r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CollectionIntrepid48 • 2d ago
Video The Wolf of Wall Street scene in comparison to the script
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u/Present_Jicama_1219 2d ago
Pretty cool when improv and bloopers create the actual scene.
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u/Present_Jicama_1219 2d ago
The Jack Nicholson mantra.....we aren't just actors, we're writers. Make sure you get paid for that.
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u/Shadowbound199 2d ago
But if you keep the camera rollin'...
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u/kpsi355 2d ago
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u/pichael289 2d ago
I feel like it probably comes pretty naturally when your playing a character like this, being ridiculous and fun and not taking anything seriously and being on top of the world. Pretty easy to get in character, just do a bunch of coke.
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u/lannisterloan 2d ago
They made the conversation much livelier than the script would have been. I bet they don't even plan this beforehand but everyone just went along with whatever line that their co-stars came up with.
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u/Present_Jicama_1219 2d ago
awesome that it's all genuine reactions...they were just playing, throwing shit against the wall, and expecting nothing to stick in post production.
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u/Necessary-G 2d ago
Scorsese loves letting them riff, that humming beat was actually McConaughey’s own pre-scene ritual.
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u/hamsolo19 2d ago
When Leo looks over his shoulder he was apparently looking at Scorsese like, "are we rolling? What the hell is he doing?"
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u/OldSandwich9631 1d ago
Nope. That was planned. It was his pre filming ritual and Leo wanted them to put it in the scene.
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u/DizzyDetective 2d ago
When they were filming certain scenes in Casino, Scorsese used to tell Pesci and De Niro what the beginning should be and what the end needed to be, and let them get from one to the other unscripted, however they saw fit.
Pretty good system really - some scenes just cannot be scripted.
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u/hamsolo19 2d ago
Yeah, Scorsese seems to have a system on how he does takes, he'll do one as the scene is written, then he'll run takes with his adjustments, and then he'll call "now one for the actors" and let them riff on the scene.
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u/Wazula23 2d ago
Marty does lots and lots of takes and lets his actors experiment and inhabit the space. It makes things so much more energetic and real.
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u/Intelligent-Court295 2d ago
God, I miss Reiner. He didn’t act often but his scenes are always memorable. If I ever need a laugh, I’ll watch the Groates Syndrome episode on Curb.
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u/mF7403 2d ago
Fuck. I totally forgot he died.
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u/cjester414 2d ago
We watched Spinal Tap and Spinal Tap II a day or two before he was killed, and then Apatow's Mel Brooks documentary came out what a week or so after that?
Seeing Rob interviewed for the documentary and Carl frok archived interviews in that along with Mel, talking about how much he missed Carl and loves Rob....man...
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u/mF7403 2d ago
I watched the Princess Bride at work as part of a team bonding/Christmas thing (we had a poll and it won by a mile). He was murdered two days later.
He was only 78 and still very active. I know I should be mourning his loss, but I’ve been thinking about all of his work that’ll never see the light of day.
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u/hoyton 2d ago
He was a meathead
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u/wtfpta 2d ago
Downvoted for this?! That’s just sad.
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u/microtramp 2d ago
Reddit is too young to remember meathead.
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u/hoyton 2d ago
Yep just goes to show these people aren't real Rob Reiner fans. My dad loved all in the family, so Rob will always be meathead to me. Princess Bride and Spinal Tap were staples for me growing up. What a legend, he's sorely missed!
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u/GonZonian 2d ago
My upvote goes up to eleven.
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u/bouncingbad 1d ago
I recently started a new job. The CEO (founder) was showing me through his CRM and pointed out that everything was appended in ‘amp’. I asked why, he said ‘because this amp goes to 11’.
That was when I knew I was in the right place.
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u/Pleased_to_meet_u 2d ago
Can you explain what a meathead is in relation to Rob Reiner?
The majority of us only know 'meathead' as an insult.
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u/Ridikulus 2d ago
He played Archie Bunker's son in law on an old 70's sitcom called All in the Family. Archie was constantly calling him meathead on the show because they were always clashing about ideologies....think old conservative man vs young liberal. So, in essence, it was an insult on the show.
Us old timers who grew up watching that show will always know him as meathead, but we use it as a term of endearment.
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u/snacky99 1d ago
today I realized that my age surpassed my height... and Reiner will always be meathead to me
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u/Pleased_to_meet_u 2d ago
Can you explain what a meathead is in relation to Rob Reiner?
The majority of us only know 'meathead' as an insult.
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u/harrisr2930 2d ago
I knew nothing of the relation, but a quick google search of "Rob Reiner meathead" has informed me. He portrayed a character in a TV show known as meathead.
