 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
108.81.116.219
Scorsese has brilliantly blended 'Wall Street' with 'Animal House' to produce a wild, raucous tale of nearly three hours that literally flies by. We see the mercurial rise and fall of a driven Jordan Belfort played by DiCaprio with virtuoso style and panache. The rest of the cast shined as well with Jonah Hill playing his trusted and goofy second-in-command and Rob Reiner doing a good turn playing Belfort's dad.I never thought Scorsese was up for Roman orgies but I was apparently wrong, several times. Plenty of skin but it flies by so quickly it leaves one in a state of awe not titillation. The use of drugs and alcohol were overwhelming in the telling of Belfort's story which began in 1987. (I had nearly forgotten how Quaaludes were such an obsession during those times.)
Belfort's life runs just like a movie...his life was a movie and Scorcese captured it with the appropriate amount of excess and over-indulgence of the time. This is a must-see for the spectacle as much as the story of a over-wound man.
Edits: 12/25/13Follow Ups:
They had their heyday back in the 70s when you could buy 'em by the bag for 5-10 cents each. And there is *nothing* so easy as a teenage girl with a Rohrer 714 and a bottle of Boone's Farm's finest.
Or so I've been told...
-RW-
sample dialogue:
Leo: Do you have the Quaaludes?
Jonah: They're up my ass.
Leo: Good!
and that is nothing compared to all the other debauchery which is about as crazy as you can imagine. In short a tornado swept laugh riot!
Thanks for convincing me to go!
.
in a very enlightening episode featuring three very intelligent guys.
Scorsese was talking about having to cut an additional hour + from the film to make the MPAA idiots (my term, not his) "happy".
He and Thelma Schoonmaker (his right hand) spent one year editing WOWS.
Scorsese's insights into and knowledge of editing are truly phenomenal.
He insists he's happy with the results.
DiCaprio interjected at one point: "This IS the director's cut!"
Very much looking forward to seeing this. Thanks for the review!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
See link.
The article's writer was a victim of a crime and she is complaining that these kind of crimes should not be entertaining.
But movies about criminals go back to the earliest days of the movies- and people have been entertained by gangsters, murderers, and robbers for all that time.
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine is obviously derived from the Madoff scandal.
It is a shame she was victimized by her father, and maybe she should avoid movies on that subject. But bottom line, it was entertaining.
You got the fun side and the real side. If Madoff wasn't such a prune it could have been his movie, I guess.
Post a Followup:
| FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
