Leonardo DiCaprio on ?The Wolf of Wall Street? Controversy

Leonardo DiCaprio, the star of Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ is defending the movie which has proven controversial as some feel that it glorifies and glamorizes the real-life story of ex-stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who served prison time for securities fraud. Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Jordan Belfort in the movie which is based on his memoir of the same title. The three-hour long movie is filled with scene after scene of the lavish and depraved lifestyle — excessive illicit drug use, sex orgies on private planes, etc. — depicted in the book. While some critics herald the movie as a masterpiece others have denounced it for these very excesses. Victims of Jordan Belfort’s penny stock swindles, some of whom lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, those same dollars that fueled his day-to-day decadence, have also spoken out in various media reports. Also Christina McDowell, daughter of Tom Prousalis who was among Belfort’s colleagues who were convicted of securities fraud crimes wrote a scathing denouncement, ‘An Open Letter to the Makers of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the Wolf Himself’ which was published in LA Weekly. Martin Scorsese was infamously confronted by an Academy member at the official Academy screening [...]

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