I saw "The Wolf of Wall Street" last night, what did you think ?

[steve2470]

Cons first: I think Martin Scorcese definitely threw in as much debauchery as he could. Some reviewers have chided him for that. I never read the book by Jordan Belfort (the protagonist), so I don't know how much of it is supposedly accurate.

Pros: It was very funny in spots and overall a pretty good view into the greed of Wall Street. The movie is 3 hours long, so go prepared.

The Wolf of Wall Street

[jakeXT]

1. I've only seen the trailer and I've read the commentary by Christina McDowell / Christina Prousalis

An Open Letter to the Makers of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the Wolf Himself

BY CHRISTINA MCDOWELL

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, dear Kings of Hollywood, but you have been conned.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Christina McDowell, formerly Christina Prousalis. I am the daughter of Tom Prousalis, a man the Washington Post described as "just some guy on trial for penny-stock fraud." (I had to change my name after my father stole my identity and then threatened to steal it again, but I'll get to that part later.) I was eighteen and a freshman in college when my father and his attorneys forced me to attend his trial at New York City's federal courthouse so that he "looked good" for the jury -- the consummate family man.

And you, Jordan Belfort, Wall Street's self-described Wolf: You remember my father, right? You were chosen to be the government's star witness in testifying against him. You had pleaded guilty to money laundering and securities fraud (it was the least you could do) and become a government witness in two dozen cases involving your former business associate, but my father's attorneys blocked your testimony because had you testified it would have revealed more than a half-dozen other corrupt stock offerings too. And, well, that would have been a disaster. It would have just been too many liars, and too many schemes for the jurors, attorneys or the judge to follow.

But the records shows you and my father were in cahoots together with MVSI Inc. of Vienna, e-Net Inc. of Germantown, Md., Octagon Corp. of Arlington, Va., and Czech Industries Inc. of Washington, D.C., and so on -- a list of seemingly innocuous, legitimate companies that stretches on. I'll spare you. Nobody cares. None of these companies actually existed, yet all of them were taken public by the one and only Wolf of Wall Street and his firm Stratton Oakmont Inc in order to defraud unwitting investors and enrich yourselves.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/12/wolf_of_wall_street_prousalis.php

[steve2470]

2. thanks for that link, reading now ! nt

[CFLDem]

3. The movie totally blew my mind.

I wish my workplace could be like that. I could do without the hard drugs, though.

[Initech]

4. I seriously wonder how those two are still alive.

I mean after the boat crash, all the drugs... the 714s....