The Wolf Of Wall Steet

My Chosen Movie 

The film I have chosen to analyse is The Wolf Of Wall Street.

 The reason why I chose this film to analyse is because the moral of this story is very interesting and has an interesting story on why the story ends the way it does. I also chose this because there is alot of  information to analyse about this film and why it has varied the representation of the characters in a certain way.

Institutional Background

The film had 5 production companies however the first one was Paramount Pictures which presented the movie along with Red Granite Pictures. The UK Distributors where Universal Pictures International and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. 

No Brand Loyalty

The Wolf Of Wall Street has three different genres; Crime, Drama and Biography.The trailer of the film specifies all the genres of the movie and this is because in the movie you see bits of drama, you see the biography genre where the main character 'Jordan Belfort' who in the trailer engages the audience by asking a rhetorical question and the last genre crime is because the rhetorical question is the main character asking "Was all this legal?" and then answering it himself with "Absolutely not," this tells us that crime was a well chosen genre as the FBI have a big part in the movie.My chosen movie is not a sequel the first movie first came out in USA in 2013 and i believe it will remain as one movie. No other movies by the writer are mentioned in the trailer however the writer has written other movies before such as; Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos and Get Rich Or Die Tryin' . 

Its All A Matter Of Timing

The release date for the movie in the UK was 17 January 2014. The official trailer came out on 29 October 2013 on Youtube however I tried looking for teaser trailers but I could not find any.

Its A Social Thing

Th majority of the public have given this movie a good review, some have described it as Scorsese's best work however there are other people who see it in a different view, they believe its full of drugs,sex scenes violence and greed they also believe no emotion is displayed throughout the movie at all. Some of the critic reviews were actually interesting to read, in this case I have planned to show two good reviews and one bad review that the movie got.

Good;
          "This is a fantastic exploration of greed. money, and truly flawed character that spent much on the nineties on a jaw-dropping but pernicious thrill-ride"
Bad;
       "Every time I looked at my watch, the hands seemed to have stayed still."

Good; "The Wolf of Wall Street is a film that speaks to our times, and it is saying some very important things if we care to listen."

Risky Business 

The production budget in dollars for this movie was $100 million. In dollars the movie made around $18,361,578 in the opening weekend whereas in pounds the movie made around £11,635,731.98 on the opening weekend worldwide. Worldwide the film made around $116,900,694 + £275.100,00 from foreign countries. 

Stars In Their Eyes

The director has previously directed films such as; Goodfellas, Shutter Island and The Departed.His previous films vary from, Biography, Drama, Crime, Thriller and Mystery.The main start in this film is Leonardo DiCaprio who is famously known to play many different roles in different genre movies. DiCaprio has also taken part in The Departed which is another movie by Martin Scorsese. DiCaprio is known to play many different roles therefore he is not known for a specific type of genre. The director is mentioned at the beginning of the trailer whereas the writer of the script and the writet of the book the film is based on are both mentioned in one shot at the end.