Wolf: Alternate Ending

[peanut80]

From Indie Wire interview with Cristin Milioti

Interesting they considered using this information from the book, but opted not to .....

Cristin Milioti Talks Alternate Ending Of Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'


It speaks to the enduring curiosity of Martin Scorsese's much discussed 4-hour rough cut, that once again rumors of a "director's cut" on DVD have floated. But the director has long maintained he doesn't do that sort of thing, and the version you saw in theaters is the one he wanted you to see, though Scorsese did say last month that deleted scenes could surface. And could one of them be an alternate ending? According to Cristin Milioti, there was a conclusion that was different to the one you saw of Jordan Belfort weaving his manipulative magic as a motivational speaker.

Speaking with Vulture, the actress—who plays Leonardo DiCaprio's first wife in the film—revealed she had shot more material that didn't make the final cut, and which provided a different focus to the finale of the movie. "Well, I don’t know if I’m allowed to say this—there used to be a different ending. I shot a lot of the stuff in the very beginning and I remember the ending had something to do with me coming back. Like, you never saw me, but it was about making it right for that character," she explained. "And I’m only feeling weird saying that because I think that’s what happened and now I’m like, "Wait, did I just imagine a scene where they were going to indict me and he was like, 'No, I can’t wrong her twice.'" That script went through so many changes that I don’t remember."

Bringing Teresa back into the film so late in the game likely would've been slightly disorienting and changed the shape of the movie to some to degree, so it's a bit easy to see why Scorsese ultimately decided to keep the story centered on Jordan and his precipitous fall. But it does make us wonder who else, and what else, was left on the cutting room floor






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[sikri06]

It's not really surprising, because that ending was in the book. Marty made the right choice by not using it however. I would not have wanted to see Jordan redeemed that way.

[peanut80]

Sirki

No, for any of us who read the book, we knew that was the situation , but others didn't , so not using it goes back to the last discussion on the discussion thread that for those who thought in some way Marty was trying to 'glorify' Jordan, that there were incidents like this that Marty could have mentioned but didn't instead focusing on the wrong that Jordan did , so Marty certainly wasn't trying to paint Jordan in a good light

Like you, I also, think the movie /ending is done right as is because it speaks to , not only, Jordan's responsibility in what happened, the responsibility of the prosecuters /legal/justice system , as well as, the buyers responsibility

Like in the conclusion of Romeo & Juliet

And I, for winking at your discords, too

Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.

[arnzilla]

From the Indiewire comments section:

Brad | February 4, 2014 3:00

She is talking about a WAY EARLY script draft in which she features in an unspoken role. As Belfort and the FBI are arguing about whether he will indict his friends, he sees her waiting in the corridor with her new husband and the FBI explain that they are working their way through the case. In effect, they use her as bait for Belfort to rat on his colleagues. However, she doesn't come back in the shooting script. She would not have shot added material for the ending, a point that she says herself. The original sequence didn't "change the shape of the movie" at all. It simply attempted to add sympathy for Belfort, something that the deletion of her character avoids.

From Winter's first draft: