10 Ways To Get Stupidly Rich (That We Learnt From Movies)

10. Commit Large-Scale Fraud - The Wolf Of Wall Street

Wall Street. It has a long established reputation as being the place to go if you're keen to make obscene amounts of money, just so long as you're more than happy to check your conscience at the door before you hit the floor and start to trade. Once you've done this there are literally billions to be made, as Jordan Belfort, the real-life New York stockbroker who amassed a huge fortune in just a few years, can testify to. The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's delirious look at the life of Belfort (played by Scorsese regular Leonardo diCaprio) and the corruption, fraud and wanton hedonism which surrounded him, provides audiences with an insight into just how decadent the lives of the rich and powerful on Wall Street can really be. Endless parties featuring an endless supply of drugs are there for those willing to take the risks - largely with other people's hard earned money, of course. Naturally, if you're going to get stupidly rich off the misfortune of others, swindling them out of their cash and living a ridiculously lavish lifestyle, you have to accept the fact that the law will catch up with you sooner or later. Not that this seems to have affected Belfort too badly - since his indictment he's made a fortune from his memoirs and selling the movie rights to Universal Pictures in a bidding war. Who says crime doesn't pay?