The Wolf of Wall Street is a film filled with sex, drugs, and lots of money. It was directed by Martin Scorsese, and released on December 25th, 2013. The movie revolves around the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who founded his brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont. During the commercial, the characters appear to be surrounded by luxurious amenities, such as gorgeous homes and expensive vehicles. They show the use of illegal substances and also show how employees on Wall Street foolishly spend their money. Is this truly how they actually spend their money or is it just how Hollywood portrays the lifestyle of Wall Street employees? I am going to support the lifestyle of Wall Street employees and wealthy people by showing what they spend their
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The Wolf of Wall Street commercial does an exceptional job showing the viewers how Wall Street employees spend their money, and what absurd things they spend it on. Martin Scorsese does a good job by using expensive vehicles like the Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari 512, and by also using a scene where they are on a huge yacht. Besides cars, he uses big luxurious homes with big pools as well as scenes where they are in fancy restaurants. But is this really how stockbrokers spend their money?
Senior editor at The Atlantic, Derek Thompson writes in his article, Rich People Are Great at Spending Money to Make Their Kids Rich, Too, suggests that the poor spend relatively more on what keep them alive and the rich spend more on what will keep them rich. Thompson himself writes, “Poverty is a chaos that screams in the present tense, and the anxiety of having no money forces poorer families to direct their attention to immediate concerns” (Derek Thompson). In other words, Thompson point is that if people are part of the lower 10 percent they tend to worry more about getting through the day, rather than thinking in the future. He supports his claim by first demonstrating a chart of how all income groups spend their …show more content…
He supports his claim by first talking about a psychologist who works for financial professionals and how his patients say they miss the good times, then by demonstrating that a quarter of the 26 stockbrokers studied on by Alden Cass suffered from depression and how they were the ones making more money, and finally by comparing how financial professionals actually have a lower rate of divorce and substance abuse compared to other professions. Weidner’s purpose is to explain how the media affects the public’s view of financial professionals in order to contrast their speculations and deliver the truth. In the article David mentions that Alden’s patients would say “Boy, I miss the good times” (Paragraph 6). What the patients were trying to say was they miss the times when they would just spend their money on drugs and alcohol to party all the time. I think they don’t miss the good times, I think they miss the quaaludes and all their effects. After doing some research I found out that some side effects of Quaaludes are dizziness, reduced heart rate, and an increased sexual arousal. Which seems accurate when comparing the behavior of the characters in the trailer to what the effects of the drug
The Wolf of Wall Street commercial does an exceptional job showing the viewers how Wall Street employees spend their money, and what absurd things they spend it on. Martin Scorsese does a good job by using expensive vehicles like the Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari 512, and by also using a scene where they are on a huge yacht. Besides cars, he uses big luxurious homes with big pools as well as scenes where they are in fancy restaurants. But is this really how stockbrokers spend their money?
Senior editor at The Atlantic, Derek Thompson writes in his article, Rich People Are Great at Spending Money to Make Their Kids Rich, Too, suggests that the poor spend relatively more on what keep them alive and the rich spend more on what will keep them rich. Thompson himself writes, “Poverty is a chaos that screams in the present tense, and the anxiety of having no money forces poorer families to direct their attention to immediate concerns” (Derek Thompson). In other words, Thompson point is that if people are part of the lower 10 percent they tend to worry more about getting through the day, rather than thinking in the future. He supports his claim by first demonstrating a chart of how all income groups spend their …show more content…
He supports his claim by first talking about a psychologist who works for financial professionals and how his patients say they miss the good times, then by demonstrating that a quarter of the 26 stockbrokers studied on by Alden Cass suffered from depression and how they were the ones making more money, and finally by comparing how financial professionals actually have a lower rate of divorce and substance abuse compared to other professions. Weidner’s purpose is to explain how the media affects the public’s view of financial professionals in order to contrast their speculations and deliver the truth. In the article David mentions that Alden’s patients would say “Boy, I miss the good times” (Paragraph 6). What the patients were trying to say was they miss the times when they would just spend their money on drugs and alcohol to party all the time. I think they don’t miss the good times, I think they miss the quaaludes and all their effects. After doing some research I found out that some side effects of Quaaludes are dizziness, reduced heart rate, and an increased sexual arousal. Which seems accurate when comparing the behavior of the characters in the trailer to what the effects of the drug