Few weeks ago I went to the movies and saw Wolf of the Wall Street, starred by Leonardo di Caprio (unfortunately with subtitles). The movie tells the unbelievable and previously untold story of the Jordan Belfort, who was the insolent stock broker who founded The Stratton Oakmont company and shocked the Wall street by earning enormous amounts of money. After seeing the movie I immediately rushed to book store and bought the original Wolf of the Wall Street book by Jordan Belfort. After seeing the movie I thought that his story was absolutely crazy and the movie just exaggerated his life in order to get more interesting plot. But after reading the book, I realised that the movie wasn't exaggerating at all.
Jordan Belfort really lived the life of a rock star. His life was filled with drugs, women and most importantly, money. He could buy almost anything he wanted. He also founded the Stratton Oakmont, company that shortly became the most notorious company in the Wall street. Every young stock broker wanted to work there and the atmosphere of the company was absolutely unspeakable. There was only one, huge room filled with tables and phones and day after day young brokers shouted and sweated to there phones and make millions of dollars.
Jordan Belfort really lived the life of a rock star. His life was filled with drugs, women and most importantly, money. He could buy almost anything he wanted. He also founded the Stratton Oakmont, company that shortly became the most notorious company in the Wall street. Every young stock broker wanted to work there and the atmosphere of the company was absolutely unspeakable. There was only one, huge room filled with tables and phones and day after day young brokers shouted and sweated to there phones and make millions of dollars.
"Mad Max went on and on in typical Mad max fashion, but I tuned out. In fact, I found myself mesmerised by this wonderful ability he had to tie so many curses together with such little forethought and still make the sentence so very poetic. It was truly beautiful the way he cursed-like Shakespeare with an attitude! And at Stratton Oakmont, where cursing was considered a high art form, to say that someone knew how to tie their curses together was a compliment of the highest order."
The movie follows quite loyally the book, but there has been some changes in the plot order. The movie starts typically from the beginning of Belforts life and end in his arrest. But the book instead starts from the middle and consists some flashbacks to Belforts past as a young stockbroker. The book as it self is obviously pretty populistic and not "high literature" but it looks like it's writer: Rough and exciting. The language of the book is fairly easy to understand, in my opinion, but here is some financial vocabulary that was new to me. The language of the book is also very fun and compelling and after reading the first pages, you don't want to stop anymore.
I have always been interested in biographies, especially by the notorious Rock groups like Guns'n Roses or Motley Crew. I think that is the reason why I got so hooked up to the Wolf of the Wall Street. The life of the Jordan belfry has been like some weird dream loaded with money and drugs. And the most exciting part of it is that it's a true.
I have always been interested in biographies, especially by the notorious Rock groups like Guns'n Roses or Motley Crew. I think that is the reason why I got so hooked up to the Wolf of the Wall Street. The life of the Jordan belfry has been like some weird dream loaded with money and drugs. And the most exciting part of it is that it's a true.
Time used in reading: 20 hours
Time used in writing: 1 hour
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