![]() ![]() ![]() Belfort's shenanigans have inspired at least one previous film – 2000's Boiler Room – but here we're promised the full Scorsese operatic treatment. The trailer suggests a film that will be zip along like the cocaine freak we assume these Wall Street types to be all the insanity is certainly a little hard on innocent crustacean bystanders. Girls, yachts, and flagrant disregard for the value of folding currency all feature heavily. With a Goodfellas-ish voiceover, Leonardo DiCaprio sets the scene of for a quick spin through a lifestyle of comprehensive illegality – "we were making more money than we knew what to do with" he plays the real-life figure of Jordan Belfort, on whose book the film is based. Thumping Kanye West beats introduce Martin Scorsese's take on the Cosa Nostra of our time: the hard-partying, money-hoovering, morality-eschewing corporate trader.
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