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Stratton Oakmont

Theodore Shapiro

Opening score music.

Dust My Broom

Elmore James

Jordan narrates his life at the start of the movie. He talks about his white Ferrari and his model wife.

Dust My Blues

Song as Jordan is trying to land his helicopter while high at the start of the movie.

Howlin' Wolf

Jordan talks about the all the drugs he use.

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans

Jordan arrives at Wall Street on his first day.

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Jordan is at the strip club doing cocaine after 6 months on wall street.

Bang! Bang!

Jordan sells his first penny stock, he meets Donnie at the diner.

Tear It Down

Clyde McCoy

Jordan and Donnie smoke crack.

Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)

Jordan brings together his sale friends to introduce them to his brokerage idea.

Surrey With the Fringe On Top

Ahmad Jamal Trio

Jordan buys his wife a diamond necklace.

Road Runner

Stratton Oakfield start expanding and selling penny stocks to rich people.

Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa

The marching band and strippers parade through Stratton Oakfield to celebrate their week.

Smokestack LIghtning

They all celebrate their end of week profits. They roll around with strippers as the DEA starts to investigate their firm.

Double Dutch

Malcolm McLaren

After the Forbes article, hundreds of kids rock up trying to get a job with them. Jordan also hires the enforcer, Mad Max.

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

Jordan talks about the different types of hookers the office use.

Insane in the Brain

Cypress Hill

First song at Jordans huge house party.

King Arthur, Act 3: What Power Art Thou

The Monteverdi Choir

Donnie is high on Quaaludes at the party. Slow motion shot as he leans over Jordans shoulder as they play beer pong.

Never Say Never

Naomi arrives at Jordan's party and they are introduced for the first time.

There Is No Greater Love

Jordan and Naomi have dinner together.

John Lee Hooker

Noami tells Jordan they're not going to be friends. They drive home together after their dinner.

C'est Si Bon

Eartha Kitt

Jordan is doing cocaine off of Naomi in the limo before his wife catches him.

Give Me Luv

Noami walks in on the gay orgy in her house.

Uncontrollable Urge

Jordan describes how a rat hole works as they play golf. The SEC visits.

Moonlight In Vermont

Jordan asks Naomi to marry him.

Pretty Thing

Jordans bachelor party at the mirage and continues onto the plane. Again at his wedding as they dance.

In the Bush

Second song on the plane as they have sex with hookers and do drugs.

Can't Help Falling In Love

Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires

A version of this song can be heard at the wedding reception on the beach.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Live song at the wedding.

Baby Got Back

Sir Mix-A-Lot

Dancing to this song at the wedding.

Foo Fighters

After Jordan buys Naomi a yacht for her wedding present.

Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You

Jimmy Castor

Song after Jordans speech to his brokers, they start selling Steve Maddens stock.

Sloop John B

Me First and The Gimme Gimmes

Jordan kicks the agents of his boat. He talks about taking drugs so he can make the flight to Switzerland.

Boom Boom Boom

The Outhere Brothers

Jordan is dancing at a club during the drool phase of taking his ludes.

I Need You Baby (Mona)

Jordan goes to his aunt to ask if he can use her name for a swiss bank account.

Meth Lab Zoso Sticker

They strap their cash to the Swiss hooker. They start smuggling the cash into Switzerland.

Flying High (from Family Matters)

Bennett Salvay & Jesse Frederick

Belfort and Azoff watch an episode of Family Matters, waiting for the Quaaludes to kick in.

Dream Lover (from Popeye meets Hercules)

Clifford Grey & Victor Schertzinger

Azoff is on the phone while the show is playing in the background

Score from Popeye meets Hercules

Winston Sharples

Belfort and Azoff get into a fight while the sow is playing in the background

Popeye the Sailor Man (Remastered)

Sammy Lerner

In the house, after taking the lemmons, when Donnie is suffocating, Jordan takes some cocaine inspired by Popeye (on tv)

Hip Hop Hooray

Naughty By Nature

Brad shows up on the yacht party after his jail comeback

One Step Beyond

Inspector 7

Stratton Oakmont start getting subpoenas. Donnie pisses on them.

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

Charles Mingus

Jordan and Donnie go to Italy. They get a phone call informing them Steve Madden is unloading shares.

Umberto Tozzi

They are rescued from sea and dance with the Italians.

