Pretend you are in front of an audience, a crowd, a group of people, or even just one customer. And your only goal is to sell them a pen, just one pen. Now, will you be able to sell it? Or will you end up taking it home with you? What will you say? and how will you say it?
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The wolf of wall street is a movie about Jordan Belfort and his rise to riches.
I've always known myself to be a very shitty salesman because my practical aspect is as shitty as my theoretical aspect but still a salesman is a salesman until I met Jordan Belfort(Leonardo DiCaprio), the salesman who can sell anything.
Jordan Belfort who is known as the wolf of wall street. Is a Broker who initially started his quest for a fortune in his early twenties, as a trainee broker under the mentorship of another skilled and qualified broker. It didn't take much for Belfort to master the skills of a Broker and storm the streets in his quests to unravel the treasures only a true broker would be able to obtain.
He quickly and effortlessly became a multi-millionaire, and just like any human with a boatload of money, he fell victim to greed and drug addiction, which eventually made his whole career and everything he labored to build come crashing down.
I don't know if any other movie comes close to this when trying to elaborate on the effects of too much money and the lack of money on the human mind. And although I'm not a big fan of Leonardo DiCaprio because I just can't understand why people love him and claim him to be the greatest actor alive. I mean, if it were Will Smith, Denzel Washington, or Sam L. Jackson, I would have easily believed.
But after watching DiCaprio do his magic, I'm left with the only option to accept his acting as greatness. My most memorable moments of Leonardo DiCaprio in this movie was how he was able to constantly depict an addict's life, a man addicted to money.. a man addicted to women... And a man addicted to drugs and addicted to the lifestyle. I also enjoyed his motivational speeches, which he delivers on several occasions, as it, in some way motivated me.
Another actor in this movie that performed magic in the role they were given is Margot Robbie. As I watched her transition from the role of girlfriend to wife and finally to a mother, all I could think of was how her character, Naomi Lapaglia, shares so much in common with current her Harley Quinn character(in the DC's live adaptation), the voice, the skin, and the attitude that stands out. Her beauty didn't also go unnoticed as it blended well with several of her character traits, forcing an outstanding performance out of Robbie.
Jonah Hill who played Donnie Azoff is not left out of the equation because he also had me feeling hate, and love at the same time. My first impression of his character was genuine acceptance, Jonah portrayed the character in a manner that made me laugh mostly. Then as time went on, he slowly drifted into something more different, as his character became a complete idiot, a foolish drug addict, and the one who almost destroyed Jordan's hard work, but aside from these bad qualities he displayed, there was no doubt that Jonah Hill's character Donnie Azoff was and is still a good friend.
Honestly, I can't imagine having a friend who is a complete addict, with 0% intelligence, and still a shitty friend. But a supportive friend is gold to me.
I never thought that I would appreciate a movie without a slice of action in it. But this movie had a story to tell, which means it doesn't require much action, and even though it focused relentlessly on the main character, the result still came out as fabulous, entertaining, and mostly educative.
Finally, business is life and life is business, exactly how this movie depicts it... Learning how to sell what you have, even if it's just an idea, can mean a big difference as a survivor.
