The Wolf of Wall Street

The reason I found it so preposterous is because I understood it so completely

 

I feel the same way about Kevin Smith that I do about Tarantino... Every character blasts out these ridiculous soliloquies every 5 minutes and half the audience shouts "GENIUS!" while the other half rolls their eyes at how precious it all is

 

Nah, you just Don't GET It...

 

It's Dialogue for the SAKE of it, NATHAN More...The "Pot Belly" Crap Bruce Willis' Girlfriend was Talking about in "Pulp Fiction" was a COMPLETE Waste of Time...If Christopher Walken's "Watch" Scene was 4 Minutes Loooooooooong, 3 1/2 of those Minutes were UNfuckingNECESSARY...Ditto for the Majority of Ving Rhames' Bar Scene Lines to Bruce Willis...REED Sees NATHAN "Brilliant" or "Genius" about Adding MEANINGLESS Verbiage to a Scene that's ALREADY Heavy in Dialogue...

 

Tarantino & Kevin Smith should write a screenplay together and give it to Woody Allen to direct. It can be titled 'Crucial Conversations' or in the age of remakes 'My Dinner with Andre' where two characters ramble for two hours.

 

People sleep a third of the time in real life too.

 

most real life conversations aren't uninterrupted monologues

 

agree, but I liked the Walken scene simply because Christopher Walken never fails to entertain me

 

Tarantino is the Muhammad Ali of filmmaking. Breaks every rule of the book (too long dialogues, mixing genres for apparently no reason, flirts with bad taste continuously, doesn't use clear protagonists and antagonists in his films etc) yet he makes it work splendidly

 

agREED...

Real Life Conversations Consist of SMALL TALK..."How are You", "How's the Wife", "How's the Kid", "Shitty Weather Today, Huh"...

Not Sure what Anthony's Intent was, Comparing Tarantino's Movie Dialogue to Real Life Convo's, but they're NATHAN Alike...

REED's a Fairly Astute Movie Watcher & has Learned THE Most Seemingly Meaningless Line, Action or Gesture Can Be Pertinent to the Plot or Finale of a Movie...After the Movie, REED Typically Rehashes the Flick in his Head, Piecing Together what he Retained, like a Puzzle...

w/Tarantino, the Pieces NEVER Fit, Particularly the Dialogue & the LENGTH of it, Specifically...Yet this Very Thing IS his "Brilliance", According to Anthony???:scratcher:...

"Just Because You Don't Understand 'em, Don't Mean that he BRIGHT. Just Means You Don't Understand All the Bullshit that he WRITES." - Jay-Z



REED:hammert:

 

i don't remember there being as much of that aimless chat in Inglorious Bastards or Django. Am I right in that?

 

Yes. The tone of the dialogue was still Tarantino-esque, but there were no "extra" scenes or streched ones in them

 

Now this I can agree with.

No you're wrong, of course there was the long chat in those filmes, although I wouldn't call it aimless. If it's not in the film then it's not a Tarantino. Let me refresh your memory with some of the ones I can remember.

Inglorious Bastards - The opening scene when he visits the farmer was a long convo. The scene where the Jew Killer sits with the theater girl and gives her the dessert. The Bar scene right before the shoot out. I'm sure there were more but I can't recall them all.

Django Unchained - I've only seen this one like once even though I loved it. Only scene I really remember a long convo was near the end when DiCrapio was explaining the black man's skull and demanding full payment for the slave girl.

If you don't remember any convo's being long it's probably because they were so good you just enjoyed them too much. Tararntino can do that to you. In fact the convos in Death Proof is the main reason I love that film so much. "Only I'm afraid..I'm going to have to file you...under chicken-shit." Fucking classic.

 

That's because you have never met someone like my wife!:tick:

 

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Watched this movie today - pisses all over anything released this year or last.
Should get Best Picture / Best Actor / Best Screenplay...

 

Saw it the other night. Excellent film. Although it was also very long, it kept my attention better than one of its direct "competitors" in American Hustle. I liked AH, don't get me wrong but Wolf of Wall Street as a better movie imo.

Both Dicaprio and Hill were excellent.

One of my favorite scenes is when Leo drives home the Lambo completely fucked out of his mind and gets there without a scratch. :l3:

 

Caligula was a consultant for that scene

 

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Agreed on all points.
The driving-Countach-on-Quaaludes scene - I had tears running down my face.
Ditto, the (possibly) ad-libbed 'Dwarf-Tossing' scene in the board-room...

 

Were any black people in this movie?

 

Leo's maid.

 

And his smooth talking street wise neighbor Maxwell "Velvet" Jackson.

 

:l2:

 

Whiskey, do you and your family pronounce the movie title like "DER VOALFE OF VALL SCHTREET"?