This. 100%.
Wolf of wall street gave 0 insight into anything.
Boiler room is underrated. Ben Affleck and vin diesel were great in it.
More movies like The Big Short?
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Wolf of wall street gave 0 insight into anything.
Boiler room is underrated. Ben Affleck and vin diesel were great in it.
MalikX
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Come on bruh.....the opening scene of Wolf of Wall Street is Belfort doing coke from a woman's asscrack.
It's not a serious movie. When I saw this thread, that'd what I thought OP wanted. Margin Call and Too Big To Fail are good movies about the 2008 crisis. Social Network and Steve Jobs (Fassbender), both by Sorkin, are very intellectual films about SV/Tech. Woman in Gold is one I watched the other week about the Nazi occupation in Vienna and it was very good. I wouldn't compare Wolf of Wall Street to any of those. If that's the kind of movie he wants to watch, then he's not looking for informative movies with a lot of insight, he's looking for off the wall shyt.
AnonymityX1000
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Since it has yet to be mentioned peep Wall Street. Gordon Gekko is the original bad guy of this shyt.
An ashy lil fap hand
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I've seen both of those. You aint lyin.
Yea, I think you are confusing content and tone (and I'm going to ignore how you keep shoehorning Sorkin films into the conversation). The Big Short is "serious" in tone, Wolf of Wall Street is the more "serious" movie (whatever that means).
The Big Short is everything you expect a Hollywood film about the 2008 financial crises to be. A topical, self-important, fairly routine movie from the guy who previously directed Anchorman and Step Brothers. The film's biggest storytelling device--having celebrities breakdown extremely complex financial products and ideas--is an oh so clever (as in, boy Adam McKay, aren't you clever) way of disguising McKay's contempt for his audience's intelligence. The film holds your hand and guides you through the events and how you should feel about them. It allows an unsophisticated audience to walk out and casually wax about "moral hazard..." and say things like, "oh you know those wall street guys..." and "umm well, government regulators..." It's a movie for people who take themselves too seriously, but it isn't a serious movie. That's not to say it's a bad movie though (the material in fascinating, but covered better in the Michael Lewis book).
See.
Wolf of Wall Street does none of that. Sniffing cocaine off of a hooker, excellent. Smoking crack with Jonah Hill, word. Launching midgets into a target, keep it coming. Jordan Belfort is a greedy, sex-obsessed, drug addicted master salesman who is unapologetic and without remorse. He doesn't view his clients as victims (because they aren't), he doesn't view his actions as immoral and Scorsese doesn't hold your hand and lead you to any such conclusion. He doesn't walk his audience through their feelings and guilt, he leaves it up to them to interpret what's happening on screen. There is no great moral lesson and in that, the film says more about Wall Street personalities and culture than The Big Short could ever hope to say.
Compared the above videos to the ending of Wolf. The last scene is brilliant. The audience is looking back at you, wondering how you've interpreted the events, wondering where we go from here.
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