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fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
Dobbins texted Fennessey 48 minutes into the rewatch asking if this is the greatest movie ever made, even though it sits at only No. 11 on the list.
“about 48 minutes into it. I texted you, is this the greatest movie ever made?”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:01:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (reappraisal):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Mr. Scorsese (Apple documentary, dir. Rebecca Miller).
Watching the documentary colors a host's regret about Wolf's placement at 11.
“That's going to color this conversation and maybe some of my regret around its placement at number 11.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
craft (style culmination):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Martin Scorsese.
Wolf is the apotheosis of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese developed in the 21st century.
“it's like the final boss of a thing he developed in the 21st century as a director.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
Fennessey says the film is the 'final boss' of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese built in the 21st century.
“it's like the final boss of a thing he developed in the 21st century as a director.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
what-if (alternate Scorsese pick):
Silence → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Silence was the rival pick as a culmination of Scorsese's interests.
“There is a real heads case for silence. There's a real... as another as another culmination of what he is interested in.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:04:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (durational Scorsese era):
Silence → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Shutter Island, Hugo, Wolf, Silence, The Irishman and Killers are all durational films about his obsessions.
“Shutter Island, Hugo, the Wolf of Wall Street, silence the Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, all of which are these kind of durational films.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (financing / star power):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Leonardo DiCaprio.
Leo raised the money and attached Scorsese and the cast, which let an extreme film get made without a studio.
“the idea that it was DiCaprio, who went out and raised the funds to get this movie made”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:11:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
Leo raised $100 million himself and the film became Scorsese's biggest hit, $400 million worldwide, with some dubious money in the financing that echoes the story.
“he raised $100 million. Got Scorsese attached, attached this incredible cast.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:11:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
The financing itself had misdeeds that mirror the movie's story; summed up as no way to do anything at scale in America cleanly.
“There's no way to do it cleanly.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:12:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
Fennessey claims the film is roughly 80 percent montage, with moments of Leo speaking straight to camera standing out.
“it is like roughly 80% montage.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:12:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (self-reference: intentional ugliness):
The Wolf of Wall Street → The Wolf of Wall Street.
The film builds to its darkest scene with Margot Robbie to show Belfort is not to be celebrated.
“You're not supposed to celebrate him.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:14:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (needle drops):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Martin Scorsese.
More than 30 needle drops make this the pinnacle of Scorsese's montage style.
“there are more than 30 needle drops in the movie. They are, uh, I would argue the pinnacle of him doing that.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:14:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (music):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Robbie Robertson.
Scorsese and Robertson were obsessed with the hungry, lascivious blues records used in the soundtrack.
“a kind of like, um, Hungry, lascivious quality to some of those blues records that Scorsese and Robbie Robertson were obsessed with”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:15:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
Slowed-down blues over the bacchanalia, where lights change and sound drops out until the camera finds Belfort gleeful and regretful, reads as him descending into hell.
“you can almost feel Jordan like descending into hell or like, or he's being portrayed as Satan.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:15:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (literary echo):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Paradise Lost (Milton).
Belfort descending into hell as the lights change reads as Paradise Lost.
“Yeah, that's the Paradise Lost, you know, yeah.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (painting reference):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Francis Bacon.
Bacchanal tableaux reference the Last Supper and Francis Bacon.
“Sometimes it's the last supper. Sometimes it's Francis Bacon and like the disgusting nature of the human soul.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (shared star / timing):
The Wolf of Wall Street → One Battle After Another.
Wolf is a perfectly timed pick going into One Battle After Another because of the Leo of it all.
“we've been talking a lot about what perfect timing this is going into one battle after another. And obviously a lot of that is to do with the Leo of it all.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (influence / humor):
The Wolf of Wall Street → One Battle After Another.
Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA.
“Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (period reference):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (TV).
The film uses Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Robin Leach to place its 80s-excess world.
“And the use of lifestyles of the rich and famous? and Robin Leach in this movie.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:17:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (cultural prophecy):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Donald Trump.
The film presages Trump's locker-room-talk persona and shows Trump Tower and an infomercial pitch to America.
“This movie presages the locker room talk, Donald Trump stand-up by just a couple of years, you know?”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:18:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
A host recognizes the Nassau County cop car and strip mall from a Long Island childhood.
“it's a Nassau County, uh, cop car. And I'm like, I grew up seeing that cop all the time.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:18:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (shared theme):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Taxi Driver.
All Scorsese movies are about guys chasing something they think will ease unresolved pain.
“all the Scorsese movies are all about these unresolved pains, you know, the desire to be more famous, the desire to be more successful”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (unexplained protagonist):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Raging Bull (Jake LaMotta).
