Instead, Scorsese and Winter carry on in shot after shot, displaying dozens of barely clothed or naked female bodies whose not-so-private parts are meticulously waxed or shaven. Scorsese and Winter had plenty of creative freedom in their treatment of Jordan’s story all that was needed to show how marginalized women were on the Wall Street trading floors of the 1980s and 90s were a few key scenes featuring prostitutes and parades of strippers. Interchangeable Barbie-doll figures, hookers and strippers serve simply as props for the male protagonists as they carry on with their debauched antics, drawing plenty of laughs from the audience. “Wolf” fails to say anything interesting about the women who inhabit Jordan’s world. Unfortunately, by using women as little more than playthings throughout the film, the creators of “Wolf” have given in. While “Wolf” is based on a true story and real characters, there is a fine line between accurately depicting the rampant objectification of women in Jordan’s world and succumbing to it. What’s received far less attention than merited, however, is the film’s portrayal of women. The film is also a comedy - albeit a black comedy - that invites its audience to laugh and even marvel at the crass frat-boy antics on display. For one thing, the victims of Jordan’s fraud - i.e., those who spent their life savings on worthless penny stocks or lost big when Jordan manipulated stock prices - are absent from the film. While critics have largely praised the film, it’s drawn some heat for glorifying the exploitative, hedonistic lifestyle it depicts. Along the way, he and his colleagues indulge in vast amounts of sex, drugs and reckless behavior - all of which the film forcefully foregrounds. Jordan, a master salesman who develops a cultlike following, amasses a fortune by pushing questionable stocks to investors with hard-sell tactics before graduating to stock manipulation and money laundering. Told in part through voice-over narration by DiCaprio, it shows Jordan’s rise from small-time penny-stock trader on Long Island to the founder of Stratton Oakmont, one of the largest brokerage firms on Wall Street in the 1990s - all by the time he is 26 years old.
The room just went dead silent and I froze," she said.Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” tracks the journey of real-life finance scam artist Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio). And then I scream, 'Fuck you!' And that's not in the script at all. "Another part of my brain clicks and I just go, Whack! I hit him in the face.
So when she was told to come over and kiss DiCaprio, in character as the unstable Jordan Belfort, Robbie did the opposite. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance, just take it," Robbie said.
She had to make her mark in the next scene, an argument between the couple: "In my head I was like, 'You have literally 30 seconds left in this room and if you don't do something impressive nothing will ever come of it. Robbie recounted the moment in an interview with Harper's Bazaar back in 2015, where she barely got a word in during an improvised scene between herself and a "phenomenal" DiCaprio. "She clinched her part in The Wolf of Wall Street during our first meeting - by hauling off and giving Leonardo DiCaprio a thunderclap of a slap on the face, an improvisation that stunned us all," he wrote. Scorsese tried to answer the question on what Robbie is like by waxing lyrical about her "comedic genius" and "all-bets-off feistiness," reminiscent of classic Hollywood actresses.īut what really convinced Scorsese that Robbie was right for her part in The Wolf of Wall Street was her "unique audacity" - which, well, basically means her giving Leonardo DiCaprio one across the face. In the case of Australian Margot Robbie, the actress was praised by director Martin Scorsese, the director of The Wolf of Wall Street - the film in which Robbie made her Hollywood breakthrough. SEE ALSO: This '13 Reasons Why' star could be the Asian leading man Hollywood needs Time's The Most Influential 100 People has been released, a regular feature in which profiles of the honorees are written by other famous people. Trying to forge a career in Hollywood? Maybe try slapping your way to the top.