Boiler Room is also worth seeing for one of Ben Affleck’s best performances – just a monologue really – and some decent acting by Vin Diesel, too. Unlike in WoWS, we also see the side of the victims of places like Stratton Oakmont in the form of a man who loses everything (Taylor Nichols). Here we don’t follow the firm’s founder (Tom Everett Scott), but rather one of the young men (Giovanni Ribisi) wooed by the promise of making it rich there. That makes sense because Boiler Room was actually inspired by the same true story of Belfort and his firm, Stratton Oakmont. And after Belfort sets up his own firm, I was seeing even more direct parallels. In WoWS when Jordan Belfort ( Leonardo DiCaprio) goes to work on Long Island selling penny stocks, all of a sudden I was reminded of Ben Younger’s underrated 2000 drama. As always, the following list may contain SPOILERS for the plot of WoWS, as it is intended to be a discussion of the new movie’s plot points as well as similar precursors and earlier works from people involved.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET STREAM MOVIE
The true story that WoWS is based on has been made into a movie before, though, and you can read about that and 11 other titles I recommend you check out after you’ve seen Scorsese’s latest. WoWS is also not a remake of Scorsese’s early short film It’s Not Just You, Murray!, which I posted yesterday and called a template for this new feature. Just a little bit of surviving montage material can be exclusively found on a DVD called Unseen Cinema. Unfortunately, the old film is almost entirely lost. That sounds like something Martin Scorsese would make, or something we’d want to watch after seeing the latest work by him.
It definitely isn’t a remake of the other movie titled The Wolf of Wall Street, from 1929, which stars George Bancroft as a man who gets rich in the copper trade and then loses it all through a misunderstanding with his partner, whom he believes is having an affair with his wife.