The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
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| German title | The Wolf of Wall Street |
| Original title | The Wolf of Wall Street |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 179 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
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| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| script | Terence Winter |
| production |
Riza Aziz , Leonardo DiCaprio , Joey McFarland , Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff |
| music | Robbie Robertson |
| camera | Rodrigo Prieto |
| cut | Thelma Schoonmaker |
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The Wolf of Wall Street is an American biopic from the year 2013 with Leonardo DiCaprio , Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie in the lead roles. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese . The film is based on the bestseller of the same name by the stockbroker Jordan Belfort .
The film premiered in New York City on December 17, 2013 . It started in the United States on December 25, 2013, and in German-speaking countries on January 16, 2014.
action
The film begins with a Stratton Oakmont commercial , in which values such as integrity, seriousness and stability are pretended. A cut shows reality: a dwarf throw is being held in the office. Jordan Belfort , who comes from a humble background, remembers his career in a flashback . New York , the mid-1980s: The young and ambitious Belfort begins in tradition bank LF Rothschild as Telefonakquisiteur for Wall Street - stock broker of the company. He is taken under the wing of the eccentric Mark Hanna. He quickly explains to him that it is not about the well-being of the clients, but above all about getting rich quickly yourself through commissions . Hanna also introduces him to the world of drugs and prostitution on Wall Street.
Six months later, on the very day in 1987, when Belfort received his broker license after passing his exam and was able to work independently, he lost his job. This day later becomes known as Black Monday , which marks the biggest stock market crash since the Great Depression in 1929 . His employer, founded in the nineteenth century, closes. Shortly afterwards, during an interview, he became aware of the almost unregulated market of penny stocks . Compared to commissions of 1 percent with standard values , these have very high commissions of up to 50 percent. Belfort hires a small, seedy company on Long Island and, thanks to his sales talent, soon has a very good income.
Donnie Azoff, who lives in the same apartment block as Belfort, becomes aware of Belfort's new wealth because of the Jaguar E-Type and offers to quit his job as a children's furniture salesman and work for Belfort. While they initially sell the penny stocks to working class people, they soon switch to wealthy people as the target group. However, these must first be baited in via blue chips before they are ready to invest in the riskier penny stocks. Together with Donnie and his friends, Belfort founds the company "Stratton Oakmont", which is active in over-the-counter trading . Only Brad, a drug dealer friend of Donnie's friend, does not join the company, but often acts as a contact person and front man. Belfort soon made a name for himself as "The Wolf of Wall Street". He gets the nickname from a journalist, he hates him at first, but young stockbrokers come to him en masse because of the article. Belfort and its employees lead an unrestrained lifestyle. Even in the office you use drugs and hang out with prostitutes. The staff worship the charismatic Belfort like a guru.
At a party in his house in the Hamptons , Jordan Belfort meets the attractive Naomi Lapaglia as a companion of an acquaintance, whom he immediately keeps an eye on. He starts an affair with her and is caught by his wife Teresa Petrillo. A few days later, Belfort files for divorce, whereupon Naomi moves in with Belfort and later marries him. He celebrates his bachelorette party with his employees and prostitutes in Las Vegas and spends two million dollars on it. As a wedding present, Naomi receives a yacht.
In order to generate more sales, Stratton Oakmont is increasingly leaving the path of the legal. The brokers operate according to the pump and dump principle , i. This means that false statements are made about stocks that are of very low value and in which the own company holds a majority. For example, the company is organizing the IPO of a shoe designer friend, although Belfort and his friends hold 85 percent of the shares themselves. The FBI, in the person of Agent Patrick Denham, becomes aware of Belfort and begins the investigation. Belfort's attempts to bribe Denham fail. In a panic of immense losses, the founders of Stratton Oakmont have their assets smuggled into Switzerland. One of her friends knows a Swiss banker from college who advises her on how best to keep assets in safe custody.
At the same time, Belfort's drug addiction is becoming more and more of a problem. He comes to work intoxicated with drugs, important conversations and negotiations are seldom sober and it goes so far that he has to take his pills systematically in order to be able to sleep regularly.
One afternoon, Donnie meets with Brad to give him another money that Brad's Slovenian wife with a Swiss passport and her relatives are supposed to smuggle into Switzerland. But Donnie provokes Brad so much that they both notice a passing police car. Brad is then arrested. Donnie is able to drive away unrecognized and then goes to Belfort plagued by guilt. There he shows him a pack of old Lemmon 714 tablets, which are much stronger than the ones previously used. Then Belfort cancels all appointments and they meet to “celebrate” in Belfort's house. At first they don't notice any effect and take three more pills in addition to the first. Donnie works out in the in-house weight room to stimulate his circulation and accelerate the effects of the drugs. Then Belfort gets a call from his private detective Bo Dietl , with whose help he wants to monitor the actions of the FBI agents. Dietl tells him that all of his phones are being tapped and that he should drive away immediately and call him from a payphone. During a phone call in a clubhouse a mile away, the drugs kick in and Belfort loses control completely. When he arrives at the car, he receives a call from Naomi on the car phone and learns that Donnie is revealing important information through the tapped phones. On the way home he destroyed without perceiving it, by caroms his white Lamborghini Countach . He finally manages to snatch the phone from Donnie, who almost suffocates after devouring two whole rolls of ham in a drug frenzy .
