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Chapter 438: Ta-ta-ta

"Fuck you, Wall Street bastards, they're just living a life of luxury and debauchery by taking my money."

"I am about to jump off the building, but they are just enjoying themselves."

"I was already on the rooftop ready to jump off, but now I'm not going to jump anymore."

"I'm so pissed off right now, I'm going to pick up my phone and shoot these scumbags."

"If I don't shoot them, I won't be able to vent my hatred!"

Some people who were standing on the rooftops due to the financial crisis suddenly gave up their plans to jump. After leaving abusive comments on movie review websites such as Rotten Tomatoes, they decided to pick up their guns.

This was something Wang Shu and Matt Damon had not expected.

In the original timeline, when "The Wolf of Wall Street" was released, the United States had long since emerged from the quagmire of the financial crisis and ushered in a sustained bull market.

In a bull market, as long as you are not greedy, everyone, whether human or ghost, can be a stock trading "expert".

In this atmosphere, the release of "The Wolf of Wall Street" will not stir up many people's emotions.

But now, the financial crisis has broken out and a lot of people have lost everything and are forced to leave their homes.

The environment is depressing and negative emotions are running high. The person standing on the rooftop will not take the initiative to blame himself, so he can only blame Wall Street for having to stand on the rooftop.

There are also many film reviews posted by well-known film critics on IMDb. They appear so quickly, they must be paid to do so.

One well-known user commented: "The long-awaited movie 'The Wolf of Wall Street' is finally out!"

“I think if I have time later, I will go and watch it again.”

“Although the movie is three hours long, it doesn’t feel slow at all.”

"The plot is well-paced, the dialogue is witty, the editing is sharp and accurate, and the characters are distinct."

"Although Scarlett Johansson is a bit of a flop, she is the most stunning and beautiful in this movie, and her performance is extremely bold and unrestrained. Just watching her is worth the money. The rest are just average."

"The theme of the movie is 'addiction'. Stock trading is addiction, drugs is addiction, hanging out on forums is addiction, and all pursuits of wealth, fame, and fortune in life are addictions. Once you get addicted, it's hard to quit."

"Life is just a continuous cycle of switching from one addiction to another. I'm afraid only gods can escape this vicious circle."

"On the first day that the male protagonist Matt started working, his boss asked him what a manager does. The young Matt talked about serving customers and making money for the company, which is a win-win situation."

"The boss told him to f*** off. What managers do is to take the clients' money into their own pockets. If the clients make money from stock trading and they use the money to buy houses or yachts, then you have failed. This is because the virtual numbers have become real things. What you have to do is to recommend stocks to them again, so that they will stay addicted to the virtual stock market forever and keep buying and selling. Then you will win."

“As for whether the client wins or not? As long as the money is still in the virtual world, it is useless even if he makes a hundred times the profit. It is real only when it is converted into material things. Similarly, no matter where the money is earned, it is virtual if it is kept in the bank or under the pillow. It is real only when it is spent and enjoyed. Otherwise, those colorful papers are no different from toilet paper.”

"Matt understood what his mentor meant. He went out on his own and recommended junk stocks. He knew that many of them were black holes, but the company grew bigger and bigger because of this. He also knew that the money earned was real only if it was spent. As a result, he did not become addicted to stocks, but became addicted to drugs and sex. He had all kinds of beautiful women, sports cars, mansions, and airplanes, and he was drunk and took drugs, and was extremely licentious."

“And this is all real on Wall Street.”

"When I saw this, I suddenly realized that wasn't it because I was fooled by those rubbish recommendations on Wall Street and bought rubbish stocks that I'm losing a lot of money now?"

"It was obvious that the financial crisis was about to come, but those rubbish still fooled me into thinking that after a big drop, there would be a big rise, and I could buy at the bottom and make a lot of money. There was only a bull market and no bear market. I was fooled by them and I put in a lot of money again."

"If I didn't have some money, I would have gone to the rooftop by now!"

“f***!”

"Sorry, I got so excited that I went off topic!"

"Now when we talk about the federal investigation at the end of the movie, Matt could have just let go of the company, paid the fine, and never gotten involved again. He would have had enough money to continue to live such a lavish life."

