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Title: The Wolf of Wall Street
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Duration: 129 min
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Country: United States
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Director: Martin Scorsese
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Script: Terence Winter (Book: Jordan Belfort)
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Year: 2013
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Synopsis: Young middle-class Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), a hard-partying, drug addicted New York stockbroker and owner of the company Stratton Oakmont, refuses to cooperate in a massive securities fraud case that involves widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration. Based on the autobiography by Jordan Belfort.
'Banking and Finance' in the film
In
the movie “The wolf of wall street” it is related to our subject
because that during the film is about buying and selling stocks at
high risk and that the protagonist sold as safe investments, because
of the high commissions they get for it.
We
want to highlight the following scenes
Black
Monday:
In
this scene is reflected one of the worst fall of the bag of history,
happened on October 19, 1987 and is known as Black Monday, our
protagonist Jordan R. Belfor, lost his job since that day his
Financial institution LF Rothschild, fell into bankruptcy
Selling
penny stocks as a safe investment:
In
this scene, Jordan R. Belfort, is looking for work as a stockbroker,
gets a job in a place that has nothing to do with Wall Street,
discover the penny stocks and huge margins that can be carried with
them , Then begins to work and the rest of employees are astonished
by their ability to sell shares, this will be a turning point in the
movie from here begins to plot your scam
The
Fraud:
In
this scene is reflected the creation of the company Stratton Oakmont
where Jordan R. Belfort started his scam, giving his clients
investments with high risk as safe, and manipulating the securities
market that was accused later.
Tax
Haven:
In
this scene is reflected the money laundering by Jordan R. Belfort
where with the illicit money of his fraud, goes to the tax amnesty
that offers a Swiss bank.
Personal commentary
If
I had to choose a single word to describe this film, I would say inmoral.
Some people may think the movie is an apology to the excess and
madness. Although
it is a sucession of excesses: sex, drugs and lots of money, I think
the movie is an essential film for the ones who love cinema. At
the end of the film everyone will want to be a broker like Jordan
Belford.
I would stand out the lack of ethics on the part of the protagonist. When he call ignorant people, financially speaking, with the false promise that may be made rich investing their savings. : I would also like to emphasize the greed of the protagonist, since after all offenses committed by him to get richer, were not sufficient; as seen in the phrase "the year earn $ 49 million, that pissed me off because not only reach 3 million a week", this shows the unbridled miserliness, for which he ended up in jail.
ReplyDeleteThe wolf of Wall Street is a movie without mechanisms or morals. It´s the movie that will allow us to know how the bag works secretly, the threads that determine everything, neither to understand this language. It is not also the movie that it is going to condemn to this type of personage who takes a dangerous life .Maybe Scorsese only has spoken about it all his life, about the power of seduction of the evil and about his seemed one with the beauty. In short: of the temptation that cause the money.
ReplyDeleteThe Wolf of Wall Street is a film where the low sensitivity that have some broker companies to society is demonstrated. Where the ultimate goal is profit. In the film the only thing that is illegal is the part where OPV emits a shoe company and in which the protagonist hidden shares for the stock price to rise. This action was why the protagonist entered the prison. The rest of the film, with the sale of "pink sheets" in the strict performance of securities is legal although reprehensible by the type of product to be sold to a population with little financial culture. This type of product recalls the case of “acciones preferentes” in Spain, although the shares are not as complex products. In conclusion, the film is shown as funsiona the business of broker, as the protagonist law skips the case of OPV and in the case of tax fraud.
ReplyDeleteTalking about 'The Wall Street Wolf', in my opinion one get two diferent points of views: on one side, how a person can 'easily' get a lot of money by investing in the market with some knowledge and a big personal iniciative, on the other hand, how this desire of earning a fortune can force a person to commit illegal things or even drive him crazy.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the film seemed too long, where many of the scenes disturbing and missed most from the financial point of view, so, It focused more on the personal life of the actor to in what really did in the world of finance.
ReplyDeleteThe wolf of the wall of the street is a film very related to the financial world. In this film we can see how the protagonist earns a lot of money in a short time which makes him become addicted to all kinds of drugs.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, you can see how the film presents fabulous motivational speeches, becoming a coach in its maximum power, the style "pursue your dreams", master of the sale, great commercial and seductive of the word.
This film reflects the life of excess and madness based on inmoral facts commmitted by the main character, who was a Wall Streer broker without any ethic thought who earns big amounts of money taking advantage of the confidence of his clients.
ReplyDeleteHe started buying securities at high risk and then selling them as safe investments preying on the high commissions they could get for them.
But life is not a fairy tale and every case of fraud is bound to get out and ends in a jail.