Forbes Profiles Jordan Belfort, Explained：hatchet job

What's really going on

The scene is about the gap between what the Forbes piece says and what Jordan decides it says. The article is unkind — Robin Hood in reverse, a wolf, a cult of young brokers — and any ordinary man would treat it as damage. Jordan does the opposite: he reads it as advertising. "There is no such thing as bad publicity, sweetheart", he tells his wife, and the film immediately proves him right, as recruits line up and the firm doubles. That is the logic that will carry him through the rest of the story: attention is currency, and shame only exists if you accept it. The irony is that the nickname he hates becomes the title of the film itself.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Fame arrives, and so does everyone who wants a piece.
• A temper like a hair trigger turns a phone into a threat.
• The narrator shrugs off criticism as free publicity.
• Chaos is described with the calm of a business report.

発音のポイント

• such thing as — Link such thing as smoothly, with no pause between them.
• gonna be — Gonna be often blurs into one unit in fast speech.
• They're like — They're weakens; put the stress on Mona Lisa instead.