Infomercial

Belfort shoots an infomercial before being arrested by the FBI

Ça plane pour moi

Plastic Bertrand

Jordan is arrested by the FBI.

Get Us Down (from Family Matters)

Scene from Family Matters

Mrs. Robinson

The Lemonheads

The FBI makes arrest in the entire company.

Cast Your Fate To the Wind

Allen Toussaint

First song during end credits.

The Money Chant

Robbie Robertson ft. Matthew McConaughey

Second song during end credits.

Score from Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous

Michael Karp

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I Don't Want to Walk Without You

Frank Loesser & Jule Styne

Black Skinhead

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How Jordan Belfort's 37m superyacht Nadine sank off the coast of Sardinia

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Coco Chanel was famously outspoken on many things, but yachting, in particular, attracted her ire. “As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom,” she was once quoted as saying.

Her solution was to buy her own yacht. A 37m with a steel hull, built by the Dutch yard Witsen & Vis of Alkmaar. The yacht passed through many hands, finally ending up belonging to the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, on whose watch she foundered and sank in 1996.

The yacht was originally built for a Frenchman under the name Mathilde , but he backed out and she caught Chanel’s eye instead. With a narrow beam, a high bow and the long, low superstructure typical of Dutch yachts of her era, she was certainly a beautiful boat. But she was also well equipped, with five staterooms in dark teak panelling, magnificent dining facilities, room for big tenders and, later, a helipad. A frequent sight along the Florida coast, she caught the eye of a young skipper called Mark Elliott.

“In those days, she was the biggest yacht on the East Coast,” he remembers. “Nobody had ever seen anything like it. I needed a wrench once and went up to the boat - Captain Norm Dahl was really friendly.” He didn’t know it then, but Elliott was destined to become the skipper of the boat himself and was at the helm when the storm of the century took her to the bottom off Sardinia.

Coco Chanel died in 1971 and sometime thereafter the yacht was renamed Jan Pamela under the new ownership of Melvin Lane Powers. He was a flamboyant Houston real estate developer, fond of crocodile skin cowboy boots and acquitted of murder in a trial that gripped the nation.

Powers sent Jan Pamela to Merrill Stevens yard in Miami, where a mammoth seven-metre section was added amidships. “We made templates for the boat where we were going to cut her in half, then she went out for another charter season,” remembers Whit Kirtland, son of the yard owner. “When the boat came back in, we cut it just forward of the engine room, rolled the two sections apart and welded it in.”

He remembers how the sun’s heat made the bare and painted metal expand at different rates. “You had to weld during certain time periods – early in the morning or late at night,” says Kirtland.

The result of the extension was a huge new seven-metre full-beam master stateroom, an extra salon and one further cabin – pushing the charter capacity to seven staterooms. During this refit, the boat’s colour was also changed from white to taupe. “No one had really done it before and it was gorgeous,” says Elliott. By 1983, Powers was bankrupt and the yacht was sold on again. She next shows up named Edgewater .

Elliott’s chance came in 1989. He was working for the established yacht owner Bernie Little, who ran a hugely profitable distribution business for Bud brewer Anheuser-Busch. “Bernie Little had always wanted to own the boat,” Elliott says. “He loved it. He bought it sight unseen – and I started a huge restoration programme, including another extension to put three metres in the cockpit.”

It was a massive task, undertaken at Miami Ship. “We pulled out all the windows, re-chromed everything, repainted – brought it back to life,” says Elliott. They also cut out old twin diesels from GM and replaced them with bigger CAT engines, doubling her horsepower to 800. “Repowered, she could cruise at up to 20 knots. She was long and skinny, like a destroyer.”

A smart hydraulic feature was also brought to life for the first time. Under two of the sofas in the main stateroom were hidden 3.6m x 1.2m glass panels giving a view of the sea under the boat. At the push of a button, the sofas lifted up and mirrors above allowed you to gaze at the seabed – from the actual bed.

Now called Big Eagle , like all of Little’s boats, she was a charter hit and her top client was a certain New York financier named Jordan Belfort. He fell in love with her and begged Little to sell to him. But he needed to secure financing, and in 1995, Little agreed to hold a note on the boat for a year if Mark Elliott stayed on as skipper.

With the boat rechristened Nadine after his wife, Belfort set about another round of refit work, restyling the interior with vintage deco and lots of mirrors, extending the upper deck this time, and fitting a crane capable of raising and stowing the Turbine Seawind seaplane.