Belfort's attorneys and his own father advise him to strike a deal with the authorities and step down as president of Stratton Oakmont, but Belfort cannot reconcile that with his ego. In an emotional speech to his employees, he shows himself ready to fight and they celebrate him fanatically. He escapes from the United States and runs the company from the yacht Naomi in the Mediterranean.
When another front man for the money transport to Switzerland, Naomi's English mom and pop, dies unexpectedly, Belfort wants to get to Geneva before the funeral, despite the captain's concerns about bad weather , in order to arrange the transfer of the millions to him on time. However, the Naomi goes down in a storm off the Italian coast, the passengers and crew can be rescued by the Italian coast guard .
Back in the USA, Belfort was arrested and placed under house arrest for the duration of the investigation using electronic ankle cuffs . He's also on a drug withdrawal. When Naomi announced the divorce, however, he went mad, sniffed cocaine that he still hid in the house, beats Naomi and tried in vain to escape with their daughter, for whom Naomi is demanding custody.
To avoid a lengthy prison sentence, he agrees to cooperate with the authorities and to betray his friends. He is given a recording device and given the task of extracting incriminating statements from Donnie. He secretly warns Donnie with a note. A short time later the police appear at Belfort and he realizes that Donnie has betrayed him. Belfort will be brought to justice for failing to comply with the agreement. This time Belfort cooperates. Stratton Oakmont will be shut down, the money will be confiscated, and anyone linked to fraud or the like will be arrested.
After being released from prison, Belfort becomes a motivational and sales trainer . In New Zealand he is introduced by a moderator to seminar participants whom he is supposed to train in the art of selling. But none of the participants showed a talent for selling.
background
The film production companies Red Granite Pictures, Sikelia Productions, Appian Way Productions and EMJAG Productions were involved in the realization of the film .
The film was shot from August 25, 2012 to January 12, 2013, including in New York City with an estimated film budget of 100 million US dollars . With Rob Reiner , Jon Favreau and Spike Jonze , a total of three filmmakers known more than directors appeared in supporting roles. In the final scene of the film, Jordan Belfort made a cameo as a moderator during a motivational training session . Bo Dietl plays himself in the film.
It opened in theaters in the United States on December 25, 2013. In Germany, the film was released on January 16, 2014. In the first week it entered the German cinema charts and held this position in the following week. The film reached more than 1,000 visitors per copy on the opening weekend and then more than a million visitors within ten days, which qualified it for the Bogey Award in two categories . On May 30, 2014, Universal Pictures Germany released the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-16 rating.
The US attorney Andrew Greene sued Paramount Pictures for $ 25 million in February 2014 and at the same time demanded that the film be stopped immediately. The reason for this was that he saw himself misrepresented in the film as Nicky Koskoff, played by PJ Byrne , and people kept making fun of his toupee, which he also wears in real life.
In the spring of 2016, evidence emerged that the financing of The Wolf of Wall Street was largely diverted from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund . Prime Minister Najib Razak , who also presides over the fund, is at the center of the suspected fraud involving sovereign wealth fund 1 Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) . Investigators revealed that hundreds of millions of dollars were diverted from the fund to his personal bank accounts. In 2012, 1MDB issued two tranches of bonds to invest in power plants in Malaysia. An arm of a sovereign wealth fund from Abu Dhabi , Aabar Investment PJS, guaranteed the repayment of the money raised. In return, 1MDB was supposed to pay Aabar $ 1.4 billion. This sum did not go to Abu Dhabi, but to an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands with a similar name: Aabar Investments PJS Ltd. From there, the money has been forwarded to various recipients, including approximately $ 150 million to the production company Red Granite , which probably invested part of this money in The Wolf of Wall Street .
additional
The film contains references to both the television series Miami Vice and The Equalizer, as well as the restaurant chain Benihana . The saying "Goobe-Gobble ... she is one of us" is a quote from the classic horror film Freaks from 1932. There are also allusions to the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Oompa Loompas , where they dance and play Steve Madden shows up.
The fictional financial investor "Gordon Gekko" from the movie Wall Street (1987) is also mentioned. The song "Mrs. Robinson ”is played during the search by the FBI.
German dubbed version
The German dubbing was done at Interopa Film in Berlin . The dialogue book was written by Klaus Bickert and Clemens Frohmann , the latter also being the dubbing director .
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews. The film has an average rating of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 277 reviews.
At Metacritic , the average rating is 75%, based on 47 reviews.
