It was too much of a traditional approach to understanding what makes these people completely self-consumed and hedonistic. But to Marty, that’s been done so many times. People want to see the wake of the destruction. He leaves that up to the audience because I think he’s analyzing something within our very nature in a culture.īut because there’s no explicit condemnation, a lot of people read that as an implied endorsement of this behavior. The difference between him and a lot of filmmakers is that he doesn’t really pass judgment on these characters. It started with “Mean Streets.” That’s how Marty came in. “Wolf,” more than your other movies with Scorsese, is really your initiation into his alpha male movie world, a place that’s equal parts exhilarating and repulsive.Yeah. Still, consider this a spoiler alert for those who aren’t familiar with the story. Part of the interview discusses the movie’s ending, which, being based on a true story, is a matter of record. DiCaprio does too, and during our conversation he took pains to explain “Wolf’s” ambitions and how the public’s mixed reaction might reflect our own ambivalence toward the way people like Belfort represent an aspect of the American psyche.