Review: The Wolf of Wall Street
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-'The Wolf of Wall Street' Info:
-Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Jon Berthnal, Kyle Chandler, Christin Milioti, Rob Reiner and Mathew McConaughey.
-Based on: 'The Wolf of Wall Street' by Jordan Belfort.
-Studio(s): Red Granite Pictures, Appian Way Productions and Paramount Pictures.
-Directed by: Martin Scorsese.
-Written by: Terrence Winter.
-Music by: Robbie Robertson and Howard Shore.
-Running Time: 179 minutes.
-Budget: $ 100,000,000.
-Box Office: -Domestic(US): $ 116,870,000.**
-Foreign: $ 272,700,000.**
-Ratings: -IMdb: 8.5/10.
-Rotten Tomatoes: 76%.
-Metacritic: 75%.
-PERSONAL RATING: 8.5/10.
**Still Showing in Theaters Across The World.
-'The Wolf of Wall Street' Trailer:
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| Official 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Poster. |
One of the most outrageous and over the top
movies of 2013, if not in movie history, 'The Wolf of Wall Street' can be
easily described in three words: bold, outrageous, and successful.
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| "Leonardo DiCaprio". |
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| "Jonah Hill". |
Taking place between the late 1980s and early
1990s in New York City, young 'Jordan Belfort'(Leonardo DiCaprio) has been
dedicating his life working relentlessly to achieve the American Dream (making
it big and becoming filthy rich in the financial services). But when 'Jordan''s debut on
Wall Street crumbles, he is able to find a work at a small penny-stock firm.
Soon enough 'Jordan' successfully utilizes his skills of deception to makes
tons of money and move on to a bigger vision: setting up his own trading firm
with his buddies such as 'Donnie Azoff'(Jonah Hill) and earning millions. However, when
seeking of wealth, pleasure and women goes too extreme, 'Jordan' will
suddenly feel everything slipping away and his life changing and crumbling,
especially when FBI agent 'Patrick Denham'(Kyle Chandler) becomes hot on his
tail. Other main characters include 'Naomi Lapaglia'(Margot Robbie), 'Jordan''s
first wife 'Teresa Petrillo'(Christin Milioti), 'Jordan''s first boss 'Mark
Hanna'(Mathew McConaughey), a courier 'Brad Bodnick'(Jon Bernthal), 'Jordan''s
father 'Max Belfort'(Rob Reiner), corrupt banker 'Jean-Jacques Saurel'(Jean Dujardin) and 'Naomi''s aunt 'Emma'(Joanna Lumley).
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| "Margot Robbie". |
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| "Jon Bernthal". |
It is important for you to know first that
this R-Rated movie is loosely based on the real life memoir of a man named "Jordan
Belfort", where many real life characters names and minor changes in the story
were made. For those who aren't aware this is the fifth collaboration between
"Martin Scorsese" and "Leonardo DiCaprio" after 'Gangs
of New York', 'The Aviator', 'The Departed', and 'Shutter
Island'. At first glimpse at the trailers, many thought of it being a dark
comedy filled with grime. Still like the previous movies, both "Scorsese" and "DiCaprio" acheive another
cinematic, narrative, and acting masterpiece. Even with all the craziness and
outrageousness of the whole movie premise, the director and actor manages to
show us the craziness of the American culture and that time period(and even nowadays), by
maintaining the necessary emotional and character development in the various themes depicted throughout the entirety of the movie.