Nadine also carried a helicopter, a 10m Intrepid tender, two 6m dinghies on the bow, four motorbikes, six jetskis, state-of-the-art dive gear. “You pretty much needed an air traffic controller when all these things were in the water,” says Elliott.

Belfort’s partying was legendary and Elliott clearly saw eye-watering things on board, but as far as he was concerned, he was there to safeguard the boat. “When Jordan Belfort became the owner, he could do whatever he wanted. I was there to protect the note,” says Elliott. “He is a brilliant mind and a lovely person. It was just when he was in his party mode, he was out of control.”

Nadine and her huge cohort of toys and vehicles plied all the usual yachting haunts on both sides of the Atlantic. But Belfort’s love story was to be short-lived. Disaster struck with the boss and guests on board during an 85-mile crossing between Civitavecchia in Italy and Calle de Volpe on Sardinia.

What was forecast to be a 20-knot blow and moderate seas degenerated into a violent 70-knot storm with crests towering above 10.6m, according to Elliott. Wave after wave pounded the superstructure, stoving in hatches and windows so that water poured below and made the boat sluggish. By a miracle the engine room remained dry and they could maintain steerage way, motoring slowly through the black of the night as rescue attempt after rescue attempt was called off.

Nadine eventually sank at dawn in over 1000m of water just 20 miles from the coast of Sardinia. Everyone had been taken off by helicopter, and there was no loss of life. Captain Mark Elliott was roundly congratulated for his handling of the incident. “The insurance paid immediately because it was the storm of the century,” he says. “I took the whole crew but one with me to [Little’s next boat] Star Ship . That was my way to come back.”

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Soundtrack needle-drops are a well-established trademark of Martin Scorsese’s filmmaking. He played the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” over Johnny Boy entering the bar in Mean Streets , he played Ray Charles’ “Come Rain or Come Shine” over the opening credits of The King of Comedy , and he played Sid Vicious’ cover of “My Way” at the end of Goodfellas .

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With its fast-paced editing and voiceover narration, The Wolf of Wall Street felt like a throwback to the traditional Scorsese style after a couple of tonal departures. The movie’s soundtrack has its fair share of needle-drops.

“Dust My Broom” By Elmore James

One of the many Scorsese trademarks in The Wolf of Wall Street is voiceover narration. Whereas the voiceovers in Goodfellas and Casino were used to explain the inner workings of the mob, the voiceovers in The Wolf of Wall Street were used to explain the complexities of stock trades.

Over Jordan’s opening voiceover about the color of his Ferrari, Scorsese plays the sumptuous sounds of Elmore James’ “Dust My Broom.” This song reappears later when Jordan recklessly flies his helicopter while high on Quaaludes.

“Smokestack Lightning” By Howlin’ Wolf

From orgies to drug binges to people-tossing events, all kinds of depravity goes on at the offices of Stratton Oakmont. Jordan believes that his employees’ morale will be boosted if he has a whirlwind of drugs and prostitutes swooping through the office at all times.

During one of the hard-R orgy sequences in the office, Scorsese plays the bluesy guitar strings of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smokestack Lightning.”

“Boom Boom” By John Lee Hooker

During Jordan’s first dinner with Naomi, she ambiguously tells him that they’re not going to be friends. As Jordan drives Naomi home, he tries to think of a way to elevate their relationship from non-friends to lovers. While these thoughts are running through his head, John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom” plays in the background.

Covered more famously by the Animals , “Boom Boom” was called “the greatest pop song [Hooker] ever wrote” by music critic Charles Shaar Murray in the book Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century .

“Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” By Billy Joel

Billy Joel is one of the most popular musical artists in the world, but his songs don’t often appear on the soundtracks of movies. One of the most memorable examples is the doowop-only Billy Joel cover band that performs at the Catalina Wine Mixer in Step Brothers .

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Scorsese licensed one of Joel’s biggest hits – “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” – for the scene in The Wolf of Wall Street in which Jordan gathers his sales team to pitch a brokerage idea.

“C’est Si Bon” By Eartha Kitt

One of the most crucial moments in The Wolf of Wall Street sees Jordan’s first wife catching him with the mistress who ultimately becomes his second wife. He’s faced with a make-or-break decision: try to make it work with his first wife or divorce her and marry the mistress.

He’s caught red-handed in the worst way possible, snorting cocaine off of Naomi in the back of a limo. This scene is underscored by Eartha Kitt’s “C’est Si Bon.”

