#Wolves of wall street movie#

HeвЂ™ll let the characters hang themselves with their own silk satin ropes. To understand how any group of monsters in menвЂ™s clothing-who not-so-hilariously hold the fate of the global economy in their Quaalude-shaking hands in this most recent example-can exist in our world, Scorsese has long found it best to not pass moral judgment with his camera or screenplay.

#Wolves of wall street movie#

However, just as Scorsese and author/co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi attempted to make the gangster movie from the вЂњsoldier in NapoleonвЂ™s armyвЂќ point of view with Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall StreetВ by its very pure, undiluted nature must view these repellently poor excuses for human beings on their own terms. It is completely understandable that a victim of Jordan BelfortвЂ™s ponderous narcissism, as well as her own father, would take justifiable offenseВ at this kind of peak behind the curtain of the unending golden roar in the land of bulls and bears. The media narrative of condemnation forming around this movie has become so intense that star Leonardo DiCaprio had to celebrate the New Year by doing some damage control when he sat down with DeadlineВ to explain, вЂњNot everyone is going to get it.вЂќ And frankly, I agree with DiCaprioвЂ™s overall summation about the movie being a darkly comic (and horrifying) attempt to gain insight into why these people live the way that they do. And while the legendary auteur is no stranger to disapproving criticism-the religious outrage over The Last Temptation of ChristВ buried that 1988 film-it is doubtful that even he could have expected a screenwriting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to purportedly come up to him after a screening at the AcademyвЂ™s Samuel Goldwyn Theater and shout, вЂњShame on you! Disgusting!вЂќВ Even Paramount Pictures could only downplay the incident by stating that initial accounts that this was screamed at the Raging Bullfilmmaker were exaggerated-it wasnвЂ™t technically a scream. Decadent, excessive, and lascivious, The Wolf of Wall Streethas whipped up just as many fans as it has moral majority naysayers, ready to tut-tut the 71-year-old Martin Scorsese for making such a dirty movie. This movie is exactly what it needs to be, and that is why so many are struggling to keep it at anything other than armвЂ™s length. Yet, there is something about this picture that makes the fierce cocaine-fueled frenzy surrounding it seem well earnedвЂ¦if misplaced. The Wolf of Wall StreetВ is a good movie itвЂ™s probably even a great one.