This was not what I was expecting. At all. When you hear words like “Wall Street… Martin Scorsese… Leonardo DiCaprio… Kyle Chandler,” aren’t you expecting a straight-up drama? But the trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street is something altogether different. It seems crazy and funny and Leo in particular looks like he’s giving everything to this lead role. Leo and Marty are so tight – I think Scorsese really does get the best performances out of Leo, and Leo just seems to adore his favorite director. It’s nice. Here’s the trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street:

Supporting Leo, we’ve got Jonah Hill (in his first dramatic turn since his Oscar-nominated performance in Moneyball), Matthew McConaughey, Jean Dujardin (he plays a Swiss banker or something, and I didn’t see him in the trailer), Kyle Chandler, and the blonde woman is Margot Robbie. She’s an interesting choice for this film, right? There were lots of rumors about Margot and Leo during filming – they were either hooking up or Leo accepted Margot into his makeshift Rat Pack and she was “one of the boys”.

The film is based on Jordan Belfort’s book of the same name, an autobiography of his days as a scamming, scheming stockbroker in the 1990s. Spoiler: He eventually went to jail. You know what this trailer reminds me of? Goodfellas. This is like Goodfellas for Wall Street. It also gave me strong “last days of Enron” vibes.

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