At Christmas the television program is truly amazing and shows lots of great films. This also includes the biting satire The Wolf of Wall Street by master director Martin Scorsese, which is on TV today. The film, which revolves around the rise and fall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, is based on his autobiography.
A film like a rush: That’s what The Wolf of Wall Street is about
The Wolf of Wall Street tells the story of Jordan Belfort, who manages to from unemployed to one of the richest men to rise in the country. Thanks to his sales talent, the broker quickly made a name for himself on Wall Street in the late 1980s. But true success only comes when he carries out crooked stock transactions and falsifies securities. Multimillionaire Belfort throws his money out the window on luxury, drugs and women and just can’t get enough. He gets deeper and deeper into the criminal maelstrom, but the FBI is already on his heels.
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For Jordan Belfort, money is just paper.
Not only Leonardo DiCaprio carries the film with his great performance, the supporting actors also know how to put themselves in the spotlight. This also includes Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey and the New discovery at the time, Margot Robbiewho already impresses with an incredible screen presence.
The true story of The Wolf of Wall Street
As can be seen in an article from Slate, which we summarized here, the real Jordan Belfort slowly worked his way up to become a multimillionaire and hired many of his friends into his company. The film is brimming with excitement Drug excesses and crazy storiesmost of which correspond to Belfort’s descriptions.
Like the fact that Belfort landed a helicopter on his property while drunk, wrecked his car or ordered the captain of his yacht to sail through a storm until they finally had to be rescued by the Italian military. Also the Violence towards his wife can be read in the biography as well as the scene in which she unsuspectingly spreads her legs in front of a surveillance camera.
When is The Wolf of Wall Street on TV?
On Christmas Day (December 26) at 11 p.m VOX shows The Wolf of Wall Street. There are no repeats, but the film can also be streamed. Netflix, Amazon Prime, WOW and RTL+, among others, make the film available.