The Wolf of Wall Street.
Director: The movies is directed by Martin Scorsese, who also directed “The last
temptation of Christ”, “Mean streets” , “The Aviator” and much more.
Martin was born in
Queens, New York, in a medium wealth family. He graduated in Cinema, in the New
York University, at the age of 22.
His first movie was “Mean
streets”, produced in 1973, which got a box office of 3 million dollars.
Also Martin Scorsese
is considerate one of the most important directors of this century.
Main Characters: Jordan Belfort is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and the vice-president of
his company, Donnie Azoff, is played by Jonah Hill.
Leonardo DiCaprio was
born in Hollywood, California. DiCaprio started his acting career in the
commercials when he was still 5 years old. DiCaprio´s first movie was a low
budget movie called “Critters 3”. His first real success movie was
“Romeo+Juliet”, which got an office box of 147,554,999 dollars.
Jonah Hill was born
in Los Angeles. Jonah started his acting career in college, where he wrote his
own plays and played them in the “Black and White” bar, near New York. Jonah´s
first movie was called “I <3 Huckabees”. The first movie he is known about
is called “Accepted”, which got an office box of 38,505,009 dollars.
Plot: The movie tells the story of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker, who loses
his job in a Wall Street firm, then he starts working in a boiler room
brokerage firm, which is specialized in penny stocks (“common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar
a share.”), when Jordan starts working there he starts getting a small
fortune, because of the high commissions and his style. Then he befriends with
Donnie Azoff and they start their own company, which is called “Stratton
Oakmont”, in no time they start to get lots of money, and with the money comes
a lot of power, and with great power comes great responsibility.
My Opinion: I didn´t like the movie so much. The movie is very repetitive, I mean,
it´s got like 10 minutes of story the rest is just drugs and sex, but, it´s
very interesting seeing how they got so much money and it´s really cool to see
how money changes people.
Did you know? : The movie is actually based on real events.