Cinema, Literature, Theater, Music, Art.

To compare the three products, movie, book, screenplay... When Teresa, Belfort's first wife, points out a want ad in a paper for a stockbroker, Scorsese visualizes it through a series of close up of the want ads; our eyes are led from ad to ad until we're glued to an extreme close up of the ad Teresa's seen. In the screenplay the phrase is: Sequence is also reinterpreted.  While the book tends to move - more or less - linearly, things aren't nearly as chronological in the screenplay and book.  And yet the leaps in time appear to - paradoxically - make the film feel more like the book's sequencing.  Example: Very early on, in chapter 2 in the book, shows the Duchess hurling water at Belfort for womanizing. In the screenplay, however, it's scene 116 located on page 58 (about an hour into the action), and in the film it's situated even later.  Absent from the screenplay and the film is the ensuing, more involved Steve Madden chapter. ...