Production note The movie set a Guinness World Record for most F-words in a motion picture, with 506 uses.
Production note The actors snorted crushed B vitamins for cocaine scenes.
Production note Jonah Hill reportedly took only $60,000 for the role.
Production note The film had roughly 400–450 VFX shots, unusually many for Scorsese.
Production note The movie was allegedly financed with money stolen from Malaysia’s 1MDB fund.
Production note Matthew McConaughey’s chest-beating was an improvised warmup and helped set the film’s tone.
Production note Scorsese confirmed some drug scenes have intentionally odd continuity.
Mentioned with uncertainty The final real-Jordan Belfort cameo is discussed as feeling awkward but thematically fitting.
Goodfellas Used as the main comparison for Scorsese’s glorification/ farce style.
The Big Short Compared as another financial-crisis movie that found a way to make complex material entertaining.
Boiler Room Mentioned as a closer tonal cousin to Wolf of Wall Street.
Wall Street Referenced as the earlier Oliver Stone finance movie with a different focus.
The Town Used to discuss regional identity and psychology of criminals.
Joker Invoked as a contemporary example of moral panic around audience identification.
Field of Dreams Used as shorthand for overly redemptive storytelling the hosts reject.
The Office Referenced in the context of voiceover/direct-address style.
The Artist Mentioned in the cast-what-if discussion around Jean Dujardin.
Inception Used to illustrate DiCaprio’s range and commercial stature.
Titanic Referenced as a possible apex-mountain candidate for DiCaprio.
The Revenant Discussed as the role that finally won DiCaprio his Oscar.
Casino Used as a prior Scorsese profanity benchmark.
99 Homes Cited as a film about financial victims that few people watched.
Billion Dollar Whale Used to explain the financing scandal around the film through 1MDB money.
