Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Wall Street bad boy Jordan Belfort, hasn’t yet rolled out in much of the world, so it remains to be seen where else there will be resistance. PHOTOS: Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio Spill Candid Stories on the Making of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ “It certainly concerns us that anyone is cutting our film, but every territory is different.” By contrast, he notes, “If you have a highly violent movie, it’s not a problem in the U.S., Asia and the Middle East, but it is a problem in Europe.” “Some of the content in the film makes it difficult in certain territories where they have censorship and can even ban films,” says Christian Mercuri, president of international at Red Granite. And in Singapore, Wolf has been relegated to only a handful of theaters because of its ultra-restrictive rating. Malaysia and Nepal have banned the film in recent days, while some scenes have been cut in the versions playing in India and Lebanon. And when he's not drinking, it's only because he's got a face full of pills and powders.Red Granite Pictures, the production and financing company that made the $100 million opus, knew going in that the Middle East and parts of Asia might not take too kindly to some of the film’s more decadent scenes. DiCaprio, playing the vulpine stock broker, spends much of the film's three-hour run with a glass in his hand, either sipping, toasting or chucking them into the bushes in his front garden.
To which canon we can add Leonardo DiCaprio's note-perfect embodiment of bladdered in The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's 2013 adaptation of the memoir by Jordan Belfort. What makes for an iconic depiction of on-screen intoxication? While many performances rely on little more than slurred speech and floppy movements to convey being sloshed, the best are more subtle, capturing some flash of truth of what it's like to be in that state: Humphrey Bogart's forlorn bar slump in Casablanca Good Will Hunting's cocksure cry of "how do you like them apples?" Jack Nicholson's maniacal grin while sat at the bar in The Shining or Richard E Grant's pink-eyed, lane-swerving driving in Withnail and I.
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