Summary

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by
Martin Scorsese. The screenplay by Terence Winter is adapted from the memoir of the same
name by Jordan Belfort. It recounts Belfort's perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New
York City and how his firm Stratton Oakmont engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall
Street that ultimately led to his downfall. Leonardo DiCaprio (who was also a producer) stars as
Belfort, with Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as his
second wife Naomi Lapaglia and Kyle Chandler as Patrick Denham, the FBI agent who tries to
bring him down. Matthew McConaughey, Rob Reiner, Jon Favreau, Joanna Lumley and Jean
Dujardin are also featured.

In 1987, Jordan Belfort procures a job as a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild,
employed under Mark Hanna, who quickly entices him with the sex- and drugs-fueled
stockbroker culture and teaches him that a stockbroker's only job is to make money for himself.
Jordan soon finds his career terminated following Black Monday and takes a job at a boiler room
brokerage firm on Long Island that specializes in penny stocks. Thanks to his aggressive pitching
style and the high commissions, Jordan makes a small fortune.

Jordan befriends his neighbor, Donnie Azoff, and the two found their own company. They
recruit several of Jordan's friends, whom Jordan trains in the art of the "hard sell". The basic
method of the firm is a pump and dump scam. To cloak this, Jordan gives the firm the
respectable-sounding name of Stratton Oakmont. After an expos in Forbes, hundreds of
ambitious young financiers flock to his company. Jordan becomes immensely successful and
slides into a decadent lifestyle full of prostitutes and drugs. He has an affair with a woman
named Naomi Lapaglia. When his wife finds out, they divorce, and he marries Naomi.
Meanwhile, the SEC and the FBI begin investigating Stratton Oakmont. Jordan illegally makes
$22 million in three hours upon securing the IPO of Steve Madden. This brings him and his firm
to the attention of the FBI. To hide his money, Jordan opens a Swiss bank account with corrupt
banker Jean-Jacques Saurel in the name of Naomi's Aunt Emma, who is a British national and
thus outside the reach of American authorities. He uses the wife and in-laws of his friend Brad
Bodnick, who have European passports, to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.
Donnie gets into a public brawl with Brad, and, while Donnie escapes, Brad is arrested. Jordan
also learns from his private investigator that the FBI is wiretapping his phones. Fearing for his
son, Jordan's father advises him to leave Stratton Oakmont and lie low while Jordan's lawyer
negotiates a deal to keep him out of prison. Jordan, however, cannot bear to quit and talks
himself into staying in the middle of his farewell speech. Jordan, Donnie, and their wives are on
a yacht trip to Italy when they learn that Aunt Emma has died of a heart attack. Jordan decides to
travel to Switzerland immediately to settle the bank account. In order to bypass border controls,
he forces his yacht captain to sail to Monaco, but the ship is capsized in a storm. After their
rescue, the plane sent to take them to Geneva is destroyed when a seagull flies into the engine.
Jordan takes this as a sign from God and decides to sober up.

Two years later, the FBI arrests Jordan because Saurel, arrested in Florida on an unrelated
charge, has also informed on Jordan. Since the evidence against him is overwhelming, Jordan
agrees to gather evidence on his colleagues in exchange for leniency. Fed up with Jordan's
lifestyle, Naomi tells Jordan she is divorcing him and wants full custody of their children. Jordan
loses his mind and tries to run off with Skylar in his car, but he ends up crashing in the driveway.
The next morning, Jordan wears a wire to work but slips a note to Donnie warning him. The FBI
discovers the note, and Jordan is arrested for breaching his cooperation deal. The FBI raids and
shuts down Stratton Oakmont. Despite this one breach, Jordan receives a reduced sentence for
his testimony and serves three years in a minimum-security prison. After his release, Jordan
makes a living hosting seminars on sales technique.

Ethical Issues

Ethics, as defined by Stanwick and Stanwick, are the values an individual use to interpret
whether any particular action or behavior is considered acceptable or appropriate. This can be
broken down further into the individual values (beliefs that a specific behavior is personally and
socially acceptable over opposite behaviors) and morals (the motives that lie behind behavior
based upon an individuals concept of what is right and what is wrong) (PSU WC, L. 14, P. 3).
Ethics, then, is a largely individual experience as different people will have different
interpretations about what may be acceptable or not that guide their choices. Groups though,
such as religions or social classes, may share similar opinions on what is agreeable or
disagreeable, forming social mentalities of what values or morals are appropriate (PSU WC, L.
14, P. 3). Business ethics are the collective values of a business organization that can be used to
evaluate whether the behavior of the collective members of the organization are considered
acceptable and appropriate. Business ethics ensure that a certain required level of trust exists
between consumers and various forms of market participants with businesses. For example, a
portfolio manager must give the same consideration to the portfolios of family members and
small individual investors. Such practices ensure that the public receives fair treatment.