“Insane In The Brain” By Cypress Hill

Jordan hosts many wild parties throughout The Wolf of Wall Street , but most of them take place at the offices of Stratton Oakmont. In one key sequence, he brings the partying to his house as he hosts his employees and a bunch of friends and well-wishers at his mansion.

The first song that plays at this gargantuan house party is “Insane in the Brain” by Cypress Hill, the first hip-hop group to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“Pretty Thing” By Bo Diddley

A bunch of famous songs play during Jordan and Naomi’s wedding in The Wolf of Wall Street , including a cover version of Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger,” one of the all-time greatest James Bond movie themes.

Bo Diddley’s “Pretty Thing” is another song that plays during the wedding sequence. Leonardo DiCaprio performed a truly iconic dance for this wedding scene.

“Popeye The Sailor Man” By Sammy Lerner

Arguably the most iconic and beloved sequence in The Wolf of Wall Street is when Jordan and Donnie take expired Lemmon-brand Quaaludes. They think they’ve gone off, so they keep taking more and more until suddenly, they hit. After the high kicks in, Jordan just about makes it back to the house, where he desperately tries to stop Donnie from talking business on his FBI-tapped phones.

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When Donnie chokes on a cold cut and needs Jordan’s help, Jordan sees Popeye eating spinach to bulge out his muscles on the TV and – set hilariously to the “Popeye the Sailor Man” theme – he takes cocaine to create a similar effect.

“Mrs. Robinson” By The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads’ headbanging cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” plays over the glorious sequence in which FBI agents raid Stratton Oakmont’s office and finally bring Jordan’s criminal empire crumbling down.

This marks the second time that Scorsese has used a punk rock cover of a classic song to represent the hammer of justice. Sid Vicious’ cover of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” plays over Henry Hill’s mundane suburban existence as a protected witness at the end of Goodfellas .

“Cast Your Fate To The Wind” By Allen Toussaint

The final scene of The Wolf of Wall Street utilizes Allen Toussaint’s cover of the Grammy-winning Vince Guaraldi hit “Cast Your Fate to the Wind.” At the end of the movie, Jordan is shown to have gotten off lightly as he enjoys life as a free man, giving seminars to wannabe business tycoons.

He uses his usual trick to make the seminar attendees feel like they’re beneath him. He gives them a pen and puts them on the spot: “Sell me this pen.” The final shot of gawping consumers points to the audience’s own role in a capitalist society that allows people like Jordan Belfort to thrive .

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Jordan Belfort’s ex-wife tells the real story behind the yacht on The Wolf of Wall Street

The ex-wife of jordan belfort shed some light on the infamous scene.

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Jordan Belfort's ex wife, Nadine Macaluso, has set the record straight about the scene in The Wolf Of Wall Street where Belfort splashes out and buys his wife a yacht on their wedding day.

I mean, when you have a lot of money , what better way to treat your new spouse after saying I do?

After their lavish wedding, Belford ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) covers Nadine's, or Naomi as she's known in the movie, eyes with a blindfold before revealing the huge yacht, which has been christened the 'Naomi'.

And Naomi (played by Margot Robbie ) cannot contain her excitement.

"Are you serious? A f***ing yacht?!" she exclaims.

However, it seems that the real Belfort wasn't very serious, as Macaluso revealed on TikTok that her ex-husband, who she was married to from 1991 to 2005, 'did not' actually buy her a boat on their wedding day.

She said: "Actually what happened I think we were married for a few years and we were always chartering yachts, because he loved to do that.

"And I had given birth to my beautiful daughter Chandler and he said 'I want to buy a yacht'."

However, this idea didn't sit well with Macaluso at the time.

She continued: "I said 'I don't think we should buy a yacht, we have a baby and I don't feel comfortable.

'She can't swim.'

"I had visions of her falling off the boat and I was actually terrified.

"I did not want to buy the yacht ironically. And he was like 'Nope, I'm buying a yacht and I'm calling it the Nadine'. And I was like 'Okay, here we go'.

"And you know how that went."

Macaluso's final line is a nod to a scene in the film, in which Belfort and Naomi need to be rescued from the yacht after it gets caught up in a storm.

This scene was indeed based on the real life sinking of the ship in June 1996, which resulted in a rescue by the Italian Navy Special forces.

The yacht was sunk after violent waves repeatedly hit it, but luckily everyone on board was able to escape the ship in time.

