The Wolf of Wall Street
1. Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is an aspiring stock broker in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street. He starts his career out in an entry level position at a brokerage firm on Wall Street. After the crash of the stock market in 1987, Belfort lost his job and found new employment at a brokerage that dealt with penny stocks. After seeing the potential of return and his success, at the age of 20 along with his trusted friends founds his own brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont. Belfort makes a fortune by duping wealthy investors and embezzling money. Belfort’s first time wealth brings along an addition of sex and drugs, which lead not only his downfall but an investigation from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) …show more content…
In the film “The Wolf of Wall Street” viewers watch ones, Jordan Belfort, rise into substantial wealth, addition to substances, ultimate fall, and what seems to be reintegration into the world. The films initial message about substance use is that it is a life enhancing thing. This starts when Belfort is first introduced drugs by his boss, his boss explains that it helps him make money and get through the day. This idolization of substance use continues throughout the majority of the film by showing multiple employees using them in the workplace as they are making an abundance of money and multiple people using multiple substances at glamorous parties while everyone is having a grand time. However, the films message about substance abuse starts taking a turn for the worse when the FBI and SEC investigation starts to gather more information about Belfort’s brokerage firm. The film starts to depict the negative effects of substance use when they start displaying how substances negatively affect the brain, ruin families, ruin careers, and ruin friendships. The film shows Belfort’s plunge from triumph, life decision to get sober a sign from god when he almost died at sea, become sober, relapse, get convicted, go to jail, and what seems to be become sober and reintegrated into society. The film goes back and forth with its overall message about substance abuse. This because when Belfort first becomes sober, viewers seem all is well, then Belfort has a conversation with his good old friend Donnie where he says “Being sober sucks. I want to kill myself”, then soon after relapses and goes to jail. At the very end of the film we see a small sneak peak of Belfort after jail, where he appears to be sober and doing
1. Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is an aspiring stock broker in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street. He starts his career out in an entry level position at a brokerage firm on Wall Street. After the crash of the stock market in 1987, Belfort lost his job and found new employment at a brokerage that dealt with penny stocks. After seeing the potential of return and his success, at the age of 20 along with his trusted friends founds his own brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont. Belfort makes a fortune by duping wealthy investors and embezzling money. Belfort’s first time wealth brings along an addition of sex and drugs, which lead not only his downfall but an investigation from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) …show more content…
In the film “The Wolf of Wall Street” viewers watch ones, Jordan Belfort, rise into substantial wealth, addition to substances, ultimate fall, and what seems to be reintegration into the world. The films initial message about substance use is that it is a life enhancing thing. This starts when Belfort is first introduced drugs by his boss, his boss explains that it helps him make money and get through the day. This idolization of substance use continues throughout the majority of the film by showing multiple employees using them in the workplace as they are making an abundance of money and multiple people using multiple substances at glamorous parties while everyone is having a grand time. However, the films message about substance abuse starts taking a turn for the worse when the FBI and SEC investigation starts to gather more information about Belfort’s brokerage firm. The film starts to depict the negative effects of substance use when they start displaying how substances negatively affect the brain, ruin families, ruin careers, and ruin friendships. The film shows Belfort’s plunge from triumph, life decision to get sober a sign from god when he almost died at sea, become sober, relapse, get convicted, go to jail, and what seems to be become sober and reintegrated into society. The film goes back and forth with its overall message about substance abuse. This because when Belfort first becomes sober, viewers seem all is well, then Belfort has a conversation with his good old friend Donnie where he says “Being sober sucks. I want to kill myself”, then soon after relapses and goes to jail. At the very end of the film we see a small sneak peak of Belfort after jail, where he appears to be sober and doing