The concept of business ethics arose in the 1960s as companies became more aware of a rising
consumer-based society that showed concerns regarding the environment, social causes and
corporate responsibility. Business ethics goes beyond just a moral code of right and wrong; it
attempts to reconcile what companies must do legally versus maintaining a competitive
advantage over other businesses. Firms display business ethics in several ways.

In The Wolf of Wall Street, the lead character Jordan Belfort is completely devoid of any real
time of ethical code. Where once he had been a somewhat humble, family man, the money he
acquired through his time on Wall Street slowly turned him into a reckless deviant. At the outset
of the film, Jordan is a married man with a wife he loves that feels let down when his job as a
broker is eliminated on the day he gains his license (Scorsese, 2013). All it takes though is a little
push before Belfort slides down the slope into anarchy. How did this occur though? There are
several potential reasons for how Belfort found himself in the position that he, arguably, seemed
happy in until it was too late.

One potential cause for Belforts downfall may have been (1) a flaw in his moral reasoning, the
process that is followed to help determine between ethical and unethical behaviors (PSU WC, L.
14, P. 4) (put scene minute and description here). Kohlberg (1981, as cited in PSU WC, L. 14, P.
4) theorized that the process of moral reasoning is based upon stages. There are three levels
(preconventional, conventional, and postconventional) and each level has two stages. At each
stage along the chain, the complexity of moral situations increases. Stage one, in the
preconventional level, is that bad behavior is behavior that is unacceptable and should be
punished (PSU WC, L. 14, P. 4). Its arguable that Belfort, at some point, regressed from an
advanced stage back to stage one. This may have happened when Belfort encountered Mark
Hanna, played by Matthew McConaughey. Belfort came from the suburbs with his family life
and encountered Hanna, a city living, rich broker who seemingly was rewarded for being an
alcoholic, drug abusing, womanizer. In an instant, Belforts world seemingly crashed around him
and his eyes were opened to the possibilities of his new world (Scorsese, 2013).

This downfall could also be potentially attributable to the conduct theories of ethical leadership.
The conduct theories focus on the behavior of individuals and the decision-making process that
lead up to the behavior The conduct theories focus, in part, on looking at the behavior or
conduct of a leader (PSU WC, L. 14, P. 6). After meeting Hanna, Belfort was given a
completely different look at what it meant to be a leader. This meeting came after working with
his first mentor at the brokerage firm, who belittle demeaned him. Jordan was clearly given a
false image of what a successful leader in the stock broker world was from the outset, after
Hanna showed that the reward for being deviant was wealth and power (Scorsese, 2013).

(2) Pump and Dump Scheme

Scene Steve Madden

(3) Hiding Money on an offshore account

Scene Switzerland

Ethical Theories

Individualism

The theory of individualism which was established by Milton Friedman states that the goal of a
business is to solely make a profit, in order to do that the obligation of a business person is to
maximize profit for the owner and the stockholders. Through the eyes of this theory Jordan
Belforts action would be considered unethical. Do to the charges pressed against the firm, its
partners, and the owner the company no longer exists so the obligation of maximizing a profit no
longer exists. Along with the company falling apart Belfort has to pay an amount of $110.4
million dollars in restitution which puts him at a dramatic loss compared to the income him and
his firm once accumulated.

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mills, one of the main backers of the utilitarianism theory, says that happiness and
pleasure are the only the things of inherent value and people should bring about these feelings
since it is something all people are capable of feeling. To help understand Utilitarianism it can
help to weigh the pros and cons of each of the main stake holders. In the case of Stratton
Oakmont the most important stake holder would be its clients. Stratton Oakmonts obligation to
their clients was to advise them into making smart financial decisions about what stocks to invest
in, in order to make a profit on their return. But, instead they advised people to invest in stocks
that they knew the company had accumulated shares and by purchasing the recommended stocks
the price of that stock would increase. So once the price was high enough Jordan and his partners
would sell the stock for a massive profit, leaving the people they were supposed to help, out
thousands of dollars. The next stakeholder would be the employees of Stratton Oakmont who did
benefit and gain happiness from the illegal activities of the firm and were able to make a good
deal of money from the work they were doing. But in the end this happiness that came from the
companies left these people without jobs due to the company is shut down, and some even
having criminal charges pressed against them. The final stakeholder would be Jordan Belfort
and his partners who lived a lavish life from millions of dollars there were making illegal or not
these men were certainly happy. But, now most are in prison or like Belfort paying back the
millions of dollars he took from people by being dishonest. So in the end what they did was
unethical because there actions led to their clients being unhappy form the fact they lost
thousands of dollars to dishonest people. Now the same dishonest people are suffering from the
hardship to which they brought onto the people they were hired to help. So in the end when
looking at this theory their actions were unethical and led to no one being able to say the
outcome brought happiness or pleasure.