Macaluso has previously commented on the scene's accuracy , where she admitted in a TikTok video that the yacht sinking scene was 'totally true'.

Speaking of the memory, she said: "It was horrific, horrifying, we were in a squall for 12 to 18 hours and we lived, thank god, for my kids."

She even showed real life footage of her, Belford and their friends being rescued by the Navy.

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Iconic Scenes: The Wolf of Wall Street – The Yacht Bribe

I love The Wolf of Wall Street . I think it is a spectacular film that seems to grow more relevant as time passes. I also think that the central character and narrator, Jordan Belfort, is not the most important or key character – that is Agent Denham. So I’m looking at the brilliant scene where Belfort and Denham first meet.

What Happens

Multi-millionaire and thoroughly corrupt stockbroker Jordan Belfort invites two FBI agents to his luxury yacht after he learns that they are investigating him. Agent Denham, and a virtually silent partner, arrive for what starts as a very friendly meeting. Belfort hands over some of the information the FBI has been trying to get while constantly trying to impress them with his wealth and insisting he’s done nothing wrong. Belfort draws Denham into a conversation and it seems the FBI agent is not happy at being given the case and would be willing to play ball with Belfort. At which point, Belfort tries to bribe Denham, and then the tone changes. It’s immediately obvious that Denham is not willing to play ball and is determined to bring Belfort down. The conversation gets increasingly acrimonious and ends with Belfort literally throwing lobsters and handfuls of cash at the departing FBI agents.

When you sail on a yacht fit for a Bond villain, sometimes you gotta act the part

DiCaprio is sensational in this scene. Despite getting very good advice not to contact the FBI and try some scheming, this is exactly what Belfort does. They meet on his insanely luxurious yacht, where Belfort has beautiful women lounging on chairs, he is dressed in bright white “yacht clothes” and constantly turning on his beaming smile. He offers them lobsters and drinks. It does not seem to occur to Belfort that showing off his immense, and ill-gotten wealth, might not be the best idea when you’re being investigated for crimes in the stock market.

Belfort’s attempt at bribery is fantastic. Basically detailing a story where he advised someone in need of money in what stocks to invest in and that person making a fortune and how Belfort “would be willing to do that for anyone”. When challenged about this being a bribe Belfort reveals he researched what legally constitutes a bribe and that wouldn’t count. Again, it’s a little suspicious for someone to be able to recite the criminal code of a crime if they’re not a lawyer.

Good for you, Little Man

Oh, Agent Denham, you film stealing hero. Denham is played by Kyle Chandler who, and this is important for the Denham role, is your go-to guy for American decency (if you need someone younger than Tom Hanks), he is probably best known for his role in Friday Night Lights where he played an honourable, upstanding and inspirational football coach. Denham’s casual chatting with Belfort seems to suggest he is not interested in the case and possibly dissatisfied with his job, the attempted bribe being when he flips to his real character.

As Belfort becomes more aggressive Denham responds in kind and leads to one of the all-time best deliveries, “Good for you, little man,” when sarcastically congratulating Belfort on becoming a Wall Street douchebag without any help from anyone else. Belfort is stunned by this comment but mainly in that he can’t understand it…he’s rich, really rich, how can he be a “little man”, he’s a giant. A colossus. The embodiment of the American Dream. The thing is, of course, Denham is right.

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A lot of this scene is purely about status. Of all the places Belfort could have met with the FBI agents he chooses his insanely expensive yacht. He is obsessed with money and how much the FBI agents make, originally pretending to be sympathetic but quickly changing to just mocking them. Belfort assumes that because Denham works for the FBI for what to him is an insignificant amount of money he is a loser. The idea that Denham might believe in what he’s doing is either inconceivable or at best a pitiable weakness. To me, this is the best and most interesting scene in the whole film – not the drug-filled hedonistic parties, not the cult-like team talks Belfort gives his employees, not the incredibly charismatic phone calls Belfort makes when selling stocks but this scene where Denham sizes up Belfort and sees right through him.

Years ago David Cross and Bob Odenkirk made a sketch show called Mr. Show , which contained a sketch based on the premise “someone who makes more money than you is better than you”, so Van Gogh, Einstein and Galileo are actually pretty unsuccessful people. This is Jordan Belfort’s philosophy – he is better than just about everyone he meets because he is richer.

The Hero I’m Going To Be Back At The Office, When The Bureau seizes this boat!

