Scorsese, Di Caprio e Hill parlano di The Wolf of Wall Street

In un’intervista al Wall Street Journal, Scorsese ed i suoi attori parlano del loro prossimo film.

Il regista sta cercando in ogni modo di finire il montaggio entro novembre, per poterlo lanciare il giorno di Natale. Diversamente si vedrà in sala solo nel 2014.

Per Di Caprio è il quinto film col regista newyorkese: The Wolf of Wall Street è a suo avviso “the real epitome of American greed”.

Il lavoro sul set è stato più facile del previsto: “There’s an ease in working with somebody that you trust this implicitly, but I think it’s gotten better and better as the years have gone by, simply because the trust level’s there, especially on this film. There was more improvising than we’d ever done before. We had a lot more freedom, specifically because this is a generation I understand. I lived through it. I was in New York in the ’90s, and I met people like this, and the music was of my generation. I had an ease for just diving into it and trying to document a certain time period that I very much understood. So if anyone came up with any insane suggestion, as long as it was in the context of that world, we just did it”

Secondo Scorsese il protagonista Jordan Belfort è diverso dagli altri trader o broker che il cinema ha rappresentato: “Gordon Gekko [in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street] is a figurehead, an established figure, a representative businessman. The salesmen in [ David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross ] are guys at the bottom, trying anything to make their sales, earn their commissions and keep their heads above water. Mark Zuckerberg [in The Social Network] is a single-minded guy with a plan. Jordan is something else. He has no plan, other than making as much money as possible as quickly as possible. He enters this world, masters it brilliantly, has a great time and spins out of control. Jordan was a guy who got around every obstacle and every regulation and then, because of drugs and the sheer addiction to wealth and what it brings, couldn’t bring himself to stop. Jordan risks a lot, but he does it because that’s part of the enjoyment—he’s so brilliant that he always tests the limits.”

“I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism—where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs—is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we’re talking about. There aren’t many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.”

Jordan Hill non usa mezze misure: “I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor’s dream. Nothing will ever compare to it, except for maybe having kids one day or something. Marty is my actual hero, so to get to work with him was six months of feeling like I’d won the lottery in life. Let alone to play this kind of insane character.”