Kantianism

The next theory was developed by Immanuel Kant which involved people having consistent
actions and think sensibly, but at the same time help other make those same rational decisions
and respect people differences and needs. This theory also states that these actions should be
motivated by goodwill, or doing what is right because it is right. What Belfort did with Stratton
Oakmont goes completely against this theory, instead of looking out for others and helping
people invest their money in a financially responsible and smart way Belfort tricked and
deceived these people. Instead he had them invest in stocks that he knew would crash and
destroy their investment and would benefit him dramatically financially to support his
extravagant life style. By doing this did he not only make irrational decisions he made the people
he employed make these same irrational decisions to help his company grow. He taught them to
do whatever it took to make money and even if it meant illegal activity and being untrustworthy
to the many clients they represented and advised. Belfort could have helped people invest their
money into stocks that could have brought great returns and taught his staff of over 1,000
employees to do the same but he didn't. He looked for his own best interest and people who
follow Kantianism would realize that the actions of Belfort and Oakmont Stratton were
unethical.

Virtue Theory

Finally we have the Virtue Theory which follows four characteristic that makes an action ethical
or unethical. These characteristics consist of courage, honesty, trust, and justice. Belforts actions
clearly show that he has not been courageous in the least bit he tricked and lied to people in order
to make his life better and made huge financial gains by taking from the wealth of others. The
courageous thing to do would have been to run a honest and well respected firm that prided
themselves on giving people smart financial advice on their investments and giving them a great
return on their money so that there future wouldn't ruined by financial setbacks in which he did
by acting unethically. When it comes to honesty and trust that were Belfort mad his biggest
ethical lapse again he tricked people lied to them about businesses saying that they were worth
investing in and would benefit them, knowing that they would eventually plummet and take
money out of honesty people pockets who may be trying to save for retirement, or their
childrens education. As far as justice which in these terms would be hard work, quality services,
good ideas, and fair practice it was nonexistent. Yes, Belfort worked hard at deceiving people
and making sure that this illegal money could not be traced by placing it in secret accounts he did
not work hard to benefit his clients. He gave them terrible advice and services which destroyed
some people financially. The only justice served is the fact that Belfort must pay back all of this
money in restitution in an amount of $110.4 million which again who know when that amount
will be paid back in full and all the time it takes to do so is taking months, days, and years away
from the people who could have been financially set today.

Now after going through the core theories of ethics, it is apparent that Jordan Belfort and
Oakmont Stratton cannot be considered a person or company that exhibits the values of each
theory. Oakmont Stratton is now out of business and does not maximize the profit of it
stakeholders. The company many have allowed the Belfort, his partners, and employees to full
potential of happiness for the time being, but there clients they advised absolutely did not.
Finally, Belfort and his employees were dishonest to their clients not allowing them to make
rational financial decisions while exhibiting qualities that oppose how an ethical company should
be run.
Ethical Issues The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Minute 1:15

Using dwarves for darts

Minute 2:55

First showing of drug usage and adult, confessed as a drug addict

Minute 4:00

Jordan Belfort claims that he took enough drugs to sedate New York, Manhattan and Queens for
a month daily.

Drug measure (Quaalude Back Pain), (Adderall Keep Focus), (Xanax To Sedate),
(Cocaine Wake Up), (Morphine - Because its awesome)

Most favourite drug Money

Jordan explain money does not only buy you a bit off stuff, but also make you a better person.

Minute 9:10

Jordan enters work at LF Rothschild, meets Mark Hana his supervisor. During lunch, Jordan
observe Mark taking drug in public at the restaurant. Mark explain that drugs at prostitute are
what keeps him on top of his performance. Mark also explain that they brokers job is to move the
clients money from their pocket into your own pocket.

Minute 10:10

Mark explain that the stock exchange is basically fraud not real.
Minute 12:45

Mark shows Jordan cocaine, he said that it is the key to perform better.

Minute 19:00

After the Black Monday on 19 October 1987 LF Rothschild went bankrupt. Jordan is left without
a job for a while. While browsing the classified with his wife he noticed an ad for a stock broker
position. He went to investors Centre in Long Island and met with the manager. He explain that
they are in the business of trading penny stocks, stock that are too small to be lifted on
NASDAQ. He mentions that the commission for every trade is 50, as opposed to just 1% Jordan
was receiving at Rothschild. This practice is questionable, but Jordan joins anyway.

