Up and running with my Oscar Marathon! March 2nd is approaching and there are so many films on the list! Are you keeping up too?
This weekend was for the amazing Leonardo DiCaprio in yet another duo (it’s their fifth film together) with Scorsese.
Loved it! Three hours that fly in the movie theater. It’s an adaptation of the memoir of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who became a millionaire starting a brokerage firm from scratch. He began by doing all things legal, living in the edge, and then it all became a big fraud. One scam left to the other, causing the firm – and everyone involved – to break.
It all happened in the 80s-90s, but it’s a pretty up-to-date subject, right? Who doesn’t want to know how the stock market operates? What they do with the precious money of those who decide to invest? And here I speak from my own experience… I know nothing about the subject and even feel a little dumb when I talk to my bank manager, or anyone, about investments. And being able to see what goes on and we can’t even imagine, makes the conservatives like me even more scared to make risky investments. Even if the story doesn’t mention the drama of those who were deceived. Even so. If you’re layperson like me, you’ll get to the end of the film really fearing those stuff.
Besides the attentive “client” perspective, of someone who can fall for one of the many market scams, which really grabs your attention (at least for me), I loved the movie for several other reasons. Scorsese really nailed it!
The entire cast is fantastic. All of it. And Di Caprio once again outstanding. I waited for the final credits and saw he’s also the producer. I love to see when an actor is also the producer. It makes it even more special for me since it shows how passionate he is about the project. When an actor decides to deal with the whole production bureaucracy, it means a whole lot of passion involved. And we can see that. We see both Di Caprio and Scorsese pulsating. Avid. Passionate.
Get ready for a whole bunch of drugs. An awful lot of it. Lots of sex. Bad words. Craze. Forget about boundaries. I read this movie hit the record of 569 mentions of the word “fuck”, having even been censored in countries such as Malaysia, India and Lebanon. What? This kind of thing still exists? Anyway, be prepared to excesses of all kinds.
They were nominated as best picture, director, actor (Di Caprio already won the Golden Globes! Will he get an Oscar this time? I find it so bizarre that he hasn’t won it already!), supporting actor for Jonah Hill and adapted screenplay. Wow!
I’m rooting for it!
Congratulations, Scorsese!
