Post 4: Adapting the Book

Post 4:

Some challenges that a filmmaker would have in adapting The Wolf of Wall Street to a movie, would probably be capturing actually how extreme the book is. The book sometimes get into some serious detail about what is going on, which is what I find to be the most exciting, but I just think that filmmakers would have some troubles portraying that.

One scene that I think would be essential to add to the film would be when the Duchess is teasing Jordan. Jordan had just recently cheated on her, but wants to become intimate with her. This is a must show in the movie because it is very interesting but also very funny at the same time. This was probably my favorite part in the book so far and I would not want to see it be left out of the movie. One other scene that I think would be a must to keep, is when they are in the workplace and it shows Jordan getting so mad and serious to the point to the point where he takes the fish out of the fishbowl and eats it. This part in the book shows how serious he is about his work and it would just also be very interesting to see actually happen. Jordan eats the fishbowl because a new employee is cleaning the fishbowl when he shouldn't be and it made him super mad. One final scene that I think must be in the film is that they should show how the company became to be. It started out to be very small and then Jordan built it up to be one of the biggest companies in all of the world.

One part of the book that I would want to cut out if it was made into a movie is when it shows Jordan talking to his driver. His driver isn't a talkative person at all so I feel as if that it wouldn't be needed in the movie. During the beginning of the book, it sometimes described their "conversations" and was very boring to me and it seemed unneeded. One other part that they should leave out of the movie is when the Duchess gets so mad at Jordan that she throws glasses of water on him. I feel as if they were to make this into a movie scene, that it shouldn't be just glasses of water and that it should be buckets, if anything. This part for me just kept going on and on even though it was only a few pages, but it was very boring to me.