Open sex in the office.
An orgy on the plane.
In the men's room.
I doubt it.
According to the book, and various other sources, it is a part of wall street culture.
Drugs and expensive prostitutes, and wild parties.
Most wall street traders and brokers are on 16 hour working days, that means other than sleeping that is all they do, a lot of them use drugs to increase performance, because if you don't perform you lose your job very quickly and permanently. Who want a trader could not make money? And the wall street firms usually turn a blind eye.
And most of them, at least those who survived through their performance, even very rich, don't have a lot of time for women, that is why wild parties are usually given to provide some relief. And the firms usually encourage wild spending and expensive habits, so the traders would burn their money and go back to work.
Maybe but this is idea is coming from two sources.
1) A Wall Street liar, conman and thief.
2) Hollywood which is known to exaggerate and just flat out make up things to make a 'Based on a true story," movie more exciting than the events really were.
1) A Wall Street liar, conman and thief.
2) Hollywood which is known to exaggerate and just flat out make up things to make a 'Based on a true story," movie more exciting than the events really were.
i dident read the book but i know alot about wall street and if jordan wrote it he probably tried to sell you bullshit.
mix it up the scoresesse tendency of exageretting everything and put lilteral bullshit in all his movies. like that cringe inducing scene in godfellas when they are in prison but they have their own house and they cook their own food. micheal franseze who is former mobster said its bullshit and prison to mobsters was hell like to anyone else.
so yeah. i highly doubt that even 1% of this movie happend in real life. in reality wall street is just a boring ass place for nerdy stock brokers.
You seem to know nothing about the "country club" prisons, which was actually detailed in the book, where you get personal assistant, take out menu and tennis courts. That is if you have a lot of money of course.
shareit dosent exist you idiot. there is no "country club prisons" you fucking retard. there is no point in making one. prison is for people to get punished. otherwise why the fuck do you think nobody wanna go there? fucking idiot
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This is just a poor movie, like a horny immature teeenager made it. Scorcese has issues
shareIt's part of the theme of excess in the movie.
shareDon't ever look into what goes on on a Hollywood movie set...
shareSet around 1987 so yeah for sure. Lots of money, drugs and sex and no Woke/PC culture to even begin to criticize you for it. Would have been mostly a male run business too, lots of that kind of thing in the 70's and 80's. The hot female staff who would get hit on and have sex at parties etc
Completely different world to now where you don't even say hello to people.
No doubt a lot of stock brokers do coke and may have sex with hookers but that much as shown so openly like this?
That is what I doubt.
Esp. since this is based on the stories of a con man.
Just like Goodfellas.
Also from the tellings of a criminal and there are those out there who will believe everything they say?
I think some things happened, others are exaggerated and most of it is just totally made up.
I'm a big fan of 80's hard rock and metal and when you read those guys stories, coke was everywhere. They would attend meetings at the record office and they would describe the layer of white dust on the tables. It was an excessive time and you can see it through the way people dressed and spent, the way they lived in general.
I would believe the sex was much the same given so many of the were on coke which in turn would affect their judgement. Maybe some of it is embellished by the director for the sake of a more interesting film. But generally I would say a lot of it happened.
According to IMDb trivia : The real Jordan Belfort supported the film's depiction of excess. His one objection was the film's implication that Stratton Oakmont never did any serious work. Belfort argued that they couldn't have gotten away with their corrupt practices for so long unless they had been delivering on legitimate business most of the time.
I believe the above, I have seen that kind of thing to a lesser extent a lot. In the end no matter how slack or corrupt you are, if you aren't delivering the basic work you will be found out quickly.