The Wolf of Wall Street Page #13

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Steve clears his throat, looks over at Jordan -- he’s

terrified. Jordan motions for him to calm down.

STEVE MADDEN:

I uh, I'd like to start by tellingyou about my background in theshoe industry.

ANOTHER BROKER:

Nice f***ing hat!

STEVE MADDEN:

I uh... first started working inthe shoe industry, in a shoe

store. When I was sixteen, myfriends were out chasing girls,

but I was learning about women'sshoes.

KALIL PETER DEBLASIO

Move the mike closer. We can’t f***ing hear you! *

He moves the mic; feedback SCREECHES through the bullpen.

STEVE MADDEN (CONT’D)

Sorry... Anyway, my first jobwas at a shoe store like I said

where I worked in the stockroom.

You know, I can honestly say I’vebeen a lover of women's shoes

since I was twelve-

BROKER #4

Freak!

STEVE MADDEN:

No. Heh-heh. Not like that.

I mean somehow I became fascinated

with the endless designpossibilities for women's shoes-

BROKER #5 BROKER #6

Queer! Get a f***ing life!

Boos, hisses. Steve looks at Jordan, who motions for him

to speed up. He grabs a shoe from one of the boxes.

STEVE MADDEN (CONT’D)

This shoe -- the Mary Lou -- isthe one that really put me on the

map. It’s a black patent leathervariation of the Mary Jane, but-

SPLAT! A half-eaten grapefruit lands at Steve’s feet.

In a flash, Jordan rushes over, grabs the mic-

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JORDAN:

All right, let's hear it for SteveMadden and the wonderful Mary Lou!

Huge applause, with stomping feet; howling, etc.

JORDAN (CONT’D)

Okay, now that you got that out

of your system, I want you to know

why Steve is so completely off the

f***ing wall... It’s because this

man is a creative genius. Steve's

power, his gift -- is that he

creates trends. Artists like

Steve come along once a century!

Elvis! Andy Warhol! Giorgio

Armani! Who knows how high this

stock could go? The 20s? The

50s? The 80s?

Applause; war whoops. Jordan motions for quiet.

JORDAN (CONT’D)

I want everybody to look down.

See that little black box in front

of you? It's called a telephone.

Now I'm gonna let you in on a

little secret about this

telephone -- it won't dial itself!

That’s right -- until you take

some action, it's nothing more

than a worthless hunk of plastic,

like a loaded M16 without a

trained Marine to pull the

trigger. And in the case of the

telephone, it's the action of you,

a highly trained Strattonite, a

killer who will not take no for an

answer! A person who will not

hang up the phone until his client

either buys or f***ing dies!

The Brokers go crazy. Jordan looks around.

JORDAN (CONT’D)

I don't care if you graduated from

Harvard or Bumfuck University or

never got past fourth f***ing

grade! That phone is the great

equalizer!

(pause; looks around)

There is no nobility in poverty.

I've been rich, and I've been poor

and I choose rich every time.

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JORDAN (CONT’D)

At least as a rich man, when I

have to face my problems, I showup in the back of a limo wearing a$2000 suit and $40,000 gold watch!

JORDAN (CONT’D)

At least as a rich man, when I

have to face my problems, I showup in the back of a limo wearing a$2000 suit and $40,000 gold watch!

Jordan takes off his GOLD WATCH, flings it to the Crowd.

Brokers go nuts, fighting over it like a home-run ball.

JORDAN (CONT’D)

And if anyone here thinks I'm

crazy, get the f*** out and get a

job at McDonald’s, because that's

where you f***ing belong! But

before you depart this room full

of winners, I want you to take a

good look at the person next to

you, because one day in the not-so

distant future, you'll be sitting

at a red light in your beat-up old

Pinto, and that person’s gonna

pull up in a brand new Porsche,

with their gorgeous young wife at

their side. And who will you be

next to? Some ugly beast with

three days of razor-stubble in a

sleeveless moo-moo, crammed in

next to you with a carload of

groceries from the f***ing Price

Club!

He scans the Brokers; they’re on the edge of their seats.

JORDAN (CONT’D)

So you listen to me and listen

carefully. Are you behind on your

credit card bills? Good. Pick up

the phone and start dialing. Is

your landlord threatening to evict

you? Good. Pick up the phone and

start dialing. Does your

girlfriend think you're a f***ing

loser? Pick up the phone and

start f***ing dialing! I want

you to deal with your problems by

becoming rich! I want you to go

out and spend money! Leverage

yourself, back yourself into a

corner, let the consequences of

failure become so f***ing

unthinkable that you'll have no

choice but to do whatever it takes

to win!

The Brokers go absolutely APESHIT.

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JORDAN (CONT’D)

You have an obligation here,

people! To your clients! To this

firm! An obligation to yourself,

godammit! You ram Steve Madden

stock down your clients’ throatsand make them choke on it till

they buy 20,000 shares! Be

aggressive! Be ferocious! Be

telephone f***ing terrorists!!

Before Jordan is even finished, the Brokers GO BERSERK,

some already dialing their phones.

JORDAN (V.O.) (CONT’D)

At 1 p.m. we opened the stock forsale at $4.50 a share. By 1:03it was over eighteen dollars.

130A INT. FBI OFFICES - MANHATTAN - DAY 130A

Agent Denham exits the elevator, arriving for work. He

strides between cubicles, briefcase in hand. He enters -130B

INT. AGENT DENHAM’S OFFICE - DAY 130B

-- where pinned up on one wall is a massive chart onStratton’s operations: pictures of Jordan, Donnie andothers, a hierarchy, a history, an investigation...

131 INT. STRATTON OAKMONT III - BULLPEN - LATER (FEB ‘95)

Total sales frenzy. The CAMERA PANS the 300 Brokers, who

work the phones like mad.

SEA OTTER:

--the hottest new issue on

Wall Street!

YOUNG BROKER:

--up two dollars while I’mtalking to you!

And as we continue PANNING the room...

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JORDAN (V.O.)

Of course I couldn’t have done

this without help. I’d leaked the

word on Wall Street that Stratton

was a buyer up until twenty. So

not only were we pushing Madden,

all the big firms were too.

We continue PANNING the frenzied Brokers...

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JORDAN (V.O.)

As long as they knew I’d buy theshares back at the top of themarket, they’d drive the priceup as high as I f***ing wanted.

132 SCENES 132 - 133 OMITTED 132

134 INT. JORDAN’S OFFICE - DAY (FEB ‘95) 134

Donnie pours champagne nearby, oblivious to Jordan, whosits at his desk, speaking directly to camera:

JORDAN:

Of the two million shares being

offered for sale, a million

belonged to me, held in phony

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