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“The Wolf of Wall Street” is an exceptional masterpiece presented by the golden team of Scorsese and DiCaprio.

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“The Wolf of Wall Street” is an exceptional masterpiece presented by the golden team of Scorsese and DiCaprio.

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“The Wolf of Wall Street” synopsis

Jordan Belfort, who dreams of getting rich quickly, takes a job at a Wall Street securities firm. However, on the day he makes his debut as a trader, "Black Monday" occurs and he loses his job. Afterwards, he hires Donnie and a drug dealer whom he met at a restaurant, establishes a stock company, and acquires a huge amount of wealth by selling "penny (scum) stocks" worth less than a dollar to rich people using skillful storytelling. Jordan suddenly becomes a charismatic figure on Wall Street, and spends his earnings on luxury cars, drugs, and prostitutes, and goes on a frenzy of partying.


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Welcome to the Jungle - Welcome to the crazy world of New York!



``The world of investment is like a jungle. It's a bull (up market). It's a bear (down market). It's full of danger.'' (From the opening narration)


In such a world, Jordan Belfort (born 1962) was a man who was nicknamed the Wolf. In the 1990s, he is a former stockbroker and entrepreneur (currently a management consultant) who served 22 months in prison after causing a major incident known as the ``Stratton-Oakmont Fraud'' and selling out his business associates to the FBI. The Wolf of 2013 is an extraordinary masterpiece that depicts the extraordinary life of a man who repeatedly committed investment fraud and became the darling of Wall Street in New York for a few years in a high-voltage that almost seems strange. The Wolf of Wall Street.”


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The director was Martin Scorsese, who was 71 years old (!) at the time and was too tough and mischievous to be considered a master craftsman. In a style similar to " Goodfellas " (1990) and " Casino " (1995), it depicts the frenzy of the "Money Gang", the stockbrokers who attacked Wall Street, and runs for three hours with unparalleled energy. Wear.


``The ecology of men who are simply stupid, cheerful, crazy, have no moral fiber, and are like beasts with broken instincts,'' is a line in the review of ``Goodfellas'' written by the author on this site, but the book Although the work is similar to that, the driving force is not blood or violence, but money and sexual desire, so it has a more upper-class, flirtatious ``frivolity'' that makes it stand out.


Starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Scorsese's partner is Robert, who has released masterpieces such as `` Mean Streets '' (1973), `` Taxi Driver '' (1976), `` Raging Bull '' (1980), and `` The King of Comedy '' (1983).・De Niro is in the lead (9 films in total, including 2019's `` The Irishman '', when they teamed up for the first time in 24 years), followed by DiCaprio, the new partner of the 21st century.


Starting with 2002's `` Gangs of New York '', ``The Wolf of Wall Street'' is the fifth collaboration between the two, following `` The Departed ' ' (2004), `` The Departed'' (2006), and ``Shutter Island '' (2009). Until then, DiCaprio had been somewhat in the shadow of De Niro, but in this film, he plays a legendary genius con artist in `` Catch Me If You Can' ' (2002/Director: Steven Spielberg). Scorsese's unique lightheartedness and Scorsese's sporty energy finally mesh perfectly, creating a great chemical reaction that is completely different from the films starring De Niro.




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