Minute 26:00

Jordan meet Donnie Azolff, his neighbour at fourth floor. After Donnie quits his jobs and goes to
work with Jordan, they had sum lunch. After lunch, Donnie introduce Jordan to Crack, which
Pleasure Jordan a lot.

Minute 38:00

Acts of debauchery after working hours at Stratton Oakmont, alcohol at workplace, stippers, and
prostitution.

Minute 39:45

First attention by the FBI

Minute 44:02

Jordan and his cohorst discuss about playing darts using dwarves as the darts. Jordan asks what
happen to the company if the dwarves get hurt. One of them does not want to consider the
dwarves as human, but as an act (loop hole) to get them in the clear.

Minute 48:00

Jordan explain the use of prostitute in the office.

Minute 51:00

Jordan explain how Quaalude affects the body.

Minute 58:00

Jordan cheats with Naomi, even though he have a wife, and he briefly thinks not to do it.

Minute 60:00

Jordan get caught with Naomi by his wife. Three days after the confrontation, Jordan file for
divorces.

Minute 65:00

Jordan explain that he was making 50K a day through rat-hole, with his friend Brad being one of
them. Brad held stocks in his name. Jordan drives the price up, then Brad sell the stocks, then
gives back. Most of the profit to Jordan. The profits are not recorded, clearly illegal, but he does
it anyway.

Jordan hires Manny Riskin as the securities lawyers to oversee the SEC auditing, SEC
(Securities and Exchange Commission). They send two lawyers to review Stratton Oakmont
files. Jordan put them in the conference room and bugged it.

Minute 66:15

Jordan explain on IPO, on which the stock of a company is offered for the first time on general
population. Jordan explain that Stratton Oakmont is the first company to represent Steve
Maddens (IPO) and set the price of the stock. Then they sell back to their friends. It is illegal, but
he does it anyway because it nets them a huge profit that they dont know what to do with it.

Minute 79:00

Jordan Confessed that day with Donnie, they had 85% share of the stocks, secretly it is illegal,
but they did it because it is going to make them more profit (more money).

Minute 87:20

Jordan haves dinner with his P.I. His P.I make a deal with the justice dept, so that the dept.
ignore him. Jordan suggest that he bribes the FBI, but his P.I warns him not do as doing to will
get him into a lot of trouble and he might lose his P.I license. Also he sad warns Jordan not to
spent with the FBI personally, as they can use his words against him.

Minute 90:00

He does it anyway. Jordan invites Patrick Denhom, FBI agent on his yacht for a discussion on
his investigation. Jordan starts his specch and tries do bribe Agent Denham covertly. Agent
Denham sees this and asks for Jordan to repeat it again, sentence by sentence Jordan refuse, and
asks them do leave.

Minute 98:00

Jordan devises a plan to hide his money in a bank in Switzerland. Cue more drug consuming, as
Jordan describes the stages of Qualude binge before his flight to Switzerland. They will make
arrangements for the money transfer. Jean Jacques is corrupt.

Minute 103:00

Jordan asks about the bank secrecy laws. Jean Jacques explains that the only way the bank will
cooperate with a foreign legal party is if the crime committed is also a crime in Switzerland, Jean
also said that there are very few laws in Switzerland regarding in Jordans financial activities.
basicallyJordan is in financial heaven. Stack fraud however, is a crime in swiss Jean said that
they will corperate, uless the account raise is not under the suspects none such as an account
under the name of friends, releasing and such.

Minute 106:00

Jordan goes to London and meets Aunt Emma to discuss about his financial misconcts. Aunt
Emma agrees to Jordans plan. (which is unethical).

Minute 110:00

Donnie introduces Jordan to Lemmo a drug that has been stoned since 1981(15 years) Lemonan
is three times as powerful than a Qualuude. Jordan prepare himself for the event. The Lemmon
takes time to effect though, and Jordan pops 3 more.

Minute 120:00
Jordans PI calls Jordan and wams him to contact him through a pay phone. Once there, Bo Dietl
says that Jordans phone is bugged and Brad is in jail. That is when Lemmon kicks in. Jordan
goes into a cerebral pulsy phase as the drug takes central of his body. Jordan crawls back into his
car. He struggles back to his house, discovering that Donnie has been talkers to Jean over the
phone. A struggle ensures, negulting Donnie to choke on him. Jordan goes to the rescue by
ingesting cocaine to wake him up and perfomes CPR to Donnie.

