Chapter I: Introduction

a. Biography of Director

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and

actor. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one

of the most significant and influential directors in film history.

Scorsese studied at New York University where he received a bachelor’s degree

in English Literature in 1964, and received a Masters in Fine Arts in film from

NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1966.

He served as assistant director and an editor of the

documentary Woodstock (1970) and won critical and popular acclaim for Mean

Streets (1973), which first paired him with actor and frequent collaborator Robert De

Niro. In 1976, Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), also starring De Niro, was awarded the

Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and he followed that film with New York, New

York (1977) and The Last Waltz (1978). Scorsese directed De Niro to an Oscar-winning

performance as boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980), which received eight

Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and is hailed as

one of the masterpieces of modern cinema. Scorsese went on to direct The Color of

Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Cape

Fear (1991), The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995) and Kundun (1997), among

other films. Commissioned by the British Film Institute to celebrate the 100th

anniversary of the birth of cinema, Scorsese completed the four-hour

documentary, Century of Cinema: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through

American Movies (1995), co-directed by Michael Henry Wilson.

His long-cherished project, Gangs of New York (2002), earned numerous critical honors,

including a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the Howard Hughes biopic The

Aviator (2004) won five Academy Awards, in addition to the Golden Globe and BAFTA

awards for Best Picture. Scorsese won his first Academy Award for Best Director for The

Departed (2006), which was also honored with the Director's Guild of America, Golden

Globe, New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and Critic's Choice awards for

Best Director, in addition to four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Scorsese's

documentary of the Rolling Stones in concert, Shine a Light (2008), followed, with the

successful thriller Shutter Island (2010) two years later. Scorsese received his seventh

Academy Award nomination for Best Director, as well as a Golden Globe Award,

for Hugo (2011), which went on to win five Academy Awards.

Scorsese also serves as executive producer on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010)

for which he directed the pilot episode. Scorsese's additional awards and honors include

the Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival (1995), the AFI Life Achievement Award

(1997), the Honoree at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 25th Gala Tribute (1998), the

DGA Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), The Kennedy Center Honors (2007) and the

HFPA Cecil B. DeMille Award (2010). Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have

worked together on five separate occasions: Gangs of New York (2002), The

Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall

Street (2013).
b. The Synopsis of Film

Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F.

Rothschild. His boss, Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey), introduces him to the

“Greed is Good” stockbroker culture of the day rife with easy drugs, easy women, and

easy money.

When Black Monday hits in October, Jordan is out of a job. He takes a new

position at a brokerage firm out on Long Island that specializes in penny stocks. There,

he uses an aggressive sales pitch with investors that returns high commissions, and he

makes a ton of money.

Jordan and his neighbor, Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), go into business for

themselves; giving the firm the respectable-sounding name of Stratton Oakmont. Jordan

then hires some friends, and teaches them the art of hard selling. Soon, their success

attracts the attention of Forbes Magazine. Their scathing exposé on the firm actually

helps Stratton Oakmont more than it hurts them. Ambitious men and women with fortune

in their eyes flock to the firm.

As Jordan becomes more and more successful, he slips into a lifestyle of sex,

drugs, and debauchery. After he has an affair with a lady named Naomi Lapaglia (Margot

Robbie), Jordan’s wife divorces him. So, he marries the young hottie.

Meanwhile, the good-ole SEC and the FBI begin an investigation on Stratton

Oakmont. After Jordan illegally makes $22 million on the Steve Madden IPO, the FBI

further intensifies their scrutiny of his dealings. Jordan, with the help of an unscrupulous
banker named Jean-Jacques Saurel (Jean Dujardin), opens a Swiss bank account in the

name of Naomi’s Aunt Emma (Joanna Lumley) to hide his money from the law. He picks

Emma because she’s a British national, and thus outside of U.S. authority’s reach. He

then recruits his wife and Brad Bodnick (Jon Bernthal)’s in-laws, who have European

passports, to smuggle the money into Switzerland.

Unfortunately, Donnie gets into fight with Brad which gets Brad arrested while

Donnie sneaks away, but Brad doesn’t rat his friends out to the police…just yet. It’s at

this time that Jordan’s private investigator learns the FBI is wiretapping his phones.

Jordan’s father advises him to leave Stratton Oakmont, and play it cool for awhile so his

lawyer can negotiate a deal to keep him out of prison. As Jordan goes to quit, he talks

himself into staying during his goodbye speech to his workers.

Soon, Aunt Emma dies while Jordan, Donnie, and their families are on vacation in

Italy. Jordan rushes off to Switzerland to get his money out of Emma’s account. He has

his yacht’s captain to sail to Monaco to skirt border controls, but a storm capsizes the

ship along the way. Then, a seagull flies into their rescue plane’s engine. Jordan believes

this to be a sign from God, and he looks to sober up and change his lifestyle.

A few years pass before the FBI is able to arrest Jordan. They only manage to do

so because his corrupt banker, Saurel, gets himself arrested in Florida on unrelated

charges. Once there, he rats Jordan out to the Feds.

