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FILM 1109: THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

TRIVIA: Real-life Jordan Belfort appears in a brief role in the film's final scene, introducing his cinema stand-in Leonardo DiCaprio. As accurately portrayed, Belfort is now a motivational speaker who previously served 22 months in federal prison for stock fraud.

The chest beating and humming performed by Matthew McConaughey is actually a warming up ritual that he performs before acting. When Leonardo DiCaprio saw it he encouraged him to include it in their scene.

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 Hill's face swelling in real time.

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 DiCaprio's 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.

Jonah Hill wore a prosthetic penis when Donnie sees Naomi while masturbating at the party. The surprised reactions from the actors and extras were genuine.

Margot Robbie claimed that her sex scene with Leonardo DiCaprio on a bed full of cash was extremely uncomfortable, as the fake paper bills had sharp edges resulting in multiple paper cuts to her back.

Martin Scorsese needed a quick pick up shot of the "fasten your seat belt" blinking sign for the airplane scene but didn't 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. Let's just use that." Thus, the film became Scorsese's first movie to incorporate footage taken from an iPhone.

Jonah Hill had an noticeable lisp when he first put the teeth in to play Donnie, to get rid of this he spent over two hours on the phone calling up random businesses and talking with them.

Leonardo DiCaprio says that he and Martin Scorsese were able to 'push the envelope' with their depiction of over-the-top sexual acts and scenes in "Wolf" and 'make the movie they wanted to' primarily because the production was financed independently,and not by any major studio. Scorsese did however edit some sexual content and nudity to avoid an NC-17 rating at the request of the MPAA.

This cast assembled by director Martin Scorsese's film includes three other prominent directors in acting roles: Rob Reiner, Spike Jonze, and Jon Favreau.

Chris Evans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt auditioned for a role.

A young Steve Buscemi briefly appears on screen in a 1987 episode of The Equalizer (1985) that Max Belfort (Rob Reiner) is watching on TV at home.

Jonah Hill wanted to eat a real goldfish, because he wanted everything to be real, everyone was going so hard on this movie, he didn't want to be the person who wasn't.they wouldn't let him eat a real goldfish so they had a real goldfish and they had three goldfish handlers. Three real human goldfish wranglers. And he could keep it in his mouth for three seconds at a time and then they had to put it back in water.

CAMEO: Martin Scorsese:  as the voice of John, the first client, that Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) sells Arotyne IND penny stocks.