If you do like Belfort suggested and begin the conversation by “selling the pen,” then you’ve likely lost the sale. In a sales call, you need to spend more time listening than speaking. That’s why it’s so hard to master the art of sales … because most people like the sound o...
Margot Robbiehas revealed that her full frontal nude scene inThe Wolf of Wall Streetwas her idea. “That’s not what she would do in that scene,” Robbie said of character during a recent appearance on theTalking Picturespodcast. The scene famously unfolded when her character was trying ...
“The Wolf of Wall Street” is the story of Jordan Belfort, who pleaded guilty in 1999 to charges of stock market manipulation and fraud as the head of a bogus “firm” selling penny-stocks to suckers. Scorsese puts his film in Belfort’s pocket, and Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio, in a c...
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Martin Scorsese's film leaves no storytelling trick unused while watching Jordan Belfort embrace Wall Street's cutthroat ethos.
His belief that anyone could sell anything was a pillar of his company’s success. This is on full display during the “sell me this pen” scene, where Belfort demonstrates to his employees the benefit of creating urgency in a sales transaction. To Belfort, anyone with the passion and will...
“But you don’t care about any of this. All you care about is whether we made a shitload of money.” In fact, the “dump” half of the equation is almost completely absent. We never see Belfort or his people selling off equities like crazy. (They do it very late in the film ...
Leonardo DiCaprio can claim to have cornered the market on 20th century Long Island gazillionaires. Having begun his year portraying Jazz Age mystery man Jay Gatsby, he closes it by serving up a wild portrait of a poster child for ’90s financial excess in The Wolf of Wall Street. Nearly ...
In one scene of The Wolf of Wall Street movie, bricks of cash are taped to a Swiss woman's body. "[I] never taped money to boobs," the real Danny Porush says (played by Jonah Hill in the movie). According to Jordan Belfort's memoir, the event did happen but his partner Porush...
Of the characters we saw the film, which would you most like to entrust yourself to? Once again, how then should we not sympathize with Eli? * This is one scene where the Magnolia subtitles really altered the film for me. When I first watched the film, it was with the Magnolia ...