We know for a fact that the film does not mirror reality, The Benihana scene! Incredible.īut, in my own opinion the film said that to me. I found the last shot terrifically emotional as well. He is the one that made me be stupid and give him Is not in the cards for Jordan? Certainly not. what choice does he have? We have a choice! He demands that the audience sell him his pen, because.
Just to look at him, he looks like a beaten man, who does nothing because he wants to. It looks like he was partying the night before! Scorsese himself suggested in an interview that he had his suspicions about his sobriety (totally unprompted on his part). They give him these massive black back bags under his eyes. If memory serves his shirt is untucked, opened at the collar, he steps off the stage and into the audience, just like we saw him do many times before, but you can see that there is no feeling in it. If you look at his appearance and physical presence at the finish, Jordan really is not dissimilar, but there is another layer. Henry Hill has a laugh at the audience, he ruminates but he also dares us to do better, or be happier. I have since revised my opinion just a touch concerning the ending of Wolf though. I think this hell of the ordinary is very much one of the notes that makes up the (in its totality) untranslatable music of suggestion and feeling that make up the conclusions. When Jordan extends the pen, the black bars dissolve as does the filter.Thus it can be seen that Scorsese is trying to make an appeal beyond the medium that he is using. As for Wolf, we have the scene begin with a video filter over everything, and the apect ratio altered. In Goodfellas we have that brazenly abstract intercut of Pesci on a old hollywood set, lowering a gun right into the camera and firing. In both endings Scorsese acknowledge the medium. Yes, I agree implicitly with your reading of the ending. That last bit might just be me blathering though. His two weapons! Its up to us to let him have them though. Sexual vitality, which he has in the mind of the audience before punching out his wife). The pen is communication (the phone) and the pen is phallic (his Sex with them during the cold calling, you could see the pen scene at the end as a literal continuation because When Jordan flips off the people on the phone and mock has But you feelĪ surge of joy too, at realizing that these artists We are on board, its a heartbreaking ending. We can subsidize greed, we can make him better than us, because
Home unscathed) can reveal him to us, or, we can sell him his pen, Like the car changing colors, the fact that he did NOT make it Is in our hands, the truth (which is very slippery in the film, The need isįor him to be sold HIS OWN damn pen. Thats what Jordan doesĪs well with the pen. Identity!įurther, Jordan congratulates the weed dealerįor "creating urgency". It make you? Think of him throwing his watch,Īnd all the hands reaching out for it. Which is theīasis for selling people what they buy. To fall for it? After seeing what this guy is all about? After realizing just what a "bad" guy he is, do you still want to be just like him? The movie seems to suggest that most people DO want to be just like him, even after all that.
That fakeĪudience represents the real audience. Just like the real jordan introduces the fake jordan. Supposed to represent the audience in the movie theater. What that does, is make them feel like failures, like they He just takes the pen away from them and moves down. Then, this "bad" guy, tries to get people to sell him a pen. So, basically he has just called himself a bad person. The real Jordan says about himself "this guy is one of the BADDEST mother $&*#%I know". They had the real Jordan Belfort introduce Leo in that scene.
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