Movie Quote/Trivia of the Day THIS CONTAINS NO SPOILERS Jordan Belfort - Let me tell you something. Theres no nobility in poverty. Ive been a poor man, and Ive been a rich man. And I choose rich every f*cking time. -Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street) Did you know? Matthew McConaugheys scenes were shot on the second week of filming. The chest beating and humming performed by him was improvised and actually a warming up ritual that he performs before acting. When Leonardo DiCaprio saw it while filming, the brief shot of him looking away uneasily from the camera was actually him looking at Martin Scorsese for approval. DiCaprio encouraged them to include it in their scene and later claimed it set the tone for the rest of the film. The actors snorted crushed B vitamins for scenes involving cocaine. The scene where Brad punches Donnie is real, in fact Jon Bernthal hit Jonah Hill so hard that the prosthetic teeth he was wearing split and flew out of his mouth. Martin Scorsese then proceeded to film Hills face swelling in real time. Wanting to work with Scorsese, Jonah Hill took a pay cut by being paid the SAG minimum, which was $60,000. Martin Scorsese claimed that the sequence of Jordan attempting to get in his car while overdosed on lemons was improvised on the day of filming, and that it was Leonardo DiCaprios idea to open the car door with his foot. DiCaprio strained his back during the scene, and was only able to perform the stunt once. Jordan Belfort coached DiCaprio on his behavior, especially instructing him in the various ways he had reacted to the Quaaludes he abused as well as his drugged confrontation with Danny Porush. A majority of the film was improvised, which Martin Scorsese encourages his actors to do. DiCaprio was obsessed with playing Jordan Belfort since getting a hold of the book back in 2007, DiCaprio has been focused on turning the depraved tale of Belfort into a film. However, he wasnt just interested in this storys connection to the most recent collapse on Wall Street, he was also attracted to Jordans honest and uncompromising portrayal of what he actually experienced. On a routine visit, Steven Spielberg spent a day on the set watching the production shoot of the Steve Madden speech. Martin Scorsese claims that Spielberg essentially co-directed the scene, giving advice to actors and suggesting camera angles. In real life, Belfort says the model for his get-rich-quick, and by-any-means greedy behavior was Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. In order to show Jordans state of mind, director of photography Rodrigo Prieto constantly switches lens types. For scenes where Jordan has clarity and clear mind state, flat spherical lenses are used while in stages where he does not, anamorphic lenses are used. Longer focal lenses are used from the stage where Jordan is being pursued by Denham and his team to reflect Belforts unraveling and the sense of being spied upon. Martin Scorsese needed a quick pick up shot of the fasten your seat belt blinking sign for the airplane scene but didnt want to waste time and money on setting up a Gimbel. Robert Legato, the effects supervisor, took a reference video of one during a flight with his iPhone to show Scorsese. Upon seeing the footage, Scorsese said Great. Lets just use that. Thus, the film became Scorseses first movie to incorporate footage taken from an iPhone. When Jordan Belfort is interviewed by the FBI agents on his yacht, he hands one of them a list of guests at his wedding. The names on it are actual, real-life names of crew members that worked on the film. The initial cut of the film ran approximately four hours long.
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