The huge controversy that such a film will cause after it is released, of course, is already well understood by the old horse's decades of experience. But whether it was him or the starring Leonardo, he did not restrain himself a little because of this. Instead, he was full of excitement, using a frequency of once every few minutes, a large number of scenes of sex and drugs, as well as the success of material society such as car beauty, aircraft yacht and so on. The standard of , constantly stimulates the audience's G-spot, and at the same time makes people's integrity shattered, they continue to enjoy the most authentic desire from the sense of substitution.
As a film based on an autobiography, and the author himself serves as one of the co-writers, he first decided to portray the protagonist, which cannot be too ugly. This memoir written in prison by Jordan Belfort, a famous Wall Street financial broker, was rumored to be vying for the right of adaptation a few years ago. In the end, the author's original name appearance and the use of a lot of confessions gave the film a strong autobiographical style. For those of us who are completely unfamiliar in that field, it is unknown whether we read the true and false Wall Street anecdotes in the film whether we have a deep hatred for financial vampires or a sincere envy of sensuality.
Money is the most beautiful thing in the world because it can be exchanged for almost anything you want. It is the dirtiest thing in the world. For it, relatives can turn against each other and lovers can become enemies. friend? I'm sorry, in the eyes of real businessmen, this word probably does not exist at all.
For us living in this age, money has almost replaced Jehovah, Allah and Shakyamuni as the religion we worship. When our value is defined by a series of numbers, when our success is measured by the mantissa on our personal account, money is no longer a simple medium of barter, but has become something more important than the soul.
The game of money has become finance, and Wall Street, the financial center of the world, has naturally become the craziest place on earth. Therefore, when an anti-capitalist revolution is called "Occupy Wall Street", it is self-evident what the dragon vein of the American Empire is. Every day, how much money from all over the world is turned into a game of numbers here. Some people have gone from nothing to become wealthy, and some people have gone from wealth to prisoners.
Jordan, known as the "Wolf of Wall Street", has gone through these two opposite life trajectories. When he was a newborn calf, with his three-inch tongue, he absorbed the flesh and blood of every person who trusted him like a gadfly. The hype and the contempt in the mouth were projected onto the customer on the other end of the phone at the same time. He wandered on the edge of law and morality, using specious concepts and carefully crafted dreams of making a fortune to fight wars without gunpowder smoke.
The success of Jordan and his company in this film once again illustrates a truth: most of the success in the world will fall into the hands of people who are particularly eloquent and whose speeches are particularly provocative. In the film, Jordan stood on the stage and used a very passionate voice to make a group of employees fall into the so-called "American dream". The passionate speech of the Nazi believers. The difference is that what Jordan uses to inspire everyone is not the illusory metaphysical ideology of the supremacy of the country and race, but the real vision and possibility of getting rich overnight.
If one were to look for an organization similar to a stockbroking firm in the world, in addition to the fascist Nazis, there were gangsters who used violence and blood as chips. By the way, it is the dark night world that Lao Ma's movies are best at expressing. Jordan and the godfathers also used unlawful means to obtain wealth for themselves, and they also needed to deal with official forces such as the FBI. Jordan, however, did not have to defend his poor sphere of influence by reaping the lives of his enemies. The highly developed information society has made the whole world his territory, money has become a number, and it is rapidly circulating on the entire earth from Europe to the Americas, from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere, and this torrent is turbulent enough to surpass it. On the traditional national level, let money become the greatest or even the only ruler of the whole world.
The sensual love between men and women, and the unbridled addiction to drugs and alcohol. Outside of finance, the film shows us a portrait of the decadent and depraved life of the emerging financial aristocracy. You can think of it as the inability of money to bring positive meanings to life, thus depriving these wealthy people of their spiritual support. But apart from this somewhat far-fetched positive energy, the film completely fails to embody any Hollywood theme. There is no spiritual redemption, no confrontation between good and evil, or even any moral denial. Lao Ma has always been an alternative in Hollywood, but this time, his alternative has gone too far. With unabashed dispassionate perspective and a completely neutral emotional balance, he tells the story of the legendary figure's controversial financial career. The only thing with moral inclination and irony is the partner's betrayal of Jordan, and Jordan's desperate counter-betrayal. And this out-and-out relationship between people makes the moral paleness of the film more obvious.
With this film, Xiao Lizi was once again nominated for an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Of course, he also lost no suspense in the film, Matthew McConaughey, who had a cameo appearance as his first boss in this film. Countless public opinions all over the world have complained about his grievances, as if to portray him as another tragic hero who is determined to attack like a golden man after Lao Ma himself, but often falls under the last bullet of the last battle. In fact, Leonardo lost one male supporting role and three male lead nominations, which is really not worth mentioning in the 86-year history of Oscar Huanghuang. Aunt Mei has been nominated for 18 times, but she has only been selected three times, and Peter O'Toole, who just went west at the end of last year, has created an alternative legend of nominated actor eight times in his life but won nothing.
Not to mention the number of nominations, in terms of acting alone, Xiao Lizi is not comparable to the two seniors. The performance that has reached the realm is free and easy to do. Merrill Streep can play the iron lady who controls the family and country, and can play the fashion devil who is attentive and convincing. At the same time, She can still sing and dance in "Mamma Mia", and she can still be inseparable like a child in "Long Dream of Covered Bridge". On the other hand, Leonardo DiCaprio, it is true, he is no longer the young boy with red lips and white teeth in "Romeo and Juliet Postmodern", nor is he the jade face who sacrificed himself to save his lover in the sunken ship and swept the world's billions of girls Flower man. The action of breaking with the idol role and the slightly bloated middle-aged man's figure show Xiao Lizi's determination to go all the way on the road of "acting school", but whether it is "Infernal Affairs" or "Shutter Island" The policeman in "The Great Gatsby" and "The Aviator", the rich man in "Revolutionary Road", "Django Unchained" and "Inception", etc., although he can be seen Efforts in opening up the way of drama, but there are some suspicions of one thousand people.
The basic requirement of a good actor, of course, is to be able to put the inner drama on the face. But some of the details can be seen on the level of three, six, nine and so on. Exaggerating and jokingly saying that it can show the psychological difference between the dead father and the dead mother, this is the cow B. But starting from "The Aviator", Xiao Lizi's inner drama always has some routine and stylized performance methods. Find a close-up shot of him in any film and put it in any other film, and you can't find too much incongruity. As an actor who has just turned old, he is in the golden age of his acting career
Similarly, Lao Ma was nominated for Best Director again for this film, which is his eighth personal time. An interesting phenomenon is that although Martin's more active time as a director should belong to the 1970s and 1980s, five of his eight nominations are within this century. And within this century, he directed a total of only 6 feature films. Whether the old man has gradually found a taste to please the academy judges, or whether the Oscar voters have gradually learned to respect the old and the virtuous, we do not know. But in any case, for an elderly man, still fighting for his dream is a more inspirational thing than any movie in itself. In my country, Lao Ma is going to be an old artist with "virtue and art" anyway, and put it on the stage of "art life" for people to admire. Of course, the premise is that he did not become the director of a certain studio before retiring at the age of 60 and moved to film administration.
Bless the old director, and bless everyone who still has dreams and struggles for them.
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