“But he didn’t do it after all!”

"why?"

"Because Matt is addicted, addicted to fame."

"He enjoys the envious looks and thunderous applause every time he speaks, the reputation as a celebrity, and the status of being regarded as a savior by his employees."

“He was unwilling to quit.”

"The ending is pretty predictable. He's thrown into jail, his wife and children are separated, and all his property is confiscated. The movie ends with Matt returning to his roots in sales after he's released from jail - training grassroots sales staff."

"It's really a box full of gold, a box full of silver, but life is just a dream in the blink of an eye."

"The brilliance of this film lies in that it does not stand on the commanding heights of moral admonitions and repeat the clichés of the main theme of 'those who commit adultery will be punished, and those who enforce the law will be honored.'"

"The last shot of the movie, in which the wealthy and powerful FBI agent who is obsessed with Matt, is him riding alone on the dirty and dim New York subway to get off work, with an indescribable sadness in his eyes."

"Maybe he was thinking about his enemy Matt's mocking remark: 'The money I spend on a single meal is enough for you to work for a whole year.'"

"Henry in Goodfellas also asked his parents: Do you want me to spend my future commuting to work on the subway every day?"

"Yes, Henry and his friends are very free. The excitement of the gang allows them to escape from the busy life of ordinary people. However, the tragic fate of the protagonist is doomed. Entering this line is like getting addicted. Even if you succeed countless times, you will be finished if you fail once."

“The shortcomings of The Wolf of Wall Street are also obvious.”

"The film sometimes goes too far in highlighting the extravagance of the nouveau riche, and lacks the necessary respect for women and the disabled."

"The male perspective of the whole film is quite obvious, and women are almost reduced to playthings. There is a scene at a company's carnival party where a disabled dwarf is thrown as a toy, and a group of people make fun of and play with the dwarf. It is also unbearable."

"Also, there are a lot of dirty words throughout the film."

"Of course, the shortcomings I mentioned may have been intentional by the director."

"After all, this is a biographical film, adapted from a true story."

“These contents may be true.”

"The director would shoot it this way to reflect the reality."

Another well-known user commented: "Luxury cars, naked women, sensual pleasures, promiscuous sex and drug-taking."

"After watching the whole movie till the end, I actually forgot that it was an R-rated movie."

"Instead, the most memorable part is the complex expression of the police officer on the subway at the end of the film and the abrupt ending after the last shot."

"The FBI agent finally sent the criminal to prison. In his eyes, this was his belief, killing the rich and helping the poor. But when he put down the newspaper and looked around the subway, he saw only indifferent poor people."

“He knew deep down that there was a chasm between the two classes that could never be bridged.”

"The rich even have the 'opportunity' to reduce their 20-year prison sentence to 36 months, and serving their sentence is like playing baseball on a baseball field in paradise, with more ideas brewing in their minds on how to make money from the poor."

"The last shot of the movie, from the faces of the audience in the front row to the audience in the back row, is full of poor people who are eager to get rich quickly."

"After a long time, what Belford is doing now, selling sales ideas to the poor, is not fundamentally different from selling penny stocks to the poor back then."

"As he himself said, smart rich people are not stupid enough to buy penny stocks, and successful businessmen do not need to listen to so-called sales lectures."

"Although Belford finally made up his mind to quit drugs and alcohol and become a public figure after experiencing a life-and-death moment at sea and the country's legal reform, his beliefs have never changed, that is, the social hierarchy measured by money." "Who has seen through this society? What is the true standard for measuring good and evil? I think this is what the director wants to convey to the audience through the lens."

In the original timeline, when The Wolf of Wall Street premiered, the Academy Awards judges publicly insulted the director and belittled The Wolf of Wall Street as garbage.

After this incident, it was doomed that "The Wolf of Wall Street" would not win any awards.

It's different now.

Now, there are no Academy Awards judges jumping out in anger to insult and ridicule.

The reason is that we are in the midst of a global financial crisis, and the impact of the financial crisis is huge.

Even some stock market judges were taught a lesson by the financial crisis, causing their assets to shrink significantly.

They also felt resentful and unhappy.

Especially through the movie, many people realized that even though the financial crisis was about to break out, people on Wall Street were still deceiving retail investors into sending money into the stock market.

