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Post by arnzilla on Dec 15, 2013 16:54:05 GMT -5
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Post by arnzilla on Dec 15, 2013 22:24:17 GMT -5
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will
President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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Post by will on Dec 16, 2013 18:30:23 GMT -5
WOWS is featured twice in FILM.com's The 100 Best Movies Scenes of 2013:www.film.com/movies/the-100-best-movie-scenes-of-2013/81.) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET // "Lemmons" {Spoiler - scene description} It would be accurate (if a touch reductive) to classify Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” as a white-collar “Caligula” for the 20th century and beyond, and the 71-year-old director drops a heavy gauntlet of debauchery by opening the film with a scene in which one of the world’s most famous movie stars (Leonardo DiCaprio) snorts cocaine out of a stripper’s rectum. I mean, where do you go from there? If that’s our starting point, how does a breathless three-hour film about Jordan Belfort, capitalism’s worst nightmare, keep finding ways to make us marvel at the iniquities of its “hero”? The answer, as it apparently is to most of life’s questions, is a potent strain of quaaludes referred to as “lemmons.”
The scene effectively serves as the climax of the film. Belfort and his best pal Donnie (Jonah Hill), at the height of their wealth and the noose closing tight, pop their prized pills and enjoy an episode of “Family Matters” as they wait for the drugs to kick in. But they don’t. So they take some more pills. And then some more. Maybe the pills, which are long-expired, have lost their potency? …Or maybe not.
By the time DiCaprio is struggling to pack his body through the passenger door of his absurd car like a disoriented Jacques Tati playing a live-action game of Qwop, you know you’re watching the funniest scene of the year. By the time a second drug is urgently mixed into the equation, you know you’re watching one of the greatest scenes of Scorsese’s career. The lemmons sequence isn’t just a genius bit of physical comedy, it also sublimely captures the ridiculous despair required for this degree of excess, and breathes new life into the uniquely pathetic brand of brotherly love that allowed Jordan and Donnie to afford to be such phenomenal failures. – DE www.film.com/movies/the-100-best-movie-scenes-of-2013/724.) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET // "Plane to Switzerland" {Spoiler - scene description} Ah, Switzerland, refuge of the illegitimately rich, where the banks are strongholds impervious to American subpoenas and Wall Street’s lupine tycoons are free to do as they please. DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort feels compelled to syphon his off-the-books earnings to this legendary safe haven after the Feds begin nosing around his operation, but the journey there, as he tells us in voiceover, requires a flight he couldn’t possibly handle sober. Thus: a diet of heavy sedatives, appropriately parceled out and meticulously timed, and an all-night bender that culminates, quite gloriously, with on-plane party before takeoff. After the debauchery that ensues it’s hard to believe they weren’t tossed off the plane altogether. Thank God for First Class. – CM Also, the Lemmons scene is found in A.V. Onion's Best Film Scenes of 2013: www.avclub.com/article/the-best-film-scenes-of-2013-200650{Spoiler - scene description} The Lemmon 714 Quaaludes, The Wolf Of Wall Street Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of stock fraudster Jordan Belfort’s memoir is essentially a drug comedy in financial crime drag. Told by his first boss (Matthew McConaughey) that cocaine is the real secret to Wall Street success, Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) proceeds to snort his way to the top. But while cocaine fuels Belfort’s penny-stock empire, his real passion are Quaaludes, the once-popular sedatives which were taken off the market in the 1980s because of their extensive potential for “recreational use.”
To Quaalude connoisseurs like Belfort and his business partner Donnie (Jonah Hill), the most sought-after high comes in the form of a triple-strength, pre-criminalization ’lude called the Lemmon 714. Late in the film, Belfort and Donnie decide to try some of Donnie’s stash, which he’s been saving for a special occasion. Believing (incorrectly) that the pills have lost some of their potency after 15 years in storage, Belfort swallows a handful. At a key moment, just as he realizes that he urgently needs to get home, the Lemmon 714s kick in. Belfort first finds himself unable to form words, then robbed of his fine motor skills and the ability to walk. The scene that follows is a go-for-broke piece of bizarre slapstick comedy, with Belfort trying to squirm and writhe his way out of a country club. Phones are useless, and stairs become an insurmountable obstacle. It’s the pièce de résistance of DiCaprio’s gonzo performance. The scene climaxes with an interminably long, unbroken shot of Belfort trying to open his car’s butterfly doors using only his feet. With this film and The Counselor, it’s been a banner year for weird, physically demanding scenes involving Ferraris. And Wolf is ranked No. 37 on Film Comment's 50 Best Films of 2013:www.filmcomment.com/entry/50-best-films-of-2013
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Post by arnzilla on Dec 16, 2013 19:16:04 GMT -5
Who ever woulda thought that " one of the greatest scenes of Scorsese’s career" would involve Urkel?
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kim
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Post by kim on Dec 16, 2013 19:24:25 GMT -5
Can't wait to see those scenes among others
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Post by arnzilla on Dec 16, 2013 19:42:20 GMT -5
Ken Adams
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Post by arnzilla on Dec 22, 2013 23:56:47 GMT -5
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