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| "Mathew McConaughey". |
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| "Kyle Chandler". |
This movie needed a director that was
able to merge the raunchy story telling and dialogue with the sincerity, emotional yet controversial story. And who better to achieve it other than the
brilliant "Martin Scorsese", who performed a similar task in the
widely acclaimed 1990 movie 'Godfellas'. Writer "Terence
Winter" is most known for his work on TV series 'The Sopranos' and 'Boardwalk
Empire', where both series that require the ability to perform such tasks. The eccentric
and foul-mouthed screenplay was so crazy but managed to remain funny yet moving
at the same time, showing in an embedded way the philosophy of America's
culture of greed. Moreover, the usage of narrative voice overs to show the story
from the perspective and language of 'Belfort' was an effective tool
to be used. Composers "Robbie Robertson"('Shutter Island') and
"Howard Shore"('The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug') provide
a solid score, with the movie employing popular songs of that era such as
"Billy Joel"'s 'Movin' Out'.
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| "Leonardo DiCaprio" and "Jonah Hill". |
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| "Margot Robbie" and "Leonardo DiCaprio". |
'Wolf of Wall Street' is an extremely long
movie. The running time extends to 179 minutes, which is approximately 3 hours
and 19 minutes. For many this could be very problematic, but for those who enjoys
these kinds of movies the time will pass by eventually since the movie does
provide many enjoyable moments. The middle part is the most exciting part of
the movie since the audience kind of settle in the life that 'Jordan' has built
for himself and the environment of the company. The first half compromises of showing us how everything came to be, while the third half provides us the
implications of what happened during the middle part. The most favorite
sequences of the movie are 'Jordan' and 'Mark Hanna''s lunch, the pool party where 'Jordan' meets 'Naomi', the eccentric parties at the workplace, and the most wild one 'Jordan' and
'Donnie' getting high on the plane. Trivia news, the movie
broke the record for the number of times the word 'Fuck' was used in a Feature
Film. The word is used 506 times, whilst the previous record of 453 times was for "Spike Lee"'s 1999 film 'Summer of Sam'.
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| "Leonardo DiCaprio" and "Mathew McConaughey". |
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| "Leonardo DiCaprio". |
Another excellent factor that helped the
movie was its exceptional ensemble led by one of the most prominent actors of our
generation. Interesting thing is that "Leonardo DiCaprio" went to
great lengths to play the role and was following the movie's pre-production process for years. Hiis
balanced and charismatic performance surely deserves an Oscar Nomination as
well as a Golden Globe win for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or
Comedy. The second star of the movie was "Jonah Hill", who also
accepted a minimal $60,000 pay for this role (much less than
"DiCaprio" $ 10 million paycheck) in order to play 'Donnie Azoff',
where he further proved his ability to function in all types of comedies. Both
"Hill" and "DiCaprio" maintained their high performance
needed at all times. "Margot Robbie" and
"Jon Bernthal" provided breakthrough performances, while "Mathew
McConaughey" yielded a memorable comedic and impactful cameo appearance.
"Kyle Chandler" proves reliable as a supporting actor, same goes for
both "Christin Milioti" and "Rob Reiner". Appearances from "Jean Dujardin" and "Joanna Lumley" was admired.
In the end, 'Wolf of Wall Street' was able to
deliver and proved to be a major contender in the award season winning
the Golden Globe for Best Picture-Musical and Comedy and being nominated for
various main categories at the Oscars.
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| 'The Wolf of Wall Street'. |
-Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Jon Berthnal, Kyle Chandler, Christin Milioti, Rob Reiner and Mathew McConaughey.
-Based on: 'The Wolf of Wall Street' by Jordan Belfort.
-Studio(s): Red Granite Pictures, Appian Way Productions and Paramount Pictures.
-Directed by: Martin Scorsese.
-Written by: Terrence Winter.
-Music by: Robbie Robertson and Howard Shore.
-Running Time: 179 minutes.
-Budget: $ 100,000,000.
-Box Office: -Domestic(US): $ 116,870,000.**
-Foreign: $ 272,700,000.**
-Ratings: -IMdb: 8.5/10.
-Rotten Tomatoes: 76%.
-Metacritic: 75%.
-PERSONAL RATING: 8.5/10.
**Still Showing in Theaters Across The World.
-'The Wolf of Wall Street' Trailer:
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