Wolf Of Wall Street Sociology

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The Wolf of Wall Street is a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, a kid with big dreams to become rich. In order to gain wealth he lures people to buy penny stocks so he himself can get more money. The movie The Wolf of Wall street lacks the victim’s perspective but it is not needed. Linette Lopez writes in her article on BusinessInsider.com [Dec 18 2013 13.15] “The best and worst things about ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’” that the victim’s perspective is missing and therefore not displaying Jordan Belfort as the villain he truly is. This is wrong, because in one part Belfort explains how he lures his clients into investing in penny stocks and thus pumping up the prices of the stocks. Then Jordan Belfort and his company Stratton

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