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Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.

In HD. This looks nuts, I'm in.

What a fantastic trailer! Scorsese has evolved many times throughout his career and now is officially the king of over-the-top. I mean that in the best way possible.

This reminds me of the tone he was going for with BRINGING OUT THE DEAD...but I suspect (and hope!) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET will be much better.

Roger Ryan wrote:This reminds me of the tone he was going for with BRINGING OUT THE DEAD...but I suspect (and hope!) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET will be much better.

Since Bringing Out the Dead is extremely good, that would be a real treat.

After four movies together that brought us the dour and serious DiCaprio, I'm glad to see Scorsese seems to be turning to the reckless wild man DiCaprio that always seemed to elicit more interesting performances.

Rodrigo Prieto shot this (the first Scorsese film not lensed by Robert Richardson or Michael Ballhaus since Kundun) and the visual look really pops.

Hadn't Scorsese said all of his films would be in 3-D after Hugo? I didn't see anything that said this would be in 3-D.

This looks fantastic, like the coked out last reel of Goodfellas stretched to feature length- and I'm a big fan of McConaughey as a hard hearted comedic presence, which is a note he seems to have been hitting repeatedly and well lately. I mean, I can't remember the last Scorsese movie I outright disliked, so I was excited for this regardless, but I'm excited to see him playing in a mode I don't think he's hit lately, and perhaps not at any length since After Hours.

Professor Wagstaff wrote:(the first Scorsese film not lensed by Robert Richardson or Michael Ballhaus since Kundun)

Well, only if you limit "film" to theatrically-released narrative feature films. He's worked with several different cinematographers on his documentaries and TV work.

Drucker wrote:Hadn't Scorsese said all of his films would be in 3-D after Hugo? I didn't see anything that said this would be in 3-D.

He said he would shoot only in digital from now on, with the possibility of using 3-D again in the future.

Apparently this was shot primarily on 35mm with some footage shot with the Arri Alexa and other digital cameras.

Fantastic trailer, bring it on.

Maybe McConaughey finally gets an Oscar nom for this? To play off Matrix, I can't think of the last Scorsese film i outright liked, but this looks like it has potential. At least it's scored to Kanye and not the Stones

domino harvey wrote:Maybe McConaughey finally gets an Oscar nom for this?

If I might be so obnoxious as to base an awards prediction on set photos, a Focus acquisition, and a December 6 release date, I'd say McConaughey's nom is coming for The Dallas Buyers Club. Still, having a recent body of work that includes this, Mud, and a handful of great performances last year will only help his cause.

Here are all the awesome bits of the trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street distilled into animated gif form.

good golly this looks fantastic. amazing energy that the trailer conveys, everyone looks like they're having a ball, conceptually Scorsese uses Wall Street sharks as his neo-Goodfellas, which is really more of a resonant or at least currently relevant idea, anyways. and the main character feels like a neat, modern summation of DiCaprio's role choices these days. i'm all in.

This looks exactly like the breath of fresh air that the Scorsese-DiCaprio pairing needs.

I like the neo-Goodfellas observation. The trailer somehow manages to project vintage Scorsese, while also seeming very much unique and contemporary (despite being set in the 90s). A new Scorsese film is always cause for celebration, but the trailer has made me far more excited than I expected to be.

DiCaprio monologing to the audience, I'm in! This looks like it has the potential to be something amazing. The Kanye West song in the trailer really, really bothered me but as long as Scorsese doesn't put that kind of music in the movie I'll be okay (I'm looking at you Baz Luhrmann, with your terrible use of Jay Z songs)

TheDudeAbides wrote:The Kanye West song in the trailer really, really bothered me but as long as Scorsese doesn't put that kind of music in the movie I'll be okay (I'm looking at you Baz Luhrmann, with your terrible use of Jay Z songs)

I have no idea what you're getting at here by comparing the two movies, unless you're just expressing a general disdain for hip-hop.

Isn't it kind of obvious that it's a disdain for ostentatiously anachronistic musical choices to score a film, rather than any particular genre the music happens to be?

What's anachronistic about the use of hip hop in Scorsese's trailer, though?

I don't find it anachronistic at all since it's likely all what the characters in the film listen to. And since Howard Shore is credited as doing the score, I won't have to put up with anachronistic music to my own taste to something like Spring Breakers.

oh yeah wrote:What's anachronistic about the use of hip hop in Scorsese's trailer, though?

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I don't find it anachronistic at all since it's likely all what the characters in the film listen to. And since Howard Shore is credited as doing the score, I won't have to put up with anachronistic music to my own taste to something like Spring Breakers.

Anachronistic means "not of the time period," so a cut off of Kanye West's new album is certainly anachronistic to a film that takes place fifteen years ago. The characters can't listen to music from the future.

That being said, I think the trailer works great cut to that track, and I don't think the actual film is going to be set to 21st century hip-hop, so I'm not particularly concerned.

I didn't realize the film was based on a true story that happened fifteen years ago, my bad.

Um, since when does non-diegetic music (particularly in a TRAILER) need to be time period specific? Give me a break with "anachronistic".

BTW if anyone wants a good laugh, do a youtube search on the real Jordan Belfort. He's a motivational speaker now for business people.

Does no one remember how every trailer in the '90s used music from Beetlejuice?