The Wolf Of Wall Street Research Papers

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The Wolf of Wall Street: The Chase For Money

The best things in life, are the things that grab our attention and keep it. The things that stand about because they are real and entertaining as hell. If The Wolf of Wall Street is anything, it is no doubt many of these things. It is honest, shameless, inappropriate, a classic comedy, and shows the struggle with business and pleasure. This movie has many, if not all, the best qualities a movie could have in my opinion. But you still have to ask what makes this movie worth 116.9 million dollars in box office and a 8.2 out of 10 on the International Movie Database(IMDb)?(IMDb.com)

The Wolf of Wall Street is a true story (Dockterman), about a young man in his early 20s named Jordon Belfort starting off his career on wall street in 1987. He begins at an entry-level broker job working for a man named Mark Hanna, Hanna quickly shows him the ropes and its not long before Belfort and a few close friends make their way to the top of wall street. By the time Belfort is 26 years old, he is the CEO of his own company and its making just shy of a million dollars a week. "The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, …show more content…

Belfort explains his insane drug problem, his hunger for money, and how many hookers he sleeps with in a week. "I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine well, because it's awesome"(The Wolf of Wall Street). This hits home to the disgusting part of his intense honesty. As the movie progresses and you see all these crazy habits Belfort refuses to quit, you see the shameless side of Jordan and his team of hooligan's personalities. They spend money and have fun. They do what they want. And in all this the show no remorse, they are the definition of

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