1. "The Wolf of Wall Street," inequality and the Gatsby myth - Salon.com
Dec 28, 2013 · DiCaprio's performance is feverish but controlled, capturing the mania of a guy who's hopelessly addicted to sex, drugs and money and who ...
Leonardo DiCaprio plays yet another Gatsby in Martin Scorsese's dizzying, allegorical "Wolf of Wall Street"
2. Essay: The Wolf Of Wall Street - It's All About Us - PopcornReel.com
Jan 24, 2014 · In our TMZ culture people are famous not for the good they do but the notoriety they gain. The goody-two-shows philanthropist gets little ...
Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama is squarely about the time we live in now and since humankind began: greed, avarice and selfishness. No newsflash, but it's how we've got this far, or at least how we've survived. It's how many of us get to the top. It's always been about us, more than it has ever been about Ivan Boesky, Charles Keating, Jeffrey Skilling, Michael Milken, Kenneth Lay or Bernie Madoff, to name a few. We -- or the media -- give these criminals colorful or colloquial names, thereby glorifying and affirming their favored or admired status in popular culture. It's our blatant approval. In return very few of them even get to go to country club prisons much less jail.
3. The Wolf of Wall Street – review | Drama films | The Guardian
Jan 18, 2014 · Based on the self-aggrandising memoirs of convicted stock market trader Jordan Belfort, this three-hour orgy of greed, indulgence and swearing
An unlovable central character is just the main flaw in a slick but wearying saga of a stockbroker's quest for riches, writes Mark Kermode
4. Have you watched The Wolf of Wall Street? - FQMom
Jan 22, 2014 · Wealth created here can be intoxicating and can lead people astray. There's a thin line between greed and ambition, especially when you lose grip of your ...
My article last week Why are we poor? Why are we happy? hit a nerve among the readers. It reached around 16,000 hits after a few days and I received interesting feedback via FB, Disqus, email and text. While most of the readers got the point when I said “Poverty is a mindset.” some didn’t quite get […]
5. The Lasting Power of “The Wolf of Wall Street” | The New Yorker
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Anything that’s any good seems to be about pretty much everything. “Inside Llewyn Davis” isn’t a documentary about the folk-music scene; it’s about the existential tricks of time—the terrible, subtle blow that knocks a person from the vanguard to the sidelines, from the promise of youth to the nostalgia of age in a single moment. I found myself thinking about my colleague Adam Gopnik’s recent piece in the magazine about Duke Ellington—about how it must have felt for Ellington and the other luminaries of swing, around 1941, when they found out about the young modernists up at Minton’s, whose music, soon known as bebop, made the big-band sound an instant relic.
6. The Wolf of Wall Street: why its accuracy muzzles its bite
Jan 15, 2014 · Its portrayal of bad-behaving bankers sticks so slavishly to Jordan Belfort's memoir that Martin Scorsese's movie squanders its satiric ambitions.
Its portrayal of bad-behaving bankers sticks so slavishly to Jordan Belfort's memoir that Martin Scorsese's movie squanders its satiric ambitions
7. The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) directed by Rowland V. Lee • Reviews, film ...
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A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
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The Wolf of Wall Street corners the market in copper and then sells short, making a fortune and ruining the fiancé of his maid, Gert. Out of spite, Gert informs The Wolf that his wife has been cheating on him with his partner, Tyler. As revenge, The Wolf deliberately ruins himself and Tyler in the market and then walks out on his wife.
