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wow that little clip!!! gorgeous, both of them, i just cant wait anymore, like i wanna see the movie NOW!

Thanks Cassandra for all the pics and Calibi for the clip ! 

 

GOSH THAT CLIP ! DAMN ! HE IS SOOOO HOT ! I JUST CAAAAN'T !  :drool:  :shock:  <3

wow that little clip!!! gorgeous, both of them, i just cant wait anymore, like i wanna see the movie NOW!

Calibi

Tks for sharing your thought on Wolf ; so jealous of you :)

Loved hearing that the viewing audience found it to be a highly entertaining film ; can't wait to see for myself !

Also , tks for new Wolf clip , I'll be looking forward to seeing if that scene plays out the same way it does in book :p

Tks , too, NY Post article about orgy scene .

Cassandra

Tks for all the Wolf stills :)

All I can say is THANK YOU THANK YOU ALL for the stills, clips etc.!

 

Him and margot...just.... :woot: Their chemistry is seriously tangible, I can't wait to see it on the screen :drool:

 

 

Leo on GMA this morning ; very short interview , but Leo looks good :p

http://gma.yahoo.com/video/movie-dicaprio-really-obsessed-making-124834282.html

OMG TOO SHORT. It looks like they cut alot from it, I wonder if there will be a full interview released on youtube or something? Anyways grey suit again :drool: :woot: 

The Boston Herald has chosen Wolf as their top film of 2013 ; love the comments about Leo's performance

1. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET – Perhaps this is Martin Scorsese’s crowning achievement, a three hour epic on the way we live today because although set in a previous century, the 1980s, nothing, obviously, has changed. As Jordan Belfort the real life hustling con man, Leonardo DiCaprio gives a performance for the ages, a tour de force that defines the term.

http://bostonherald.com/entertainment/movies/hollywood_mine/2013/12/ten_best_for_2013

Nice words once again, thanks Ox!

 

Paramount Pictures ?@ParamountPics 2h

More is never enough. RT if you're ready to see Leonardo DiCaprio & Jonah Hill in #TheWolfofWallStreet!

 

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Both the L.A. Times and NY Times give  "thumbs up" to  the Wolf of Wall Street and Leo's performance

 

 

Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-wolf-of-wall-street-review-leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-20131225,0,7779703.story#axzz2oQSJ2NlK

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/movies/dicaprio-stars-in-scorseses-the-wolf-of-wall-street.html?ref=arts&_r=0

Kat

Great poster of Leo & Jonah from Paramount , tks for tweet :)

I've read many, many raves of the film and Leo's performance and below is yet another one

From San Francisco Chronicle

'Wolf of Wall Street' review: Scorsese right on the money

Mick LaSalle

Though "Raging Bull" must still go down as Martin Scorsese's greatest achievement, "The Wolf of Wall Street" makes the race for No. 2 a lot more interesting. It is his first since "Goodfellas" to break through that mystical barrier that separates "Oh, yes, that was excellent" from "Wow, that was amazing." And it is the best and most enjoyable American film to be released this year.

It runs a full three hours but feels that long only in terms of its abundance. There's just so much here - so many characters, so many famous faces, so many turns of story, so many indelible set pieces - that thinking about it afterward is like contemplating some deranged tapestry.

Yet as an experience, as time spent in a theater seat, it is the fastest three hours imaginable. Supposedly, the original cut was six hours long. If all six were like this, that would have been fine.

To the extent that it's reminiscent of any of Scorsese's previous films, "The Wolf of Wall Street" is something like the crazy last third of "Goodfellas," in which Ray Liotta juggled a dinner party, a drug habit and an airport drop, while federal helicopters circled overhead.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" has a similar freneticism, a fluidity of camera movement and a dark comic sensibility that lets you know that, funny though it is, this can't end well.

Like so many of Scorsese's films, it tells the story of one man's career in crime. It follows Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) - Terence Winter's dazzling screenplay is based on Belfort's memoir - from his 1980s initiation into the cult of Wall Street through the rise and fall of his own brokerage firm, in which he perfected the art of bilking clients and laundering money.

He is a charming snake-oil salesman, in love with an idea of himself that isn't really true, and in this way, he shares a family resemblance with other roles played by Leonardo DiCaprio - Gatsby, J. Edgar Hoover, Frank in "Revolutionary Road," and Howard Hughes.

Handsome fraud

But Jordan Belfort is the ultimate, both in what it demands from DiCaprio and what it brings out of him. Jordan believes that he is glamorous, that his clients' money is better spent by him, because he at least knows what to do with it.

He spends it on drugs, prostitutes, a garish yacht and a helicopter that he flies while intoxicated. The orgy sequences aren't the usual forlorn movie orgies, but scenes from inside a mad party, and they had to be edited down to avoid an NC-17 rating. They couldn't have been edited much.

Playing a fraud, an emotional infant and a moral slob - who is also a very handsome and appealing guy - DiCaprio responds with a performance that matches the verbal pyrotechnics of Robert Preston with the physical comedy of Jerry Lewis.

It's a huge performance, an abandoned performance, one that requires that he push, sell and celebrate, in between panicking, raving and, in one notable case, foaming at the mouth from a drug overdose. DiCaprio's sheer energy is staggering, but so is his subtlety and his comic precision.

One of the great quiet scenes shows Jordan on his yacht, trying to charm an FBI agent (Kyle Chandler) whose dream in life is to put him behind bars. Watch DiCaprio's eyes as he slowly realizes that the conversation isn't really going his way.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" finds Scorsese at his most playful and inventive, with scenes in which we hear what the characters are thinking and others in which we see what a character thinks is happening, when something else is happening altogether.

The camera swoops down and pans over crowds, and the songs on the soundtrack always have some connection with the action. DiCaprio's voice-over narration, peppered throughout, is never an intrusion and is sometimes side-splitting.

Scorsese, at this point, can get just about anybody to take a small part in one of his movies, but he doesn't abuse that. Matthew McConaughey (still skinny from "Dallas Buyers Club") appears in only two scenes, but his role, as a loony broker who counsels the young Jordan to masturbate at least twice a day, is made to order.

Likewise, Jean Dujardin is ideal casting in the small role of a Swiss banker whose happy smile can't hide the larcenous soul. It's a running joke that he is able to speak and understand English only when it's convenient.

The cliche about tales such as "The Wolf of Wall Street" is that they tell a quintessentially American story, and sometimes cliches are true. But the allure of Jordan as a character is not that he represents something poisonous in the American soul but rather that he represents a poisonous byproduct of something otherwise glorious in the American soul - the drive for splendor, the belief in endless reinvention. Jordan has the same dream most Americans have, only he gets sick on it.

Finally, one more word about Scorsese. This is the first film of his 70s, and at least according to Orson Welles, the 70s and 20s are when an artist does his best work. Perhaps Scorsese is intent on proving Welles right. He could not have made a stronger start.

http://www.sfgate.com/

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