It also requires a stomach for a certain word referring to carnal knowledge. To enjoy it requires a certain adolescent attitude,
Got to have a reason for the chicks to buy tickets. There would have to be at least one scene where Jack kisses his wife Eve. I suppose certain aspects of his life would have to be embellished for a movie. As far as I know, there was no chase scene where Bogle escaped with his life after being chased by Wall Street villains. Of course, Bogle got the girl early in life and raised a family. His outspoken opinions about Wall Street. Criticism he faced starting "Bogle's Folly" or the S&P 500 Index fund. If the story of Bogle's heart donor was known, that would be interesting.īogle getting fired at Wellington Management and turning lemons into lemonade by founding Vanguard. His heart transplant and the new lease on life it gave him.Ī scene with someone applying the life saving defibrillator would probably bring some tears. His lifelong battle with heart disease and having to carry a defibrillator with him. There are aspects of Bogle's life that would be interesting. I think I actually fell asleep while watching it at home. For some reason I didn’t find them believable and certain scenes just drug on god awfully long, such as his intoxicated driving scene. These movies have a pulp ficion esqe humor and typically colorful but believable characters. There’s been some great Scorcese movies (good fellas and casino) but I didn’t find wows nearly as good.
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Do you seriously think a movie about Bogle would pack the theaters? Index funds are boring. I choose not to spend my time or energy reading about or watching movies glorifying people like this, but to each his/her own. Attorney's Office, they said: "No comment." Guerrero wanted to know how that was possible, but when she tried to get answers from the U.S. tour that I announced and I'm giving 100 percent of the profits to pay back the victims," he told Inside Edition's Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero at the time.īut, in a new investigation airing Wednesday, Inside Edition found that he still owes around $100 million and no movie residual money was ever handed over to the victims, according to the court.Īlso, despite his debt to his victims, he's also apparently still living a life of luxury. ' Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort still living life of luxury while owing his victims millions. His people always began by putting them into nice, ordinary, well-known stocks like GE, and kept doing it for long enough to build trust, before telling them about something really special they wanted to recommend.
Scariest thing is the way he hooked his clients. To enjoy it requires a certain adolescent attitude, and it helps if you have a streak of male chauvinist pig. The cops inform him that he actually has had seven separate collisions, one of which broke somebody's arm, all of which he had been unaware of or didn't remember.īecause the narrative presence of Belfort is of a raconteur telling a story he thinks is funny, I went along with it and it seemed funny. He looks at his car which has been bashed into an unrecognizable lump. Then the scene shifts and it is the next day, and there are policemen at his door. The movie first shows us what we later realize is his drug-addled point of view: he just barely gets home OK without actually hitting anything. Literally unable to walk, he rolled down the steps of where he was, crawled into his car, and drove home. Then his cell phone rang and for some urgent reason which I forget, it was absolutely essential for him to get home. Being outdated, their action was unpredictable and he and his friend kept taking them and waiting for the effect to set in. At the time when it occurred, the manufacture of Quaaludes had been discontinued in the United States, but aficionados tried to get their hands on old, long-expired bottles of it.
One of the hate-myself-for-thinking-it-is-funny scenes in the movie, and I think it will give you a good idea what the movie is like, is the scene where Belfort drives his expensive sports car home while being nearly comatose on Quaaludes. I phrase it that way because I see no particular reason to believe anything he says. I skimmed the book to find out which things were actually described by Belfort as having really happened. My wife was seriously annoyed that I thought the movie was funny.