A little overview before the Oscars (part II)

On my previous post, everything was cute, intellectual, sophisticated. Now, let's get more grungy! 

I must admit I have a soft spot for films where the sketchy, the drug dealing, the drug using, the underworld or filthy rich are very much present. This twisted taste kind of reminds me of the act of rubbernecking. Why in the world do we slow down, twist our necks to the point they will break just to take a pic at a possible nasty bloody scene or a horribly destroyed animal on the road??? Makes no sense, but still, we all do. 

Dallas Buyers Club and The Wolf of Wall Street are both a pretty good example of this twisted love for the perfectly well documented and executed stories from the underworlds.

Some film director once told me that a good script with shitty actors was a shitty movie, but a shitty movie with spectacular actors was, at least, a good movie. And because I believe so too, I'd have to say that even if the scripts of these two movies weren't awesome, the casts were so outstanding that there were very low chances of having a bad movie here. 

For years now I've been obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio (I'd give him an Oscar just because he is Leonardo DiCaprio), but putting all emotions aside and trying to be fair here, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both deserve that Oscar without a doubt. They simply rocked that plot, got you so into every word, every scene, every emotion that you end up madly biased for the unbalanced sick drug user-sketchy-guy selling HIV drugs to the gay community of Dallas and it's genuine, cocaine addict travesty partner. (BTW, Jared Leto's character was such an amazing person that I want a friend like that.)  

The story, the dialogues, the acting and the cinematography were so good I walked out of the theater wanting to become one of those fanatic activists who stand outside the Congress giving away pamphlets to burn all FDA members and pharmaceutical lobbyists. (it touched me!) 

Now, even if you are not a movie freak, when you hear Scorsese, DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, you can't help to think: "That sounds like good stuff" And hell yeah! The Wolf of Wall Street is a three hour long movie, so entertaining, that will make you hold your need to go to the bathroom even if you feel you are about to explode. 

Quaaludes, cocaine and sex are always present. Maybe a little bit too much. (And that's a lot coming from me) But only DiCaprio and Jonah Hill could turn such an extravaganza into some of the most hilarious sex and drugs scenes ever. 

I haven't read the books, and have been told they are even better than the movie, but I can tell you that those dialogues and sequences were so well chosen that Scorsese deserves Best Direction Award for sure!  

You can laugh all movie long, you can hate money, love money, question society, even question yourself for wanting to party with them, but one thing is for sure: No one could have done a better job portraying the life of Jordan Belfort as this guys did.