Wolf Of Wall Street Satire

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street is a film which was released on December 25, 2013 and managed to make a grand impact on all who ventured to see it. Director Martin Scorsese and writer Jordan Belfort were able to manipulate the story of Belfort’s life through extravagant, lavish, and relatively vile acts; which, in the movie seem to vicariously satisfy many viewers unknowing needs for a crime-comedy movie with a degree of intellectualism and semi-tonal black comedy. In my opinion, Wolf of Wall Street was able to conquer the ever growing population of businessmen with a quintessential and satirical analysis of their respective lifestyles. However, some people categorize The Wolf of Wall Street as propaganda or dislike it due
to its degree of decadence and immorality whilst being unable to cope with the undeniable fact that it’s our reality.
Throughout the piece there is a slew of exuberant and lavish acts which in reality would’ve directed a large amount of attention towards him. Also in an interview with slate magazine, Terence Winter, who assisted in writing the screenplay, explains the use of this technique as: “You are being sold the Jordan Belfort story by Jordan Belfort, and he is a very unreliable narrator.” In addition to the activities throughout the movie that were used to sell Jordan Belfort, the fact that director Martin Scorsese promoted the use of improvisation in his film only supports the fact that he wasn’t intending for many of the showings to be accurate or have a certain tact. The movie was Jordan Belfort effectively scamming the audience and then letting them know at the end to point fault at the people calling them dumb.
Furthermore, Scorsese let Leo DiCaprio have full control over the character in pinnacle instances which, in turn, only proves my inference that he wasn’t intending to display a certain form of “correctness”.
By “correctness” I mean that while the movie is a true story large parts of it are completely embellished which only adds to the satirical aspects of the movie. Some of the blatantly embellished and improvised scenes are when Belfort takes the company for a business trip and they all sing “Insane in the Brain” by B-Real on a yacht and when Jordan is struggling to get down the stairs in front of a country club after taking an enormous number of Quaaludes. The truth behind the business trip on the yacht and the “Quaaludes incident” is that they both really happened and were even expanded on in a slate article written by David Haglund titled “How Accurate Is The Wolf of Wall Street”. However, they both were a product of Belfort’s sale as he was able to make those focal points in the movie due to the assistance of Leonardo DiCaprio’s excellent acting and improvisation. Belfort affirms the fact in an interview when Haglund writes “He did an enormous amount of drugs—including, yes, Lemmon 714s—employed the services of countless prostitutes”. Nevertheless, even after reading both the slate article and watching a more in-depth 60 minutes interview by Liz Haye they all came to the same conclusion that both of those scenes did not happen with the same intensity in reality as it
did the movie.
The aforementioned information about Belfort’s lifestyle is exactly why people don’t like the movie. This can be seen in the article “What Really Bothered Me About ‘Wolf of Wall Street’” written by Huffington post writer Bizzy Emerson. Emerson writes “Wolf is glamorous, and although it seems outrageous, it’s hard to believe that it really deviates so far from the truth”.
Belfort showed the world what he did, he made the highs even higher which made for a great movie and ingenious idea as it also enabled him to pay off his some of his debt. Yet, there are some individuals who fail to see that despite the fact that although it is based on a true story, it is very loosely based on the story, and, in that the context is correct but the actions aren’t. An instance that some may take to heart is the scene when Belfort and his wife have sex on top of a bed that’s completely covered with money. In the scene the money is completely fake and more for the shock factor if anything as they purposely placed the camera above them to get a full body shot in addition to the money too. The necessity placed upon the scenes can be seen by how Margot Robbie, the actress who played Belfort’s second wife, Naomi Lapaglia, received several bruises and minor papercuts in the scene, all for the “wow” effect.
When one attributes their detestation towards the film due to its vulgarity they tend to miss the entire point of the movie.
Those exact scenes to which she’s referring to enabled viewers to see the depth of his greed and immorality. Those scenes are a quintessential part of Belfort and the movie. In reality, no one is likely to do these things but, it’s still a very clear fact that people are this shallow, this greedy, and this misogynistic; at the end of the day the world is truly just as shallow, greed, and misogynistic but it’s the barriers that’ve been put in place that prevent us from doing so. In going full circle this is the black comedy that we see. This is what we crave but don’t act on. It just took the demonstration to your eyes rather than having it sneak pass your nose in day to day
living.
Jordan Belfort’s book is the basis for The Wolf of Wall Street. When watching the movie, one must think like Belfort because when one takes a superficial point of view chances are that they may miss the actual point of the movie. However, in spite of the fact that Belfort is able to create an entertaining movie loosely based on his life, many people may dislike the movie for its components. I consider The Wolf of Wall Street to be his final and biggest “scheme” where all who paid to view the movie are dumb, but, it resolves a very intricate, satisfying, and fiendish curiosity that he instills in the viewer when they’re able to comprehend his final score.
Overall the movie is without a doubt controversial. The movie reeks of humanities undenounced qualms of sex drugs and money to which many turn a blind eye to. The Wolf of Wall Street brings the worlds business underbelly to the couch of modern America for all to see, revel, and serve as judge and jury while we watch the rise of greatness and the fall from grace. It conquers black comedy which makes light of themes that are generally considered serious or taboo and promotes it too. Nevertheless, despite the meticulous preparation to which Scorsese prepared for he enabled America to view the life of another and Belfort allowed himself one final scam. He allowed himself to immortalize his schemes as a hallmark in cinema, fraud, and literature all in on cohesive
Consequently, the tropes to which The Wolf of Wall Street can and will make it the poster child for black comedy.