He counsels taking as much cocaine as possible.īefore Belfort can put this advice to use, though, the Black Monday stock-market crash wipes out his job. The dirty secret of stock-trading, Hanna tells Belfort, is that while the clients are only getting rich on paper, the brokers are getting cash-rich on commissions. We meet Belfort (DiCaprio) arriving on Wall Street in 1987, and being quickly wised up by a top broker named Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey, taking total possession of the movie in a very brief appearance). The story is true-life, drawn from a memoir by Jordan Belfort, a stock-market shark of unapologetically skeezy inclinations and prodigious appetites. And with Leonardo DiCaprio giving an explosive performance at the center of the film-sometimes in long, rabble-rousing orations-it's hard not to get caught up in these people's demented exuberance. Scorsese shows us bad men doing very bad things-ruining lives, treating women like dirt-and declines to take a moral stand about what we're seeing. Frantically edited down from four hours to three, and now arriving at the last moment for Oscar consideration, The Wolf of Wall Street is hilarious and appalling and, by the end, a little exhausting. Martin Scorsese's new movie hits the ground running with a montage of dwarf tossing, sex grappling and extreme drug behavior of a sort I don't believe I've ever seen on-screen before.
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