Minute 129:00

Jordans securities lawyer, Manny advises Jordan to step down from stators and the financial
industry altogether. Manny offers to set up a deal with the SEC so that Jordan can get reduction
in sentence. This means that Jordan pleads guilty to a few security violation, and other financial
misconducts. In exchange for a few million dollars in fine and the SEC to leave him alone.
Stratton will be managed by Donnie. The FBI however will still pursue Jordan stepping down
subtainly, they will be forced to stop the investigations. His father also recommends this and asks
whether Jordan wants to spend time in jail. Jordan seemingly agrees with the suggestion.

Minute 131:00

Jordan makes a farewell speech in front of his staff. By the end of the speech however, Jordan
backtracks on his decision, saying that he held on to his words, which is never to take no for
answer. By stepping down, he becomes a hypocrite because him leaving the industry means they
he takes a no for an answer.

Minute 138:00

The FBI sends serpinas to strattan, demand by them to produce documents. Jordan and his
cohorts ignore it in a sign of defiance. Eventually they were brought in for questionnaire, but
they denied everything.

Minute 142:00
Whhile vacatroning in Italy (which they were not approved to do), Jordan received news that
Aunt Emma that died from heart attack. This leaves the 20 million hanging in the swiss bank.
Jordan calls Jean, who informed Jordan that Aunt Emma named Jordan as her successor. Sean
also sets up a meeting with a Forger that can force Aunt Emmas signature. The situation calls
for Jordan to be in Switzerland by the next day. To complete the transfer. He also objects
naomis decicion to go to her aunts funeral in London, as the money is more important.

Minute 145:00

Enroute to Monaco, the yacht encounter heavy storm. Jordan tells Donnie to get the luude as he
does not want to die sober. The yacht eventually capsized when hit by a huge wake. Fortunately,
they were saved by the Italian Navy. After witnessing the set that the sent to pick them up
exploded when a sea gull flew into the engines he takes it as a sign from God to give up and
correct his ways.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont,
became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper
who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office
on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a
story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent.

Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing
into a wickedly lucrative game as Belforts hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into
stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profitsfor the house. But an insatiable appetite
for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named
Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his
own.

From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household
that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden
cameras everywhereeven as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on themto the unbridled hedonism of
his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian
ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down . . .
Views/Arguments
My first reaction upon viewing Martin Scorseses new film, The Wolf of Wall Street, was how
closely it resembled Goodfellas, Scorseses masterful account of mob informant Henry Hills life
in organized crime. Like that historical snapshot of the American Dream colorfully run off the
rails, the more recent film tracks the wanton greed and excessive personal behaviors of Jordan
Belfort (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) during the 1990s. Belfort made tens of millions of dollars
selling penny stocks and manipulating the stock market through his firm, Stratton Oakmont,
before being convicted of securities fraud and money laundering.

The Goodfellas parallel, in particular, urges Scorseses current production to be viewed as a

cautionary tale of unbridled Capitalism. But what else the film says specifically about Wall
Street or contemporary business and markets is less clear cut. In a characteristically incisive New
York Times column, Joe Nocera asks exactly that question about the films larger message about
business. Commenting on Scorseses relentless preoccupation with his protagonists sexual
obsessions and drug use (rather than, say, the specifics of Belforts fraudulent trading activities),
Nocera concludes that, to use Stratton Oakmont to represent Wall Street doesnt begin to get at
Wall Streets sins."
At the same time, Noceras question touches on the more fundamental question of how we tell
meaningful stories about specific businesses or business activities. In ways similar to the film's
preoccupation with the dissipated indulgences of DiCaprios Belfort, we tend to focus on
individual leaders and their actions. Consider a few of the prevailing narratives of business today:
the visionary entrepreneur, the rapacious exploiter, or the small businessman at the heart of the
economy. Some corporations do acquire a collective identity that shapes their stories Enron as
the hubristic smartest guys in the room or Goldman Sachs as a great vampire squid." But
companies that take on such depictions are exceptions.

In Hollywood and the wider public imagination, alike, our tendency is to simplify and dramatize
the activities of business such as stock trading. At one point in The Wolf of Wall Streets
occasional voiceover, DiCaprios Belfort begins to describe the specifics of his trading activities
only to acknowledge they dont really matter to the audience. So he stops. Moreover, any
connection in the film between Stratton Oakmonts actual dealings in the 1990s and the ethics of
big Wall Street firms early trafficking of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) becomes
speculative, at best, as the films story increasingly dwells on Belforts own spiraling out of
control. The complexity of such activities and any ethical or legal claims to be made about them,
much like the operations of other financial entities such as hedge funds or private equity firms,
make them difficult (if not impossible) to render meaningfully in dramatic stories. It should give
us pause in considering how we characterize the activities of our own businesses in the stories we
tell of them.
Formal business education regularly engages the challenge of telling business stories. The case
method is the most common approach used to closely analyze firms, their constituent units and
leaders. Cases are structured in many different ways but nearly all rely on carefully drawn
narratives: decision-making cases. Harvard Business cases often go so far as to intentionally
scramble the elements of business narratives in order for students to have to make sense of them.
Dexterous re-construction of the full story becomes the touchstone for analysis and learning
while also modeling the valuable skill of producing coherent stories from the disparate facts and
other pieces of information we find in everyday life.