By now, the evidence against Jordan is overwhelming, so he agrees to rat out his

colleagues in exchange for leniency. Naomi abandons Jordan, and files for divorce;
wanting full custody of their children. This leads to an argument where he tries to drive

away with his daughter, but he crashes his car into a pillar first while pulling out of the

garage.

The next morning, the FBI has Jordan wear a wire to work, but he’s kind enough

to slip a note of warning to Donnie. Donnie keeps this note, and later rats Jordan out to

the FBI over it. They arrest Jordan for breaching his side of the deal. The FBI then raids

Stratton Oakmont, and shuts it down.

Jordan still manages to receive a reduced sentence for his testimony even though

he breached the terms of his deal with the Feds. He serves three years in a minimum

security prison, and once he gets out, he earns a pretty good living off of sales technique

seminars, his autobiography, and a little film based on that life story.
 Chapter II:

The Analysis

a. Theme

Major Theme

The theme is Biography of Jordan Belfort and his firm, Stratton Oakmont. The writer

makes the theme because Jordan’s story is pretty interesting to be shared.

Minor Theme

The minor themes are about crime, comedy and drama. The movie tell us about Stratton

Oakmont’s illegal business and also Jordan’s lifestyle that dominated by sex, drugs and

wealth.

b. Character

Main Character

Jordan Belfort

Minor Character

Donnie Azoff, Naomi Lapaglia, Patrick Denham, Max Belfort, Brad Bodnick, Mark

Hanna, Manny Riskin, Jean-Jacques Saurel, Aunt Emma, Nicky Koskoff, Chester Ming,

c. Characterization

1. Jordan Belfort

He is a hard worker man and also has a great communication skill. He is money

crazed which made him needs to stay close with drugs and prostitute. His lifestyle

affected him to become a not really family person.

 Picture 1 (5:20): Jordan is money crazed and bit greedy

Picture 2 (20:40): Jordan’s colleagues amazed with his marketing skill

Picture 3: (1:13:15) Jordan always put his company on first priority instead of his family. Jordan

and his wife used to fight everyday

2. Donnie Azoff

He has similar character as Jordan, but he is slightly dumb and hilarious. However, he

is a loyal friend.

Picture 1 (2:33:53) : Donnie was the only person that help Jordan, when Jordan

got legal issues

3. Max Belfort

A Temperamental man but also good father

Picture 1 (2:10:38): Max always give his son a best advice although he is bit harsh

4. Patrick Denham

Agent of FBI. Of course he is professional and honest person.

 Picture 1 (1:35:39) : Patrick refused Jordan’s attempt to bribe him

d. Plot

1. Exposition (01:17 – 21.50)

Jordan tell us his first job as a stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild. He also explain to us,

an environment of stockbroker office. To be relax and improve his performance,

Jordan needs many kind of drugs.

2. Rising Action (27:30 – 55:20)

After Jordan met Donnie, they started to build a broker company at rented garage.

Jordan recruited some boys from his hometown that experienced with sales. They are

Chaster, Robbie, Nick, Sea and Brad. Most of them only high school-graduated and

also most them are experienced to sell weed. Jordan taught them and in years Sratton

Oakmount became a large firm.

3. Climax (1:20:35 – 2:40:00)

After Jordan illegally makes $22 million on the Steve Madden IPO, the FBI further

intensifies their scrutiny of his dealings. Jordan, with the help of an unscrupulous

banker named Jean-Jacques Saurel opens a Swiss bank account in the name of
 Naomi’s Aunt Emma to hide his money from the law. After years Jean-Jeacques

Saurel arrested for his illegal business that unrelated with Jordan.

4. Falling Action (02:40:00 – 2:50:00)

By now, the evidence against Jordan is overwhelming, so he agrees to rat out his

colleagues in exchange for leniency. He got 3 years in prison. Naommi divorced

Jordan.

5. Resolution (02:50:00 – Ending)

Jordan still manages to receive a reduced sentence for his testimony even though he

breached the terms of his deal with the Feds. He serves three years in a minimum

security prison, and once he gets out, he earns a pretty good living off of sales

technique seminars, his autobiography, and a little film based on that life story.

Setting Time:

The wolf of the wall street story began at summer, 1987. Setting time including morning,

afternoon, evening, and midnight

Setting of Social Culture:

American culture. They live in a big city where everyone workaholic and money crazed. They

also use many kinds of drugs like Heroin, Cocaine, Qualuude, Weed and Xanax for habitual.

They also use prostitution services frequently

Setting Place:

Office, Jordan’s house, restaurant, Jordan’s yatch, airplane, park, and law court. It also take place

in different country including United states, Switzerland, United kingdom and Italy.
 Chapter III:

Conclusion

The conclusion of The wolf of the wall street by Martin Charles Scorsese is about Jordan

belfort’s biography. It tell us about Jordan’s life in part which started from her career being

stockbroker, how he built Stratton Oakmont, his marriage life and family, how he was life in

wealth, how Stratton Oakmont destroyed, until how Jordan’s life after released from prison.

Main character of this film is Jordan Belfort. Setting time of this film started from 1987.

It take many place, but most dominant is in New York, United states.