All Belfort manages to do in this scene is upset the FBI and probably convince them that yes, he is absolutely breaking the law. It’s an interesting look at the dynamic of power in America (and indeed the whole world) – who is the more powerful person? Belfort with his huge personal wealth or Denham as a federal officer, a representative of the most powerful country on Earth. There was a lot of discussion at the time about if people actually saw Belfort as the hero of this film, that people liked him and wanted him to win. I saw this as Goodfellas but for white-collar crime. In this scene Belfort helps further his own downfall, antagonising the FBI. In the final moments of this scene, Belfort has just finished throwing money at Denham and his arrogance and deluded grandeur fade as he realises he has just made a terrible mistake.

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Martin Scorsese ‘Kept Fighting’ for ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Yacht Scene to Be in Final Cut

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Martin Scorsese was determined that “ The Wolf of Wall Street ” would have a sinking ship onscreen.

The blockbuster, Oscar-nominated 2013 film which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as real-life disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort, was originally a whopping four hours long. While the film was eventually trimmed down to 180 minutes, screenwriter Terence Winter revealed that Scorsese refused to cut an expensive yacht sequence.

“Because [the script] was so long, you know, the fear was there were going be things that we were gonna have to cut — like the sequence where the boat sinks and they get rescued at sea,” Winter told The Hollywood Reporter . “It was on the chopping block for the longest time because it was so wild and so expensive. To his credit, Marty just kept fighting and said, ‘We have to have that. I have to have that.'”

The scene involves Belfort (DiCaprio) and his wife Naomi ( Margot Robbie ) having to be rescued by helicopter when sailing from Italy to Monaco in a desperate attempt to stop federal investigators from accessing bank accounts.

“There was actually a four-hour cut of that movie initially and it was just a lot more insanity — if you can believe there was room for any,” Emmy winner Winter continued. “But I was absolutely thrilled that everything got in there. Every possible thing… including the kitchen sink… is in that movie. I could not have been more happy with it.”

Acclaimed editor and longtime Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker previously told IndieWire that the four-hour cut is beloved by those who had seen it, and Scorsese even considered releasing it in two parts. “Well, we thought about it,” Schoonmaker said. “But the film doesn’t work split in half. It has to have a certain arc.”

Actress Robbie recently revealed that the overnight success of “The Wolf of Wall Street” was overwhelming at times, saying, “Something was happening in those early stages and it was all pretty awful. I remember saying to my mom, ‘I don’t think I want to do this.’ And she just looked at me, completely straight-faced, and was like, ‘Darling, I think it’s too late not to.’ That’s when I realized the only way was forward.”

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Charter Yacht 'LADY M' featured in new ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Film

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By Editorial Team   6 January 2014

The 45m/147’ charter yacht 'LADY M' is the setting for a number of scenes shot with Leonardo DiCaprio for his new Martin Scorcese-directed film ‘Wolf of Wall Street’.

Scenes on board motor yacht LADY M were filmed in North Cove Marina, New York for the highly-anticipated movie due out in cinemas later this month. ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ is based on the rise and fall of high-flying, fast-living real life stock broker Jordan Belfort, played by DiCaprio as he raked in more than $50 million a year on the stock market.

Belfort set up boiler room Stratton Oakmont in the 1990’s and enjoyed an outrageously excessive lifestyle of drugs, women, planes and of course superyachts before being imprisoned for 22 months corruption and fraud.  LADY M is used in the film to represent Belfort’s own superyacht ‘NADINE’, named after his second wife, which was a 41m luxury motor yacht originally built for Coco Chanel in 1961.

‘NADINE’ sank in July 1997 following an instruction from Belfort while he was high on drugs to the Captain to head into a storm on a cruise from Porto Cervo to Capri. The yacht was battered by 15m waves and sank along with a number of toys including a seaplane, helicopter and eight jet skis however all passengers were successfully rescued by the Italian Coast Guard.

Built in 2002 by Intermarine Savannah , LADY M made for a luxurious setting for the film with her classically elegant interior that offers accommodation for up to 10 guests in five staterooms comprising a master suite, VIP, two doubles and one twin cabin. She is offered for charter at weekly rates starting from $125,000, contact your yacht broker for more details. 

'Wolf of Wall Street’ yacht scenes were filmed on board LADY M in North Cove Marina, New York for the highly-anticipated movie due out in cinemas later this month.

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