More broadly, the stories of business organizations that circulate externally help shape the wider
understanding of those organizations (regardless of their accuracy). Marketers rely on narratives
to construct and differentiate the status of a company, its product or brand. As media and
entertainment mogul Peter Guber makes clear in his bestselling book "Tell to Win," the value of
stories is the emotional transportation they offer customers or clients. That transportation may
lead to very different ends, of escape or transformation or even-self discovery, but it is ultimately
borne on the wings of compelling stories that touch our hearts as customers, partners, or
collaborators.

Internal to businesses, narratives, what some call organizational scripts, can spell out the
distinctive and locally appropriate behaviors needed in various situations. Some of these are
origin stories, of founders decisions or critical events, while others capture the defining ways
the business organizations manage change, solve problems or otherwise collectively behave. Still
other stories are aspirational and define the organization according to the future it envisions (for
example, in Google GOOG +0.21%s case, having all the worlds information organized). In fact,
the most influential organizational stories are often those that describe where individual workers
want to go together and how they aim to get there.

At the center of such scripting and storytelling are leaders. In their "Animal Spirits", which argues
that humans are hard-wired to organize information and experience into narratives, Nobel
Laureates George Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller noted that, Great leaders are foremost creators of
stories. Creators, yes, but also evangelists, translators, exemplars and finally guardians of the
organizational DNA organized into and relayed through stories.
Like all genetic influences, however, the core elements of given stories of organizations and
business activities only go so far in shaping their eventual impact. Ever-changing environmental
dynamics, say, of shifting markets, require that stories be continually refined. In his conclusion to
"The Leaders Guide to Storytelling," Stephen Denning makes the crucial point that narrative
elements and techniques should ultimately serve as the basis of connection and communication
with employees and customers. Rather than being self-contained and complete, in other words,
stories should convey essential truths about the business they describe while still having rough
edges and opening out to continuing interaction. Although that doesnt necessarily work in
Hollywoods scripts and productions, such openness and adaptability in meaningful storytelling
about organizations and business activities are among the paramount responsibilities and most
powerful opportunities of real leadership.
Based on the true story of a man's (Leonardo DiCaprio) rise as a Wall Street stock broker and his
ultimate crash when consumed by greed and corruption. Also with Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie,
Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau, Joanna Lumley,
Cristin Milioti and Christine Ebersole. Directed by Martin Scorsese. [3:00]

