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Post #4
There is a scene where
Jordan Belfort and his main salesmen are sitting around a table in a diner
waiting to hear Jordan’s proposition. Jordan was asking his friends if they
wanted to make money because most of them were sleazy salesmen who sold weed on
the side of their day job. He asks his lude dealer to sell him a pen and he
says to Jordan “Okay could you please write your name down on that napkin
there?” and Jordan replies, “I can’t I don’t have a pen.” The lude dealer
explains, “Exactly, supply and demand my friend.” This scene is essential
because these guys barely graduated high school but they could sell anything
which was scary.
Jordan’s Bachelor party
takes place in Vegas and he completely ruins a penthouse. He goes into detail
about all of the drugs and crazy things that happened costing him a total of
2.2 million dollars in one weekend. This scene is important because it shows
how obscene and ruthless these guys were about spending money.
After Jordan decides to
go sober Danny comes over to see how he is doing and tells him not to worry
about the money the lawyer are charging him because Danny and the guys were
going to cover it. Jordan is drinking a non-alcoholic beer by the pool and
Danny is baffled by the concept of his beer. He doesn’t understand the purpose
of life if he can’t get under the influence. This scene is essential to show
how twisted these guys think.
There is a scene were
Jordan is talking about his watch. The scene goes on to talk about how he used
to wear a solid gold Rolex, but his wife tells him that he needs to tone it
down and get a watch with a leather strap to look more conservative. From then
on he wore a very expensive brown strap bracelet. This scene is not essential
because it takes away from the real greed that goes on in the story.
Another scene I wouldn’t
adapt is when he talks about the linen in his bedroom. Talking about the linen
would just be annoying; by showing the quality in the movie would be much more
effective without leaving the audience annoyed.
