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
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
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