The Wolf of Wall Street (re-pass)
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- twisty
- signature
Neutral, breathless, extreme drama / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Our read · The Wolf of Wall Street (re-pass) (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive drama · crime · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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