Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is among the most bludgeoning-if not the most bludgeoning-films ever to be granted an R rating. Honestly, I wish I weren’t still writing it, because there’s just not much more I can say here. He does it in such an outrageously obscene way that he makes infamous greedmeister Gordon Gekko (from the 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street) look merely like a giggling greenhorn in comparison.Īnd he makes me honestly wonder why you’re still reading this review. Jordan Belfort blows the lid off just about every jar of horribleness a scriptwriter could ever conceive of. We see her physically resist, then see the couple having intercourse, still obviously against Naomi’s wishes. Dialogue also repeatedly references virtually every possible crude, vulgar and obscene slang word for the male and female sexual anatomy.īelfort essentially rapes his wife. We hear references to incest (Danny is married to a first cousin), the importance of masturbation as a stress reliever, jokes about men performing oral sex on other men, a conversation between Belfort and his father about women shaving their genitals, a reference to a pornographic magazine, a story about a woman in the office who performed oral sex on every male employee, and multiple comments about using prostitutes and having to get penicillin shots after contracting STDs. The film goes so far as fully showing a man’s erect penis (a prosthesis, according to press reports).
There are multiple scenes of full-frontal female nudity an S&M sequence an orgy composed entirely of gay male couples (in which we see explicit sexual movements) multiple heterosexual sex scenes (again with explicit movements and sounds), some of them mingling drugs and private body parts and an office party that features yet another group of topless strippers and prostitutes. Sexual fondling becomes assault when it is done to an unconscious woman at one point. A post-orgy scene revels in the revelers’ nudity. A multitude of sex acts with mostly naked prostitutes are also performed in public, as well as on an airplane. It is also given screen time in settings that are public, and within the confines of a moving vehicle (involving the driver). (But it’s an admittedly difficult tally to be dogmatic about since sometimes it’s hard to tell when one ends and another begins.)Īmong many, many, many other things, oral sex is graphically merged with other sex acts involving a threesome. Never mind that Belfort is now on the take-down to-do list of straight-laced FBI agent Patrick Denham.īecause the only thing that matters to Jordan Belfort is making one dollar more.īy my count, there are 22 sex scenes in this movie. Never mind that Belfort’s ravenous, cavernous greed torpedoes his first marriage and will ultimately crater his second. Never mind that Belfort and Co.’s cunningly calculated efforts to bilk investors are utterly, totally and completely illegal. Soon, he and his right-hand man, Danny Azoff, as well as a cadre of swagger-filled, conscience-free young turks are literally rolling in cash-not to mention having sex on piles of it and snorting cocaine through it. So Belfort hatches a vision that will make him and the young predators he quickly recruits millionaires many times over: peddling profitable penny stocks to rich dupes, then raking in the commissions.īelfort’s appetite for riches knows no bounds. Though the miniscule stock sales there represent only a small fraction of the money he’d been handling before, the margin-the percentage commission Belfort will actually be paid-is massive. Unemployed and feeling like he’s been mauled by a bear, Belfort stumbles into a small-time penny-stock trading company on Long Island. The Wolf of Wall Street, based on Jordan Belfort’s real-life memoir of the same name, fleshes out (quite literally, as it turns out) what happens next. 19, 1987) wipes a then-mindboggling 508 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average … and takes Belfort’s nascent career right down the drain with it. But his tenure at the prestigious, old-school Rothschild brokerage has barely begun when Black Monday (Oct. In 1987, the 22-year-old lands on Wall Street, hungry to reap the fortune he believes the stock market holds for him. Jordan Belfort is feeling bullish about his future.
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