Leonardo Del Vecchio

Drugs, greed, hookers, and a giant scam. This would be an accurate way to summarize the "professional" life of Jordan Belfort also known as the "Wolf of Wall Street". Mr. Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is the main character in the film The Wolf of Wall Street, a film by Martin Scorsese based on the real life memoir of Jordan Belfort. He is a man consumed in himself and Scorsese makes his viewers want to embody his lifestyle. So how was he able to present and glamorize a life filled with…

The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio was one of the best movies of 2016. Taking over two years to produce it’s no wonder this movie was such a success. Starting out with no backstory we hear a woman talking and with a very ominous tone we get the feeling that something is awry. The next scene that follows starts with a scene in the forest and we get a taste of the unique visual effects that were produced through the movie. Hunting with his boy they had no idea of what was about to happen.…

A. What reasons do your authors give to explain the historical inaccuracies in the films? All historical movies are of peoples interpretations of the events, or if it was written from someone who were there at the time of the event it's still based off of what they seen or remember. Things can get lost in interpretation but director's I feel do try to stick to the best of there knowledge while maintaining a film that would be popular in ratings. Like James Cameron who written, directed,…

Fitzgerald’s roaring twenties masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Director Jack Clayton brought the novel to the big screen in 1974 with Robert Redford playing the title character, while in 2013 Director Baz Luhrmann brought his vision to life, casting Leonardo DiCaprio as the much coveted ‘Gatsby.’ Although fans will find much to appreciate in both directors’ adaptations, Luhrmann’s film will likely be judged by most modern moviegoers as superior to Clayton’s based on the spot-on casting of…

What’s eating Gilbert Grape is a fictional film about the titular character who lives in a small town, where her cares for his younger brother Arnie who has a mental disability. Gilbert is responsible for the upkeep of the family home, where he lives with his extremely obese mother and two sisters. The film states that his mother gained a great deal of weight following the passing of her husband who committed suicide and has failed to leave the house in over five years. The film focuses on…

beautiful women spreading her arms to the sea at the large deck. This man was one of the most famous male actor in the 90s, Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio is a man who is in his 40s that has a long beard, brown hair, and blue eyes. When he was the most famous actor in the Box Office, he was very handsome, tall, and simply the man that all female loved to watch. Leonardo DiCaprio was the one that was skilled and generous who lived in the wrong side of the town. It was very harsh for him to…

Andrea del Verrocchio during the prime of his life was a painter, sculptor, and goldsmith. He was named Andrea di Michele Cione born in the early 1430 's to father Michele Cione and mother Gemma. His change of last name is not known, and it can not be placed to any person that took him as an apprentice for his work as painter and sculptor.1 His father was a “fornaciao,” which was attributed to people that worked with kilns, bricks and tiles. Consequently, it is believed that his father may have…

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. He is known as the “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art, including a couple of paintings that are still a few of the world’s most famous and admired, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was connected with science and nature. Self-educated, he filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions, observations and theories. The concepts expressed in his…

It all begins with a push of a button. The process is simple. Pick one of the 196 000 pokie machines in Australia sat idle, awaiting their next victim. Insert some coins into a slot and press that green button. Mindlessly stare, wholly and completely fixated as those icons spin around and around. Powerless to those flashing lights, to that symphony of celebratory sound effects- which are more often than not, praising the loss of yoyr hard- earned money. Only to do it all over again. To 23…

Lost In The Forms, Forever In The Intelligence During the Renaissance period in life, a man by the name of Leonardo Da Vinci was doing many things that helped change the views of man. Leonardo was born out of wedlock between a respected notary and a peasant woman in 1452. During his child and teen years, Leonardo was under the care of a sculptor by the name of Andrea Del Verrocchio, who helped him kick off his art career. Like all people, Leonard had his fair share of thoughts and opinions, he…