I felt the film told a more cohesive story, in spite of its threehour length, whereas the book meandered. Whats the difference between the wolf of wall street the book and the wolf of wall street the movie. The wolf of wall street, the book and the movie, are both essentially the products of a completely unreliable narrator, jordan belfort himself. It was a time of unbridled greed, a time of wanton.
In this astounding account, wall streets notorious bad boythe original milliondollaraweek stock chopperleads us. The wolf of wall street is a memoir by former stockbroker and trader jordan belfort, first published in september 2007 by bantam books, then adapted into a. Now a major motion picture directed by martin scorsese and starring leonardo dicaprio new york times bestsellerby day he made thousands of dollars a minute. Truthfully, i have very little interest in anything having to deal with stocks or wall street.
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