Scorsese's leads are products of their environment with no origin-story trauma offered as excuse.
“Jake Lamata or Rupert Pupkin or um, the underground man and taxi driver, like, They just are as they are.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:21:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (unexplained protagonist):
The Wolf of Wall Street → The King of Comedy (Rupert Pupkin).
Same Scorsese pattern: the character is not explained away by backstory.
“Jake Lamata or Rupert Pupkin or um, the underground man and taxi driver, like, They just are as they are.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:21:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (unexplained protagonist):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Taxi Driver.
The underground man of Taxi Driver is cited as another Scorsese lead who simply is as he is.
“Jake Lamata or Rupert Pupkin or um, the underground man and taxi driver, like, They just are as they are.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:21:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (charismatic criminal):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Goodfellas.
Both lead characters are exciting and funny to watch without being excused.
“Henry Hill is very attractive and exciting to watch in Goodfellas.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:22:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
A host points out the film plays into the Gen Z and young millennial audience, a frat-dude dorm-poster movie that many miss the point of.
“this is a prime frat dude, dorm poster movie.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:24:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (physical comedy):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Buster Keaton.
The quaalude sequence is called Buster Keaton-esque.
“That whole sequence is a wild, Buster Keaton-esque, misremembered genius moment.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:24:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (career origin):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Gangs of New York.
Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles.
“if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (dismissive comparison):
The Revenant → The Wolf of Wall Street.
The Revenant won the Oscar but is merely physical; Wolf demands as much and more.
“Which is a great physical performance. Who cares? So is this.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:28:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
The quaalude sequence is hailed as Buster Keaton-esque; one host wants it at the top of Leo's career reel.
“Quaaludes will and should also be at the time. at the top of my reel.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:29:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (performance register):
The Wolf of Wall Street → One Battle After Another.
Leo is loose and funny in both, and in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
“He's very loose in one battle after another. He's very loose in once upon a time in Hollywood, and he's very loose in this movie.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:30:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (chronology):
The Revenant → The Wolf of Wall Street.
The Revenant came right after Wolf, which is why one host left Wolf off a list of Leo's comic-turn films.
“I didn't include this movie when I was thinking about this because the revenant came right after it.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:30:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career phase):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Wolf sits in DiCaprio's run of comic-dramatic roles alongside Once Upon a Time, Don't Look Up, Killers of the Flower Moon and One Battle.
“this movie is in the same league with, once upon a time in Hollywood, don't look up, Killers of the Flower Moon, or one bad after another, where he's getting a lot of laughs in the movie.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:30:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career contrast):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Revolutionary Road.
Before this comic pivot Leo was too self-serious in heavy films like Body of Lies and Revolutionary Road.
“No, he was too self serious. A body of lies and revolutionary roads.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:30:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (narrator structure):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Goodfellas.
Belfort, like Henry Hill, is the narrator and our way into the world while we watch him get lost in it.
“Well, like like Henry Hill, he is also, the movie is about him, but he is our way into the movie.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:31:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
On the yacht, a host found themselves rooting for Leo against the FBI agent; the bribery story ends with the mom dying in surgery.
“by the end of the scene, I was rooting for... for Leo.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:32:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (scene praise):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Kyle Chandler.
The yacht scene and Chandler's closing subway moment add nuance about the FBI.
“we do cut to Kyle Chandler, and he sees the headline about Belfort after he's been arrested and sentenced to prison time”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:33:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Wolf of Wall Street → The Lemonheads.
The Lemonheads' 'Mrs. Robinson' is the pitch-perfect, jarring needle drop for the Stratton Oakmont raid.
“the needle drop is uh, the lemon heads, Mrs. Robinson”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:34:52 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Wolf of Wall Street:
The Lemonheads' Mrs. Robinson plays under the Stratton Oakmont raid, a pitch-perfect jarring needle drop, with a plastics-for-everyone gag.
“the needle drop is uh, the lemon heads, Mrs. Robinson”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:34:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (performance ranking):
Catch Me If You Can → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Catch Me If You Can is offered as runner-up to Wolf for best Leo performance of the century.
“I wanted to come back to it as like, to me, this is maybe the runner-up to Wolf of Wall Street.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:36:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast: explained vs unexplained):
Catch Me If You Can → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Catch Me has the daddy-issues backstory that Wolf pointedly omits.
“It does have some of the trappings of explaining why someone is the way that they are that we're talking about that you don't necessarily have to do.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:36:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (real figure / cultural memory):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Steve Madden.
