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Chapter Iii Discussion CHAPTER III DISCUSSION 3.1. Summary of The Movie 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 careless sex and drugs fueled stockbroker culture and passes on his idea that a stockbroker's only goal 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 with 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 exposé in Forbes, hundreds of ambitious young financiers flock to his company. Jordan becomes immensely successful and slides into a decadent lifestyle of prostitutes and drugs. He has an affair with a woman named Naomi Lapaglia. When his wife finds out, Jordan divorces her and 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 further 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. 17 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. Brad does not say a word about Donnie or Jordan to the police. Jordan 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. To bypass border controls, he orders 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 informed the FBI on Jordan. Since the evidence against him is overwhelming, Jordan agrees to gather evidence on his colleagues in exchange for leniency. Naomi tells Jordan she is divorcing him and wants full custody of their children. They get into a full-fledged argument and he tries to get into his car with his daughter but crashes into a brick pillar while pulling out of the garage. The next morning, Jordan wears a wire to work but slips a note to Donnie warning him. Donnie keeps the note and rats out Jordan to the FBI. Jordan is arrested for breaching his co-operation deal. The FBI raids and shuts down Stratton Oakmont. Despite the breach, Jordan receives a reduced sentence of 36 months in a minimum-security 18 prison for his testimony and would be released after serving 22 months. After his release, Jordan makes a living hosting seminar on sales technique. 3.2 Analysis of the Story In this part, the writer will discuss types, impact, and factors of Hedonism that can be found in main characters in the movie. 3.2.1 Factor of Hedonism As the writer talked before in chapter II, there are several factors of Hedonism. According (Sharma, Jore, & Khanna, 2008) state that: “hedonist is influenced by factors such as values, culture, social class, reference group, family, and individual characteristics such as motives, emotions and personality.” In this analysis the writer can found factor hedonism; reference group and personality through The Wolf Of Wall Street Movie. 1. Reference group Datum 1 Figure III.1. Jordan talking with Hanna 19 Supporting dialogue: Jordan : “Mr. Hanna, how you’re able to drugs during the day and the still function, still do your job?” Hanna : “How else would you do this job, cocaine and woman is my friend” Jordan : “Right, well I got to say, I‟m incredibly excited to be a part of your firm. I mean I’m salute to you” (Office canteen, 09:00-09:15) In this scene, Jordan just started work as a stockbroker. He was still honest and innocent. At the beginning he worked he was angry with his office friends because Jordan was still innocent. Until one day he met Hanna, one of the seniors in the office. When he arrived at work breaks Jordan and Hanna talked about shares and from here Jordan began to be affected by Hanna's thoughts. This scene showed factor hedonism, suitable with Sharma, Jore, and Khanna statement which tells hedonist is influenced by factors such as values, culture, social class, reference group and family. This scene take part from reference group influences Hedonism of Jordan. From this scene the writer thinks Jordan easily affected by references group, reflected with the statement “How you‟re able to drugs and still do your job?” which of these sentences indicates Jordan began to be interested in Hanna's thoughts, and statement “I‟m salute of you” Jordan think that the action was true and Jordan was inspired by Hanna. 20 Datum2 Figure III.2 Jordan and Donnie watching TV Supporting dialogue: Donnie : “Jordan, I have surprise for you” Jordan : “What’s that?” Donnie : “It’s a drug.” Jordan : “Oh my god you are crazy” Donnie : “Let’s party” Jordan : “Ok, but just once” (Jordan House, 01:55:10-01:55:20) In this scene, at first Donnie got into trouble because he was involved in a case which resulted in his friend being imprisoned, finally he was confused and decided to be jazzed. But here he is not alone, he offered his friend, Jordan. This scene showed factor hedonism, suitable with Sharma, Jore, and Khanna statement which tells hedonist is influenced by factors such as values, culture, social class, reference group and family. This scene take part from reference group influences Hedonism of Jordan 21 From this scene the writer thinks Jordan easily affected by references group reflected with statement Jordan “Ok, but just once” when Donnie offer drugs from him and Jordan began interest with drugs after knowing the pleasure. 2. Individual Characteristic (Personality) Datum 1 Figure III.3 Jordan walk down the stairs Supporting dialogue: Jordan : “Yup, on a daily basis I consume enough drugs, to sedate Manhattan, Long island an Queen for a month. I take Quaaludes 10 to 15 a day for my “back pain,” adder all to stay focused, Xanax to take edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to make me back up again and morphine, well, because it’s awesome.” (House, 03:55-04:21) In this scene Jordan came out of his room on the second floor wearing office clothes while holding a glass of orange juice, Jordan down the stairs and boarding his limousine to go to the office. This scene showed factor hedonism, suitable with Sharma, Jore, and Khanna statement which tells hedonist is influenced by individual characteristics such as 22 motives, emotions and personality. This scene take part from personality influences Hedonism of Jordan. From this scene the writer think Jordan show the personality, reflected by Jordan statement “ Daily basis I consume enough drugs” which tells the daily activities consume drugs and Jordan statement “because it awesome” showing him feels proud of it. Datum 2 Figure III.4 Jordan started his career at the new office Supporting dialogue: Jordan : “Just like that I make two thousand dollars, the other guys looked at me like I‟d just discovered five. I was selling garbage to garbage man and making cash hand over fist. The only problem you‟re gonna have is that you didn‟t buy more. So I was selling them shit. But the way I looked at it their money was better off in my pocket.” (New Office, 21:32-21:53) In this scene Jordan started his career in the new stock office and managed to make substantial money among his friends. Jordan works at this office because the office that previously went bankrupt. 23 This scene showed factor hedonism, suitable with Sharma, Jore, and Khanna statement which tells hedonist is influenced by individual characteristics such as motives, emotions and personality. This scene take part from personality influences Hedonism of Jordan. From this scene the writer think Jordan show the personality, reflected by Jordan statement “so I was selling the shit, their money was better off in my pocket” from this sentence explains that Jordan does various ways including lying to his customers to get as much money as possible. 3.2.2 Types of Hedonism The writer uses the theory in Chapter II to identify the type of hedonism of main characters, There are few theory from experts that explain the types of hedonism.
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