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Dec 25, 2013 · Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" is abashed and shameless, exciting and exhausting, disgusting and illuminating; it's one of the most entertaining films ever made about loathsome men. Its star Leonardo DiCaprio has compared it to the story of the Roman emperor Caligula, and he's not far off the mark.
Intoxicating rise-and-fall story is full of sex and drugs. Read Common Sense Media's The Wolf of Wall Street review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Martin Scorsese
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Paramount Pictures
- Great Satire: Belfort Is Corrupted by Wall Street
- Glorifies Belfort’s Lifestyle: Leonardo DiCaprio Brings Lovable Charm to Belfort
- Great Satire: It’S About The Unrealistic Fantasy of Richness
- Glorifies Belfort’s Lifestyle: A Life of Excess Seems Like Fun
- Great Satire: That Excess Eventually Becomes Belfort’s Downfall
- Glorifies Belfort’s Lifestyle: It Ignores The People He Affected
- Great Satire: It Shows How Easy He Got Off
- Glorifies Belfort’s Lifestyle: Stratton Oakmont Is Depicted as An Empire
- Great Satire: It Holds A Mirror Up to The Audience
- Glorifies Belfort’s Lifestyle: “Greed Is Good” Message
At the beginning of The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort is an all-round good guy who wants to make it in finance so that he can provide for his family. It’s the Wall Street culture that corrupts him. He scams people to make a quota. He swears constantly because everyone around him does the same. He’s instructed by Mark Hanna (better known by hi...
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most charming and lovable leading men working today. And to his credit, he’s so charismatic that it’s hard for him to turn it off. Still, his portrayal of Jordan Belfort has an undeniable charm that is completely unearned. Anyone who knows anything about Belfort wouldn’t go into the movie wanting to like him, but DiC...
Throughout the movie, it’s made clear that Belfort doesn’t come from money. He grew up in a middle-class environment, raised by two accountants. At first, he’s not a rich guy who wants to get richer (although he does become that); he’s a regular guy who wants to become rich. RELATED: The Wolf Of Wall Street: 10 Hidden Details You Completely Missed ...
Jordan Belfort and his associates lead lives of excess in The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s not enough for an office party to consist of drinks and a few balloons. They need a literal parade of debauchery to have fun. And frankly, the movie does make that lifestyle look like a lot of fun. Viewers don’t shake their heads at the absurd levels of excess i...
As fun as the cocaine and casual sex might look at the beginning of the movie, Belfort’s many vices take their toll on his health — both physically and mentally — by the end of it. His eyes look vacant when he’s enjoying the services of a prostitute and his drug usage eventually peaks, causing a rapid psychological decline. The movie teaches that a...
Plenty of real people were affected by Belfort’s scams. He didn’t con ultra-wealthy banks and airlines out of their money like an earlier biopic subject played by DiCaprio, Frank Abagnale, Jr.; he conned regular working-class people out of their hard-earned paychecks and savings. But anyone who watched The Wolf of Wall Streetwouldn’t know that, bec...
When the FBI finally manages to gather enough evidence against Belfort to arrest him at the end of The Wolf of Wall Street, he gets off incredibly easy. He buys his way into a minimum-security prison for rich people that’s basically a country club, where he gets to play tennis all day. RELATED: Martin Scorsese's 10 Most Suspenseful Sequences Before...
When Jesse Pinkman asked Walter White if he was in the meth business or the money business, Walt famously replied that he was in “the empire business.” Jordan Belfort adheres to the same principle. He doesn’t want Stratton Oakmont to be a successful business; he wants it to be an empire to rival Caesar’s. And the movie takes that unscrupulous ambit...
In the final moments of The Wolf of Wall Street, Belfort gives a seminar on sales using his “Sell me this pen” technique and is bitterly disappointed by the results. The final shot pulls up on the entranced faces of Belfort’s audience. This is Scorsese holding a mirror up to his own audience, particularly the viewers who would accuse him of glamori...
The quote “Greed is good” is actually from a different Wall Street movie, Oliver Stone’s aptly titled Wall Street, but the ambition and power hunger of Gordon Gekko can be seen all over Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street. He doesn’t say, “Greed is good,” but he says something with a very similar sentiment: “I have been a rich man and I have ...
Parents need to know that Wolf is an art house drama about species dysphoria, a real-life disorder in which people believe they're animals. It has adult themes, nudity, and distressing scenes, and the overall tone is dark (with occasional mild humor) and the pace fairly slow.
- Nathalie Biancheri
- Kat Halstead
- Focus Features
Feb 19, 2021 · Mike Nichols' 1994 film Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson as a yuppie-turned-werewolf, remains one of the most delightfully baffling horror movies ever.
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Funny, self-referential, and irreverent to a fault, The Wolf of Wall Street finds Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio at their most infectiously dynamic. Read Critics Reviews
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