production dates from Warner Bros.
In 2010, Warner Bros. offered Ridley Scott the directorial role, with DiCaprio playing Belfort,[9] but the studio eventually abandoned the project.[10]
In 2012, independent company Red Granite Pictures greenlit the project with no restrictions on content.
Shortly after, Scorsese returned to the ship.[11] Red Granite Pictures also asked Paramount Pictures to distribute the film;[12] Paramount agreed to do so in XXX North America and Japan, but passed on the rest of the international market, with Universal Pictures acquiring international distribution rights to the film.
According to Belfort, Random House asked him to tone down or delete the depictions of debauchery in his memoirs before publication, particularly those relating to his bachelor party, which included zoophilia, and rampant use of drugs such as nitrous oxide;
Neither the published memoirs nor the film contain references to this.[16][Failed to verify]
In the film, most of the real-life characters' names were changed from Belfort's original memoirs
. Donnie Azoff based on Danny Porush. The name XXX was changed after Porush threatened to sue the filmmakers. Porush maintains that much of the film is fictional and that Azov is not an accurate depiction of it.
Donna Karan Jeanswear's former CEO, Elliott Lavigne, does not appear in the film, but an incident recounted in the book, in which Belfort performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of Lavigne to save him from choking to death, is similar to a scene in the film involving Donnie.
FBI agent Patrick Denham is a stand-in for real-life Gregory Coleman,[19] and attorney Manny Riskin is based on Ira Sorkin. Belfort's first wife, Denise Lombardo, was renamed Teresa Petrillo, and his second wife, Nadine Caridi, is Naomi LaPaglia on screen.
In contrast, Mark Hanna's name remains the same as the stockbroker L.F. Rothschild who, like Belfort, was convicted of fraud and spent time in prison. The names of Belfort's parents, Max and Leah Belfort, remain the same in the film
. The role of Aunt Emma was initially offered to Julie Andrews, who declined while recovering from an ankle injury, and was replaced by Joanna Lumley.XXX Olivia Wilde auditioned for the role of Naomi, but was rejected because she was deemed "too old" for the role, although DiCaprio was a decade older than her
, but the role ultimately went to Margot Robbie. In January 2014, Jonah Hill revealed in an interview with Howard Stern that he earned only $60,000 from the film (SAG-AFTRA's lowest possible rate for his body of work), while DiCaprio (who also produced) earned $10 million.
Filming began on August 8, 2012 in New York City.[29] Hill announced on XXX Twitter that his first day of filming was September 4, 2012.
[30] Filming also took place in Closter, New Jersey, and Harrison, New York. Vitamin D powder was used as a fake for cocaine in the film. Hill was hospitalized with bronchitis due to inhaling large amounts of it during filming.
Scorsese's longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who received seven Academy Award nominations for Best Editing, said the film will be shot digitally rather than on film. Scorsese was a proponent of cinematography, but decided to shoot Hugo digitally because it was shot in 3D.
Although filmed in 2D, The Wolf of Wall Street was originally slated to be shot digitally. Schoonmaker expressed her disappointment with theXXX decision: "It feels like we've lost the battle.
I think Marty feels it's over unfortunately, and there's never been a bigger movie hero than him." Production: The majority of the film was ultimately shot on film stock, while scenes using green screen or low-light effects (primarily night scenes) were shot using an Arri Alexa digital camera system.
The film contains 400-450 visual effects shots.[36]
The film holds a Guinness World Record for the most expletives in a motion picture.[37] He uses the word "fuck" 506 times, "cunt" three times, "twat" twice, "fuckface" once, and "prick" four times, for an average of 2.81 profanities per minute.
Previous record holdersXXX were Scorsese's earlier gangster films Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995), which respectively had 300 and 422 uses of the word, the 1993 film Menace II Society, which had 305 uses, and the 1997 British film Nil by Mouth.
, which was 428, and the film Sam's Summer in 1999, at 435.[37] The record has since been broken by Swearnet: The Movie, which uses the word 935 times, but still holds the record for a major theatrical release.
The film's distributor in the United Arab Emirates cut 45 minutes of scenes of profanity,
religious language, drug use, sex, nudity, and "silent" dialogue containing profanities. The National reported that moviegoers in the UAE believe the film should not be shown rather than being heavily edited.[42]
The Wolf of Wall Street premiered at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on December 17, 2013,[43] followed by a wide release on December 25. Its original release date of November 15 was postponed after cuts were made to reduce the runtime
.[44] On October 22, it was reported that the XXXfilm was scheduled for a Christmas release. On October 29, Paramount officially confirmed that the film would be released on Christmas Day, with a running time of 165 minutes.
This was changed to 180 minutes on November 25.[48] The film was officially rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for "sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and some acts of violence.
" In the United Kingdom, the film received 18 certificates from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) for "very strong language, strong sex [and] XXX heavy drug use".
The film was banned in Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal and Zimbabwe due to its scenes depicting sex, drugs and excessive profanity, and additional scenes were cut in versions shown in India.
In Singapore, after cuts were made for a gay orgy scene as well as some profane or offensive language, the film was passed R21.
The release of The Wolf of Wall Street marked a turning point in cinema history when Paramount became the first major studio to distribute films to theaters exclusively in digital format, eliminating 35mm film entirely
. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues was the last Paramount production to include a 35mm film version.
The Wolf of Wall Street was released onXXX DVD and Blu-ray on March 25, 2014.[54] On January 27, 2014,
it was announced that a four-hour director's cut would be attached to the home release
.[55] Paramount Pictures and Red Granite Pictures later announced that the home release would include only the theatrical release. The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray was released on December 14, 2021.[57]
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The Wolf of Wall Street grossed $116.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $289 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $406.9 million;
[2] it is Scorsese's highest-grossing film.[58]
In the United States, the film ranked fifth in its first weekend with $19.4 million from 3,387 theaters, for a five-day total of $34.2 million.
The film grossed $13.2 million (down 27.9%) and $8.8 million (33%) in its second and third weekendsXXX, finishing fourth both times.
In Australia, it is the highest-grossing R-rated film, grossing $12.96 million.[62]
The performances of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor,
respectively. DiCaprio also won his second Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of reviews from 289 critics were positive
, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's consensus reads: "Funny, self-referential, and irreverent to a fault, The Wolf of Wall Street finds Martin Scorsese and XXXLeonardo DiCaprio at their most infectiously dynamic."
Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a rating of. Score of 75 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone named The Wolf of Wall Street the third best film of 2013, after 12 Years a Slave and Gravity.[65] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote:
"It is the best and most entertaining American film released this year." Richard Brody of The New Yorker called the film "Olympic", saying that it was Scorsese's last film. "It will rank among cinema'sXXX most awe-inspiring farewells."[67] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a B+, calling it
"a good Scorsese, not a great one."[68]
Dana Stevens of Slate was more critical, calling the film "epic in scale, claustrophobically narrow in scope". Marshall Fine of The Huffington Post argued thatXXX the story "wants us to care about the initially boring characters." ,
made duller by their delusions that they are interesting because they are loud.”[70] Some critics viewed the film as an irresponsible glorification of Belfort and his associates rather than a XXXcynical takedown. DiCaprio defended the film, arguing that it does not glorify the excessive lifestyle it depicts.
In 2016, the film was ranked number 78 on the BBC's list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century.[73] In 2017, Richard Brody named The Wolf of Wall Street the second best film of the 21st century so far, behind Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love.[74] In 2019,
Brody chose The Wolf of Wall Street as the best film ofXXX the 2000s