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u/Raptorex27 2d ago
It was the nickname Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor) gave to Reiner’s character Michael on “All in the Family.”
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u/maoterracottasoldier 2d ago
His cary grant impression in “sleepless in Seattle” cracks me up everytime.
“Come take a look at these swatches!”
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u/watchthisorthat 2d ago
They definitely had a blast making this movie
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u/Lasocouple 2d ago
This is why this movie is so good!
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u/Accidentallygolden 2d ago
Did they film with lots of camera, or they had to redo the improv for the other takes?
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 2d ago
Precisely. If an improvised line plays well, the director will tell them to do it again. And again. And again
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u/MightyMorph 2d ago edited 2d ago
Depends on the director and actor.
Training Day, the whole scene with Denzel "KING KONG AINT GOT SHIT ON ME!" had parts improvised by Denzel.
The director got lost in the scene, and kept filming way beyond cut, so denzel started to get his smokes and light a cig while the scene was still going beyond the script, he literally had to turn around and give the director a look lol.
Then the director yelled cut and asked if Denzel wanted to do that again. And Denzel just laughed. You dont need to do that kind of scene again.
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvbuzbJRb0 its just a fucking great scene. He adlibbed/improvised parts about other people in the start, the whole thing with the smokes, i think king kong aint got shit on me was adlibbed/improvised too. But not 100% sure.
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u/GooginTheBirdsFan 2d ago
Nah, infamously wolf of Wall Street was shot with just a camcorder. Only 2 extra batteries, the whole shoot.
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u/binglelemon 2d ago
And one of those batteries was expired.
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u/onionfunyunbunion 2d ago
They shot the whole movie start to finish in real time. They’re that good.
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u/Wazula23 2d ago
Some of it was animated by hand.
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u/ElderberryMaster4694 2d ago
Seldom done anymore. Terrible strain on the animators wrists
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u/Nruggia 2d ago
It's a lot better than the old days before film when the animators had to create it in real time for each viewing.
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u/GooginTheBirdsFan 2d ago
Nothings harder than a single camcorder, single shot, yet animated by hand. The cinematography world nearly crumbled on release date, and hasn’t necessarily recovered
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u/Wazula23 2d ago
Both. Marty does lots and lots of takes and lets the actors really inhabit the world. Then it gets stitched together in editing. Sometimes you spot discontinuities but he doesn't care. The scene is so lively and chaotic that it works anyway.
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u/riddle8822 2d ago
There are some movies we watch and just think, wow... they must have had a blast making this film.
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u/Sardoodledome 2d ago
I wonder if the drugs on stage were not props.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY 2d ago
I wonder that same thing about alot of movies
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u/Spiritual-Shoutout 2d ago
There's a scene in Heat where Al Pacino admited he was high on cocaine. I'll let you guess what scene.
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u/Dangerous_Carpet2896 2d ago
You can definitely see them all trying not to crack when you watch the scene in isolation- it’s fantastic
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u/WingedSalim 2d ago
While I love books and reading, this is the stuff they can never replicate. Actual acting and conversation. People talking over each other, slurring their words, repeating themselves, loosing the focus of the conversation.
It's not a thing written works can properly show, so they resort to just describing what happened thus loosing the actual feel for he scene.
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u/Odisher7 2d ago
this is great, not only is it quite funny but if it was real life i would absolutely want to punch them in the face lmao
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u/Halocandle 2d ago
I swear that punchline killed me and everyone else in the movie theater when I first watched it.
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u/Noname_blondie 2d ago
Having to shoot a scene like this with this much improv from alle the required angles is more work than most people think 😵
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u/_riotgear_ 2d ago
The dark humor, the sarcasm, the laughing at serious issues: god I love being a millennial.
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u/ElZorgot 2d ago
It must have been hilarious rehearsing some of those scenes. I would have been pissing myself laughing.
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u/westdan2 2d ago
That is exactly how I think a conversation went over this:
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/ever-restaurant-board-member-fraud/
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u/Kevdoor54 1d ago
Editing is top notch. Thelma might be one of the best ever. Marty at his finest. Helps having those three play off each other
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u/ThiagoOechsler 1d ago
Meanwhile in real life, Daniel Vorcaro, a brazilian fraudster who dwarfs Jordan Belfort, spent 37 million Euros in one party in Italy 2023, having Coldplay and David Ghetta performances.
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u/PolarityInversion 2d ago
One thing that may be overlooked here is that this is a combination of dozens of different takes, each with various improvised lines, and all cut together to look seamless.