Martin Scorsese has continued to work with the same actors over the course of his career. Robert De Niro has remained one of his most frequent collaborators for decades, but Leonardo DiCaprio has also come to occupy a similar position for the legendary filmmaker. After first working together on Gangs of New York in 2002, Scorsese and DiCaprio would go on to make a number of acclaimed films together.

DiCaprio and Scorsese worked together on The Aviator (2004) before re-teaming for The Departed (2006), which remains Scorsese’s only Best Picture-winning film. They also worked together on Shutter Island in 2010 and 2023’s critically-acclaimed Killers of the Flower Moon. Together, Scorsese and DiCpario have explored a variety of genres together, and the pair turned their attention to the world of Wall Street banking in a darkly comedic 2013 docudrama.

The Wolf Of Wall Street Earns A High Accuracy Rating

But The Expert Doesn’t Love The Film

Former Wall Street trader Jared Dillian awards The Wolf of Wall Street a respectable grade for realism even though the movie features elements he doesn’t like. Hitting theaters three years after Shutter Island, the Scorsese and DiCaprio collaboration chronicles the true story of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who rises to great heights on Wall Street before his criminal antics get him in trouble with the law. The Wolf of Wall Street was a big hit, earning positive reviews and becoming a box office success, with audiences and critics alike enjoying DiCaprio’s performance and the movie’s wild party scenes.

In a recent video for Insider, Dillian takes a look at several party scenes from The Wolf of Wall Street, awarding them a fairly high score for their accuracy. The former trader uses the movie to explain the real-life partying situation on Wall Street, revealing that big parties were drastically toned down following the financial crisis in 2008. Since The Wolf of Wall Street takes place in the ’80s and ’90s, however, it’s not entirely inaccurate. Check out Dillian’s analysis below:

There’s a lot of people who watch The Wolf of Wall Street and they think that’s what Wall Street is when it’s really the wolf of strip malls in Long Island. Jordan Belford had a firm called Straton Oakmont which was a penny stockbrokerage. There was fraud and there was illegal sales tactics and he did go to jail. It is not Wall Street. It is not insтιтutional finance.

The funny is that Christmas parties for the major Wall Street firms were common up until the financial crisis. When I was at Lehman, we had a Christmas party at the Hilton on 6th Avenue. There were multiple DJs, multiple dance floors, and then after the financial crisis, the Christmas parties went away kind of for financial reasons but also for optical reasons. It was considered to be a little untoward for a Wall Street bank to be having a big, ostentatious Christmas party.

But you didn’t have women getting their heads shaved. You didn’t have a marching band. You didn’t have strippers. That didn’t happen.

I actually think for a penny stockbrokerage in the 1980s, I think it gets a high rating for realism. I would say about a seven and a half [out of 10]. Doesn’t mean that I like it. I don’t like it. But for what it is, I think it’s somewhat realistic.

What The Wolf Of Wall Street’s Accuracy Means For The Movie

The Martin Scorsese Movie’s Critical & Commercial Success Explained

The Wolf of Wall Street‘s high accuracy score accompanies some strong performance in other areas as well. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film enjoys a critics’ score of 79% and an audience score of 83%. Made on an estimated budget of $100 million, The Wolf of Wall Street grossed $407 million worldwide, making it a box office hit.

Though naming the 2013 movie the best Scorsese and DiCaprio collaboration will, of course, be a matter of personal preference, there’s no denying it was a success. Audiences had to wait 10 years for another collaboration between the two after The Wolf of Wall Street, but they shouldn’t have to wait another ten years after Killers of the Flower Moon, with the pair now set to work together once again on an adaptation of The Devil in the White City.

Source: Insider