Daily Dialogue — June 21, 2014

Mark Hanna: Nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a Fugazi is?”
Jordan Belfort: Fugazi, it’s a fake.
Mark Hanna: Fugazi, Fugazi. It’s a wazy. It’s a woozie. It’s fairy dust.

— The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), screenplay by Terence Winter, book by Jordan Belfort

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: 1st day on the job, suggested by Bretton Zinger. Today’s suggestion by Jon Raymond.

Trivia: Matthew McConaughey’s scenes were shot on the second week of filming. The chest beating and humming performed by him was improvised and actually a warming up ritual that he performs before acting. When Leonardo DiCaprio saw it while filming, the brief shot of him looking away uneasily from the camera was actually him looking at Martin Scorsese for approval. DiCaprio encouraged them to include it in their scene and later claimed it “set the tone” for the rest of the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A first day on the job can be very much a Fish Out Of Water experience and boy, is that highlighted in Jordan Belfort’s initiation to Wall Street, especially as articulated by Mark Hanna’s character. 

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