Post #4 Adapting Book 2

Blog 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.