SEX/NUDITY 10 - A man masturbates while looking at a woman in the middle of a crowded party
(we see his erect penis) and his wife hits him and pushes him to the floor.
A married man takes a woman to her apartment; she opens her bedroom doors and stands before
him fully nude (her bare breasts, abdomen, genital area and legs are visible); they have sex and he
hear grunting and see their lower legs and feet as he climaxes. A man and a woman have sex and
we see him thrusting on top of her (her bare breasts, genital area and buttocks are visible while his
bare buttocks, back and legs are visible). A man thrusts into a woman while in a restroom (we see
her bare buttocks). We see many men having sex in various positions and various states of undress
(bare chests, abdomens, bare buttocks and legs are seen).
A man thrusts into a woman while other people watch at an office party (we see her bare breasts
and she is described as a prostitute). A woman thrusts on top of a man and her bare breasts are
visible. A man and a woman have sex and we see thrusting (his bare back and buttocks are shown
and her bare legs and shoulders are seen). A man thrusts on top of a woman (we see her bare thigh
and his bare buttock and back) and she says, "I hate you, get off me" but she allows him to continue
and climax and then asks for a divorce. A man is shown thrusting into a woman from behind while
she performs oral sex on another man (we see her bare breasts and side of her buttock. A man
thrusts on a woman while kissing another woman. Three fully nude women (bare breasts,
abdomens, buttocks, genital areas are shown) kiss and caress a man lying on a table while a crowd
watching chants.
A man is shown nude and lying on his stomach on a table while a woman straddles his bare
buttocks and places a burning a candle in his anus; the woman then drips hot wax on his back and
he yells. A woman performs oral sex on a man in a glass elevator and other people watch and cheer
from outside (no nudity is shown but we see the woman's head bobbing rhythmically).
A woman is shown on her hands and knees with a man kneeling behind her; the man blows
cocaine into her anus and smacks her bare buttocks (we see the man's bare chest and the woman's
bare back and buttocks and sex is implied). A woman performs oral sex on a man while he is
driving a car (we see her head bobbing up and down in his lap). Men and women in various states
of undress are shown kissing and fondling during an office party (the bare breasts and buttocks of
the women are seen and the men reveal bare chests and abdomens), and a man offers two women
wearing bikinis (cleavage, bare abdomens and legs are seen) to two other men (they turn down the
offer). A bare-chested man lies in a bed smoking and a fully nude woman gets in bed with him
(bare buttocks, breasts and genital area are seen). A wife tells her husband that she is tired of
wearing panties and spreads her legs to reveal her genital area to him and he reaches for her, but
she says no and she stimulates herself to punish him for his infidelity. Men and women wearing
underwear (the bare chests, abdomens and legs of the men are seen and the cleavage, bare
abdomens, legs and buttocks of the women are seen) march through an office party playing musical
instruments and followed by strippers (their bare breasts, buttocks, abdomens and legs are seen).
A man wonders if an older woman is hitting on him; the woman wonders if the younger man is
trying to hit on her and when he leans over to kiss her, she pulls away and reminds him of his wife.
We see women dancing in a strip club (their bare buttocks, abdomens and thong covered crotches
are shown) and one woman is shown caressing a man's clothed chest while kissing him on the
cheek and neck. A man gabs a woman's clothed breasts in a couple of scenes (different women).
A man tells another man that he wants to perform oral sex on him during a business presentation
(he does not do so).
Two men watch a CCTV video of a wife showing her genital area to her husband (we see her
bare legs to the hip and her hand covers her genital area). A man comes out of a stall and we see
him tucking in his shirt (no nudity is visible). A man is shown shirtless and we see his bare chest
and abdomen. Women and men wear swimsuits at a pool party (cleavage, bare abdomens, backs
and legs are seen). A woman's short skirt rises up and reveals her stocking tops and bare thighs (a
man is aroused by the sight). Women wear low-cut dresses that reveal cleavage in several scenes.
A man is shown bare-chested while sleeping.
A man making a sale on the telephone gestures that he is penetrating the man on the phone
when his closes the deal. A man tells another man that he will perform oral sex on him "for free."
A man talks about having sex with prostitutes. A man talks to another man about doing cocaine
and having sex with prostitutes. A man talks about how often he masturbates to remain relaxed. A
man talks about "Hustler" magazine as a "nudie magazine." A man says of a woman, "She was
hot." A man talks about marrying his first cousin so that no one else would have sex with her. A
man teases a teen boy about whether or not he has sex and the boy is embarrassed and leaves. A
man says that "all nuns are lesbians." A man talks about a woman getting "breast implants." A
woman refers to a "testosterone free zone." A man talks to his father about sex and how things
have changed since his father's day; he describes that women are all shaved now (referring to their
pubic hair). A man makes a remark about the size of a woman's breasts. A man makes a crude
sexual remark to an FBI agent about licking caviar off a part of his anatomy. A man admits being
a sex addict. A man asks another man, "Are you trying to kiss me?" A man proposes marriage to
a woman and she accepts.
A man caresses another man's head in order to calm him down.

VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man punches another man in the face three times and we see blood spray
from his nose; two men hold him over a balcony and threaten to drop him. A man argues with
another man and one man punches the other. A man tackles another man to the ground. A wife
yells at and hits her husband after catching him with another woman. A wife throws water in her
husband's face several times and they yell at each other. A man grabs another man's hair piece and
he complains, and two intoxicated men fight and they struggle over a telephone; they fall on the
floor and end up wrapped in the cord. We hear that a man was depressed and killed himself and
we see him lying in a bathtub filled with bloody water and there is blood on his arm and the floor
around the tub. A man chokes on food and falls to the floor breaking a glass top table on the way
down; another man pushes on the first man's chest and he spits out the food onto the other man's
face.
A husband and his wife argue bitterly, she hits him in the face and he hits her back; he then
punches her in the stomach and leaves her lying on the floor while he goes to take his young
daughter out of her bed; he puts the child in a car and drives in reverse slamming into a brick pillar
(the child is not injured and the man has a bloody cut on his forehead).
We hear that a seagull few into the engine of a plane and we see it explode mid-air. We see a
yacht sailing in heavy seas; a helicopter on the top of the yacht slides off and into the waves, waves
crash through the windows and two men and two women are rescued.
A man tears up a sofa cushion and pulls out bags of cocaine that he snorts. A man drives under
the influence and he swerves on the road (we see his car later and it is a crumpled mess). A very
intoxicated man flies a helicopter and nearly crashes it in his back yard. After smoking crack a
man grabs another man and tells him, "Let's run." A very intoxicated man falls into a swimming
pool, fully clothed. Two men take a bunch of pills thinking that they might have lost their potency
and we see them very intoxicated (one man appears unable to walk and drags himself down the
stairs). Police officers hold guns on a man and arrest him for driving under the influence.
Many men and women yell over the telephone in many scenes while selling stocks. A man yells
at an employee. A man talks about eviscerating enemies. Two men pound on their chests and hum
a chant a few times in a restaurant. A woman yells at men hounding another man and wanting to
work for him. A man yells at other men in a few scenes. An FBI agent tells a man that he will seize
his boat. A man says, "I wanna kill myself." We hear that a woman died of a heart attack. We hear
about Black Monday and the Stock Market Crash. A man talks about marrying his first cousin and
another man asks if he is concerned about having children with mental retardation issues. A man
makes a joke about what he would do if he had a mentally handicapped child and that he would
take the child to the country and "Let it free." A man refers to an "Act of debauchery."
An FBI agent takes target practice. We see a man having a wire attached to his chest (part of
his bare chest is seen). We see a small person dressed in a Velcro covered suit being thrown by
men and sticking to a target while many other people cheer. A man is shown being arrested along
with several other men and we see him wearing an ankle bracelet locator.
A man sticks his fingers down his throat and vomits (we hear gagging) and then does an enema
(we do not see vomit). A man shaves a woman's head while seated in front of a room full of
colleagues at a party. A man eats another man's live gold fish and fires him. A man urinates in a
trash can (we see the urine stream) and kicks it onto the floor (people react as if they have been
splashed). A man flicks a lit cigarette in another man's face.
PROFANITY 10 - Over 414 F-words and its derivatives, 11 obscene hand gesture, 20 sexual
references, 2 sexual gestures, 82 scatological terms, 53 anatomical terms, 13 mild obscenities, 5
derogatory terms for gay people, 2 derogatory terms for African-Americans, name-calling (midget,
lower than pond scum, nitwits, degenerates, fugazee, greed fest, cheap, schmucks, twisted Robin
Hood, ugly wife, stupid, pin-head, rat, retards, mutt, knuckle heads, crazy, obscene, depraved, little
man, superficial, materialistic, lazy, hookers, "fat girl shoe," sharks, Mad Max, piece of
[scatological term deleted] hairpiece, schnooks, irresponsible, old decrepit, idiot, sweetheart, ),
exclamations (heck, ), 6 religious profanities (GD), 32 religious exclamations (e.g. God, Jesus
Christ, For Christ's Sake Christ Sake, Under God's Blue Heaven, Holy [scatological term deleted],
Thank God, Oh My God, God Help Me, Oh God, God Bless You ). [profanity glossary]

SUBSTANCE USE - A man snorts cocaine in many scenes throughout the movie, a man snorts
cocaine at a restaurant, a man blows cocaine into a woman's anus (please see the Sex/Nudity
category for more details), a man tears up a sofa cushion and pulls out bags of cocaine that he
snorts, a man snorts cocaine off a woman's cleavage in the back of a limousine, people snort
cocaine at a party, two men take a bunch of pills thinking that they might have lost their potency,
two men snort cocaine and drink Bloody Marys, a man pours cocaine on his nose and inhales
deeply, a man takes a pill, men play a game with Quaaludes and alcohol and they all appear
intoxicated, two men smoke crack in the back of a restaurant and they act intoxicated, a man takes
Quaaludes, a man is shown selling drugs in several scenes and he is referred to as selling "ludes,"
a man says that he "loves drugs," a man talks about using all kinds of drugs (Quaaludes, Xanax,
pot, cocaine, morphine), a man talks to another man about doing cocaine and having sex with
prostitutes, a man talks about mainlining adrenaline, and a man admits being a drug addict. A man
orders several Martinis at a restaurant for himself and another man for lunch, two men are shown
in a bar where people are seen drinking and one of the men smokes a cigarette, people are shown
drinking alcohol at a pool party, people drink alcohol at a reception, a man opens a bottle of
champagne, people drink alcohol in a restaurant, a man drinks a beer, and people drink wine on a
yacht. A woman smokes a cigarette in an office, a man smokes a cigarette in an office, two men
smoke in an office, and a man smokes in bed.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Wall Street, investing in the stock market, trust, stability, publicity,
gossip, debauchery, integrity, opportunity, influence, Grenada, SEC, contempt, loyalty, laundering
money, bribery, greed, betrayal, trend setters, addiction, hope, white collar crime, drug addiction,
infidelity, marrying your cousin, IPOs.