Steve Madden's pump-and-dump appears in Wolf, and the host remembers 90s Madden loafers.
“Steve Madden being a crucial figure of this movie is just very important.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:38:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
what-if (alternate pick):
The Irishman → The Wolf of Wall Street.
The Irishman would have been worthy but is more divisive.
“I think the Irishman is also would have been worthy of exploration.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:41:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (genre lineage):
Industry → The Wolf of Wall Street.
The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories.
“Boiler room, margin call and industry.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (genre lineage):
Boiler Room → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Boiler Room, Margin Call and Industry are finance-bro stories that Wolf tops as the mothership.
“if you like these movies about how all the finance bros aren't living the good life, but also maybe not, you know, then this is the ultimate.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (genre lineage):
Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of.
“This is, you know, the mothership.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage / scale):
Wall Street → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf.
“That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (scene parallel):
The Wolf of Wall Street → The Big Short.
Margot Robbie in the bathtub explaining finance to camera mirrors The Big Short's device.
“Margot Robbie in a bathtub and direct to camera speaking about, um, financial things, but and like simplifying them.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:43:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (twin film):
The Big Short → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Both respond to the financial crash era, and both use direct address and a bathtub explanation.
“They're they're really twin in a lot of ways.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:43:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (accomplishes more):
The Big Short → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Wolf accomplishes much of what The Big Short is trying to say, though Big Short is more specific.
“there is a lot that the Wolf of Wall Street accomplishes. that obviate some of the big short as well.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:44:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (anticipation):
The Wolf of Wall Street → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The anticipation for One Battle matches the last time a host felt this way, at Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
“The last time this happened was once upon a time in Hollywood.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:44:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career thread):
Margot Robbie → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Wolf of Wall Street is cited as Robbie's introduction as a sex symbol.
“That is her introduction.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:22:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (character echo):
Killers of the Flower Moon → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it.
“I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit.”
The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (filmmaker in dialogue):
Killers of the Flower Moon → The Wolf of Wall Street.
The film is in dialogue with what its artists did before (Goodfellas, Wolf, every De Niro character).
“this movie is in dialogue with what all of its artists and filmmakers have done before.”
The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (late-period arc):
Killers of the Flower Moon → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Wolf's brazenness is one stage of Scorsese's late evolution before Silence, Irishman, Killers.
“the fun, the brazenness, the, the energy of Wolf of Wall Street, the kind of solemnity, the probing nature, the sort of like punishing aspect of silence.”
The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:27:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
people (people):
Thomas Middleditch → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Middleditch (transcribed Middleish) is remembered in The Wolf of Wall Street as the one who did not eat the fish; Jonah Hill did.
“Remember when Thomas Middleish was in Wolf of Wall Street?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:39:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Blue Steel → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him.
“He's like a wolf of Wall Street type.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Working Girl → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Wall Street/Wolf of Wall Street was done by the show and is a very different movie.
“It's a very different movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:43:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Pulp Fiction → The Wolf of Wall Street.
As Scorsese's party sequence is hell to him, the basement is a powerful Black man's idea of hell, and the movie keeps a surreal feeling.
“To me, this is almost like, not just Bruce Willis, but like a black man, like a powerful black man's idea of hell is being locked in a basement and raped by hillbillies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:30 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The Wolf of Wall Street → The Big Chill.
Quaaludes apex mountain belongs to Wolf of Wall Street, not The Big Chill.
“No, Ludes is Wolf of Wall Street.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
This Is the End → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Apex Mountain check: Jonah Hill, Wolf and This Is the End the same year, probably worth Moneyball.
“I mean, this is Wolf and this is the end, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:59:15 · Chris Ryan (0.35 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people.
“Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most”
The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Russillo notes the Irons/Spacey penthouse shot resembles the DiCaprio/McConaughey scene, both explaining finance without talking down.
“the shot is similar when it's the 1st time with DiCaprio and McConaughey”
The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:24:40 · Ryen Russillo (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Boiler Room → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story.
“Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story”
The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Same stretch: Wolf is about criminals who went to jail; Margin Call has no coke, assault or prosecutable crime.
“Jordan went to jail.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:26:45 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Margin Call → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success.
“Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them) -
craft (directorial style):
The Color of Money → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Same Scorsese fast-cutting montage-with-music technique appears in both.
“We also talked about it years ago and we did Wolf of Wall Street.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
verdict (favorite performances):
Leonardo DiCaprio → The Wolf of Wall Street.
This, Wolf and Django are Ryan's three favorite Leo performances, not The Revenant.
“I would say this Wolf and Django are my 3 favorite Leo performances.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:09:01 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)