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Yeah Marty really did us a disservice with making Belfort look so "good", I mean at least in Goodfellas at least Marty makes Henry Hill look like the coke addicted scumbag he was, Wolf of Wall Street was more like the My Blue Heaven version of Henry Hill's life.
Now we get every idiot who becomes a stock broker or on r/wallstreetbets or r/superstonk thinking they're going to he the next Jordan Belfort thanks to The Wolf of Wall Street, and they might not actually be wrong since the SEC and FEC both seem feckless and toothless.