(As in the movie, he hired some old friends.) He did an enormous amount of drugs - including Lemmon 714s - employed the services of countless prostitutes, and eventually went to prison for the pump-and-dump schemes that made him rich. He went to work at Investors Center, a penny stock house, and a year later opened “a franchise of Stratton Securities, a minor league broker-dealer,” in “a friend’s car dealership in Queens.” He and his partner earned enough to buy out Stratton and form Stratton Oakmont, which he built into one of the largest over-the-counter brokerage firms in the country. Rothschild, then was laid off after Black Monday. The broad outlines of Belfort’s story are faithfully rendered by the film: A talented but struggling salesman from Long Island, he got a job at venerable investment firm L.F. Nonetheless, below is an attempt to suss out the true-to-life from the merely true-to-Belfort in the film version of his story.

It can be hard to tell, especially since some of its more outlandish tales turn out to be true. But how faithful is that book to reality? “The Wolf of Wall Street” is quite faithful to the book by Belfort that it’s based on - though there are differences the key ones are enumerated below. It’s important to keep that in mind if you decide to dig into the fact and fiction of the film. Terence Winter, who wrote the screenplay, explains the use of the technique thusly: “You are being sold the Jordan Belfort story by Jordan Belfort, and he is a very unreliable narrator.” Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuįor “The Wolf of Wall Street,” his latest collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese forewent his signature voiceover in favor of direct address: Throughout the movie, DiCaprio, playing the lupine financial huckster Jordan Belfort, looks into the camera and speaks right to the audience.

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