And they left quietly.

Realizing this, I became even more angry.

On January 1, the first day box office of "The Wolf of Wall Street" was released, which was 10 million US dollars.

For a biographical film that was only released in 1865 theaters, revenue of 860 million is already an extremely good result.

Matt Damon and the investors were quite satisfied with the result but also felt very regretful.

If we had known that "The Wolf of Wall Street" would be so popular, we would have increased the publicity and tried to release it in more theaters!

Wang Shu didn't react much to this.

Because no matter how much the box office revenue is, he won’t get any share of it.

"860 million box office on the first day, amazing!"

Wang Shu and Gong Li are having dinner together at a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles.

Gong Li took a bite of the dish, looked at Wang Shu and said with a smile.

Wang Shu said helplessly: "This first-day box office performance is just so-so in Hollywood, nothing special."

Gong Li shook her head and said, "Your film The Wolf of Wall Street is a biographical film, and it was shown in more than a thousand theaters. To have such a good box office performance is already an excellent achievement."

"There are countless directors in Hollywood who are not as good as you."

"Of course, if you want to compare with those world-famous directors, then just ignore what I said."

"Maybe," Wang Shu responded modestly after hearing this.

Gong Li did not continue the topic, but asked: "Aren't you afraid of offending people by making this movie?"

Gong Li has already seen the movie, which reveals the ugliness of Wall Street and even the rich.

This is something that offends people.

With this kind of content, it wouldn't even pass review in the mainland.

The things in the movie are true, but they cannot be said openly.

Wang Shu smiled and said, "Since Jordan Belfort can publish a book in prison and it sells well, what's the problem with me bringing it to the big screen?"

"Also, everything I film is based on true stories, and Jordan Belfort endorses it."

"Even if someone is offended, it is Jordan Belfort who offends people."

"I'm just trying to win awards with this movie."

Gong Li smiled when she heard this and asked, "Are you confident you can win the Golden Globe and Oscar?"

Although she asked this, she didn't think Wang Shu could win the award.

Because the content presented in "The Wolf of Wall Street" is different from the concepts of the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars.

Whether it is the Golden Globe Awards or the Oscars, there are correct answers. "The Wolf of Wall Street" is indeed a biographical film, but the content is uncomfortable and may not be pleasing.

Gong Li's thinking is different from that of European and American artists such as Matt Damon.

She looks at this from an Eastern perspective, and the content is indeed disturbing.

But from the perspective of Matt Damon and others, they feel that this biographical film has a great chance of winning an award.

In the original timeline, director Martin Scorsese and leading actor Leo DiCaprio were all confident in this movie.

Especially Leonardo DiCaprio, he has become more picky about scripts since he became famous.

If he doesn't like the script, he basically won't act in it.

If the Oscar judges hadn't jumped out and gave them a wake-up call during the premiere, they would have remained confident.

Until I encountered this, I began to feel a little less confident about winning the award.

It is now 2009. Not only are the judges of the Academy Awards different, but the financial crisis is also raging in the United States.

Even if some people don't like the content, they have to keep it to themselves amid the financial crisis.

Because, any boycott of "The Wolf of Wall Street" is tantamount to going against the millions of ordinary Americans who have been affected by the financial crisis.

Anyone who cares about their reputation after the Academy Awards must treat the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" with caution.

"If I didn't have confidence, I wouldn't have made this movie." Wang Shu continued with a smile.

Gong Li nodded without saying much. After all, the Golden Globe Awards would be held in a week, and it would not be nice to speak ill of the event.

What's more, Wang Shu is so confident, it would be bad to be humiliated by his bad words.

But no matter what, Gong Li couldn't help but marvel in her heart.

It took her 20 years of hard work to make her way from the domestic entertainment industry to Hollywood.

After coming to Hollywood, her career has not been smooth, which made her clearly feel that it is extremely difficult for Chinese actors to make a name for themselves in Hollywood.

The emergence of Li Xiaolong and Chen Long can no longer be replicated.

Who would have thought that Wang Shu, so young, would have made such a big name for himself just after arriving in Hollywood!

Even she, the matchmaker, did not expect this.

(End of this chapter)