“The director Scorsese supports the attitude of his audience to despise politics and not believe in possible courses of action, he renounces indignation in favor of cynicism. Scorsese turns out to be at least a fatalist, perhaps even a nihilist, one who turns the insight that in the end everything is in the eye of the beholder into an argument to keep one's own position ambivalent. "
“Behind the garish images there is also a meditation on the seductiveness of people. Scorsese repeatedly maneuvers his film into zones of narrative standstill, just as if it were the calm center of a thundering hurricane: Belfort addresses his people in sprawling speeches in the style of a preacher in order to push them to their top performance. What a keen sense for emotional triggers he incites his people to the extreme, what a matter of course he speaks out against social chauvinism and almost also draws the cinema audience on his side, in short: with what success this Belfort even the greatest meanness with one Selling smiles, ultimately makes The Wolf of Wall Street one of the horror films of our time, albeit a great one. "
“[…] Critic's conclusion: The Wolf of Wall Street is Martin Scorsese's best film since his mafia classic Casino from 1995. The three-hour film, bristling with bad taste and sheer madness, shows that age does not necessarily mean that protects against unexpected bursts of creativity. "
“Scorsese's film is neither morality nor an educational piece. If one thesis from The Wolf of Wall Street can be won, it is that money makes vulgar and ordinary and therefore means the opposite of refinement and culture. "
Awards
- Nomination in the category Best Film for Martin Scorsese , Leonardo DiCaprio , Joey McFarland , Emma Tillinger Koskoff
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Jonah Hill
- Nomination in the category Best Director for Martin Scorsese
- Nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Terence Winter
British Academy Film Awards 2014
- Nomination in the category Best Director for Martin Scorsese
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio
- Nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Terence Winter
- Nomination in the category Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
- Nomination in the category Best Film - Comedy / Musical
- Award in the category Best Actor - Comedy / Musical for Leonardo DiCaprio
- Nomination in the category Best Film - Drama
- Nomination in the category Best Director for Martin Scorsese
- Nomination for Best Actor - Drama for Leonardo DiCaprio
- Nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Terence Winter
- Nomination in the category Best Film Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
- Nomination for Best Picture for Martin Scorsese
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio
- Nomination in the category Best Acting Ensemble
- Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for Terence Winter
Chicago Film Critics Association
- Nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Terence Winter
- Nomination in the category Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
Boston Society of Film Critics
- Nomination in the Best Film category
- Nomination in the category Best Director for Martin Scorsese
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio
- Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for Terence Winter
- Nomination in the category Best Film Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
AACTA International Awards 2014
- Nomination in the category Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2014
- Nomination in the Best Film category
- Nomination in the category Best Acting Ensemble
- Nomination in the category Best Director for Martin Scorsese
- Nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Terence Winter
- Nomination in the category Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
- Award for Best Actor in a Comedy for Leonardo DiCaprio
- Award in the Top Ten Film of the Year category
Directors Guild of America Award
- Nomination in the category Best Director for Martin Scorsese
- Nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Terence Winter
- Award in the Top Ten Films category
Palm Springs International Film Festival
- Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jonah Hill
In 2016, The Wolf of Wall Street ranked 78th in a BBC poll of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .
literature
- Jordan Belfort: The Wolf of Wall Street. The story of a Wall Street icon . Goldmann Verlag , Kulmbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-938350-74-4 (American English: The Wolf of Wall Street . Translated by Egbert Neumüller).
- Dana Poppenberg / Gerhard Poppenberg: Martin Scorsese. Introduction to his films and film aesthetics. Paderborn 2018. pp. 184–199.
Web links
- Official page for the film
- The Wolf of Wall Street in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Wolf of Wall Street with Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Expert opinion from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) with the rating "particularly valuable"
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release to the Wolf of Wall Street . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 686 K).
- ^ Age rating for The Wolf of Wall Street . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Star line-up for Scorsese's latest flick in New York at stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, accessed on December 22, 2013
- ^ IMDb Company Credits The Wolf of Wall Street. Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
- ^ IMDb Box office / business for The Wolf of Wall Street. Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
- ^ IMDb Filming Locations The Wolf of Wall Street. Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
- ^ IMDb Release Info The Wolf of Wall Street. Retrieved December 10, 2013 .
- ↑ "The Wolf Of Wall Street" defends the top at tip-berlin.de, accessed on January 30, 2014
- ↑ 25 million lawsuit against Wolf of Wall Street Die Welt, February 19, 2014
- ^ Dizziness with the swindler film Basler Zeitung, April 13, 2016
- ↑ a b c The Wolf of Wall Street. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 14, 2014 .
- ↑ The Wolf of Wall Street at rottentomatoes.com. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ^ The Wolf of Wall Street at metacritic.com. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ^ Critique by Rüdiger Suchsland on Telepolis from January 17, 2014 (accessed on January 17, 2014)
- ↑ Criticism by Thomas Groh on fluter.de ( memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Critique by Gregor Torinus on Spielfilm.de
- ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: Review of "The Wolf of Wall Street". epd film, accessed October 31, 2014 .
