To no one's surprise, Scorsese's collected an impressively talented cast for his latest endeavor.
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As might be expected in the autobiography of a veteran con man with movie rights already sold, it's hard to know how much to believe. The book's main topic is the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive. There is only brief mention of Belfort's life before Wall Street or events since 1997. Profits were laundered through purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks.
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It covers his decade of success with straightforward accounts of how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, so he and the insiders made large profits while public investors usually lost. Jordan Belfort, who founded one of the first and largest chop shop brokerage firms in 1987, was banned from the securities business for life by 1994, and later went to jail for fraud and money-laundering, delivers a memoir that reads like fiction. His 2013's not looking so shabby from here either. McConaughey has just signed on to join Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, based on Jordan Belfort's memoir about living it up as a broker in the '80s. 2012 is shaping up to be the single best year of his career, with Richard Linklater's Bernie, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, William Friedkin's Killer Joe, and Lee Daniel's The Paperboy all in theaters. I don't know what's gotten into Matthew McConaughey lately, but here's hoping it sticks around a while. Through some fancy financial wrangling and hard sells, Belfort and his buddies get filthy rich in a hurry, quickly becoming the sort of vulgar. Scorsese tells the same story, though this time it's set in the 1990s, when Belfort founded his brokerage (which he named Stratton Oakmont largely because it sounds posh) after getting hooked on the Wall Street high life. A heck of a hangover is in store for everyone. That all comes crashing down, because it simply can't last. Anderson's movie told the story of a working class boy named Eddie Adams who re-christens himself Dirk Diggler and rises to the top of an industry built on giving people what they want: the illusion of being wanted, the feeling of being in control, the fulfillment of a base desire.
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With Wolf, things come full circle-it's this film that's got everything in common with Boogie Nights. But now there's an actual Scorsese movie out, The Wolf of Wall Street, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort, a real-life stockbroker who lives the very high life in the 1990s while committing securities fraud and the sorts of (mostly) white-collar crimes that land you in federal prison.
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Some also said American Hustle felt like it was directed by Martin Scorsese. You can see the point, but where Boogie Nights careens wildly and joyously off its rails, American Hustle plods here and there ( here's my review). They're alike mostly aesthetically-outlandish costumes, period music, that sort of thing.
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Anderson's 1997 movie about the pre-AIDS heyday and subsequent fall of the pornography industry in the 1970s. This month American Hustle, based on the Abscam scandal of the 1970s, garnered comparisons to Boogie Nights, P.T.