12 More Movie Endings That Trolled Audiences
6. The Wolf Of Wall Street
A
blackly comic masterpiece (one of many times Leo was robbed off an Oscar which
was rightfully his), Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street seems set up to
be a pretty standard morality tale, not unlike the earlier Oliver Stone effort
Wall Street or biopics of more explicitly criminal figures such as Goodfellas’ Henry
Hill. However, after a protracted third act wherein our hero Jordan Belfort’s
entire scant enterprise falls apart around him, the film takes a left turn and
trolls audiences completely.
In the end the irascible Belfort learns nothing other than how to pass on his skills to other hopeful chancers, escaping any meaningful consequences, never redeeming himself, and essentially going from one high paying gig as an abusive sociopath to another.