
Belfort ultimately comes up with a scheme to stash their cash in a European bank. With the FBI onto Belfort's trading schemes, he devises new ways to cover his tracks and watch his fortune grow. Martin Scorseses The Wolf of Wall Street has been at the center of a major debate with fans calling it an cutting criticism. That ultimately leads to Belfort featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine, being called "The Wolf Of Wall St.". The Secrets Behind Wolf Of Wall Streets Head Shaving Scene Revealed. They draw attention like no other, throwing lavish parties for their staff when they hit the jackpot on high trades. As their status grows, so do the amount of substances they abuse, and so do their lies. So much that companies file their initial public offerings through them. Their company quickly grows from a staff of 20 to a staff of more than 250 and their status in the trading community and Wall Street grows exponentially. Just be warned that some of the early scenes featuring raucous debauchery, explicit sex and drug use may not be for the faint of heart.In the early 1990s, Jordan Belfort teamed with his partner Donny Azoff and started brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont. This is one of Scorsese’s most fascinating films and, along with screenwriter Terence Winter’s superb adaptation, once again examines the effects of corruption, greed and power, which has been a staple in his films, but unlike others, this is presented like a comedy of errors rather than the dark morality tale of “Goodfellas.” Not that this isn’t a dark film, it’s just masked in gobs of confetti, bright color and a cocaine-addled high.



As Jordan Belfort defies the world, including the wise advice from his own father and as the money, drugs and greed compound exponentially, the film explodes into a wild self-destructive revelry. Scorsese paints the rise and fall of Belfort and his Long Island pals-turned securities frauds like a raucous circus, a pressure cooker of debauchery and gratuitousness. A relevant farce and cynical deconstruction of greed and excess, “Wolf” is based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir, “The Wolf of Wall Street” and chronicles the sly con-man in the late 1980s as he turned a small-time penny stock brokerage firm into the thriving and fraudulent Stratton Oakmont, whose wide-spread corruption swept across Wall Street and the corporate banking world into the early 90s.
