It's interesting to compare the 2 characters - especially since the screenwriter, Terrence Winter, admitted he wrote Wolf as "Goodfellas on Wallstreet" - and note how Jordan really is just a state supported, institutional gangster. While Henry is eventually caught by "the helicopters" and forced to seek a retribution of sorts Jordan never has to come to terms with his sins because he is the one flying the helicopters - literally in the first scene. The characters are very similar, the largest difference, really, is the setting of their chosen racket. I didn't even think of this until just now, but I think you're absolutely right about Wolf being 3 hours of Henry Hill-esque, drug-fueled paranoia. I've also read that Scorsese is especially reluctant to use ADR, which can make correcting a scene with broken continuity in post production especially challenging.
Very few members of the audience would find any of the discontinuities in Wolf's editing jarring or noticeable. The mark of a competent editor is avoiding errors the mark of a great one is knowing which errors the audience won't notice and Schoonmaker is one of the best ever. This isn't a criticism: none of the continuity errors in Wolf break the flow of the scene. It seemed to happen far more often in this movie than most movies.Īs for continuity errors, Scorsese's longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, has an unusually high tolerance for continuity errors. Like in a dialogue when the camera would switch from being behind one person to the other it was clear that scene wasn't happening continuously, the illusion was broken. Scorsese goes out of his way to demonstrate this to the audience explicitly in one of the film's first scenes, when Belfort "corrects" the color of the car he's driving mid-scene. We're hearing Belfort tell the story, and like a lot of stories, there's room for embellishment and inaccuracies. The stairs are clearly shown to be very short, about 6 steps.įor the stairs and other exaggerations, it's obvious we're in a more subjective reality than most films. 5.In the quaaludes scene Jordan rolls down the stairs at the country club before he gets into his car. Of course, swallowing a goldfish goes against animal cruelty laws so he didn’t swallow it, but he did keep a live goldfish in his mouth for three seconds. Hill wanted everything to be real, and felt that he was not working as hard as everyone else in the film. Interestingly enough, when it came to filming the goldfish scene for Wolf of Wall Street, actor Hill actually wanted to swallow the goldfish in real life but couldn’t. According to Porush, “I said to one of the brokers, ‘If you don’t do more business, I’m gonna eat your goldfish.’ So I did!” Surprisingly, according to Porush himself, this event actually did occur. In the movie, viewers see Jonah Hill eat a live goldfish in the office. Like in the film, Porush was really the co-founder and ex-president of Stratton Oakmont. In the movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), actor Jonah Hill plays the character Donnie Azoff, who is based on Danny Porush. Johnny Cash did propose to June Carter onstage and out of the blueĪctor Jonah Hill about to eat a gold fish for a scene in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street.’ (Photo Credit: MovieDetails via Reddit) James Cameron actually filmed an entire scene depicting the moment Isador and Ida refused a spot onboard a lifeboat, but decided not to include it in the final version of the film. The couple was last seen together on deck holding hands. Ida also refused to board the lifeboat, telling her husband “where you go, I go.” However, Isador refused to board the lifeboat after seeing younger men being denied a chance to have a spot. When Titanic hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912, Isidor and Isa were directed to lifeboat eight. Isidor Straus was the co-owner of Macy’s Department store and he and Ida had been visiting family in Germany. The elderly couple portrayed in the movie were based on Isidor and Ida Straus. However, what arguably makes this scene even sadder is that this elderly couple was based on real people. One of the most heartbreaking scenes in James Cameron’s 1997 hit movie, Titanic, is when we see an elderly couple in bed with water rushing underneath them. Isador and Ida Straus portrayed in Titanic.
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