His office enforcer is his volcanic dad ( Rob Reiner), who screams about expenditures and workplace sleaze, but often seems to live vicariously through the trading floor's young wolves.īelfort's right hand man Donnie Azoff ( Jonah Hill) is perhaps even more conscienceless than Belfort: a hefty wiseass with gleaming choppers who quits his job at a diner after one conversation with the hero, joins his scheme, helps him launder money, and introduces him to crack-as if Belfort didn't have enough intoxicants in his system, on top of the adrenaline he generates by making deals and bedding every halfway attractive woman who crosses his path. Byrne), "The Depraved Chinaman" Chester Ming ( Kenneth Choi), and Brad Bodnick ( Jon Bernthal), a DeNiro-esque neighborhood hothead who's known as the Quaalude King of Bayside.
All have both given names and Damon Runyon-esque nicknames: Robbie Feinberg, aka "Pinhead" (Brian Sacca), Alden Kupferberg, aka "Sea Otter" ( Henry Zebrowski), the dreadfully-toupeed "Rugrat" Nicky Koskoff (P.J. This Robin Hood-in-reverse builds himself a team of merry men drawn from various sundry corners of his life. Taking its cues from gangster pictures, " Wolf" shows how Belfort rose from humble origins, becoming rich and notorious (the title comes from an unflattering magazine profile that caught the attention of federal prosecutors). Belfort was indicted in 1998 for money laundering and securities fraud, spent nearly two years in federal prison and was ordered to pay back $110 million to investors he'd deceived. Per Wikipedia, at its peak, "the firm employed over 1000 stock brokers and was involved in stock issues totaling more than $1 billion, including an equity raising for footwear company Steve Madden Ltd." Belfort and his company specialized in " pump and dump" operations: artificially blowing up the value of a nearly worthless stock, then selling it at a big profit, after which point the value drops and the investors lose their money. He reinvented himself on Long Island by taking over a penny stock boiler room and giving it an old money name, Stratton Oakmont, to gain the confidence of middle- and working-class investors. The middle-class, Queens-raised Belfort tried and failed to establish himself on Wall Street in a more traditional way-we see his tutelage in the late '80s at a blue chip firm, under the wing of a grinning sleazeball played by Matthew McConaughey-but got laid off in the market crash of 1987.
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