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"FacebookPinterest\n\nAfter an official Academy screening of The Wolf of Wall Street over the weekend, Martin Scorsese found himself on the receiving end of some good old fashioned geriatric ire\u2014pretty much the critical equivalent of \"get off my lawn you damn kids!\" Hope Holiday, a 75-year-old actor, posted on her Facebook page about an incident after the screening where an anonymous screenwriter shouted, \"shame on you\" and \"disgusting\" to Scorsese as he was exiting an elevator. Holiday apparently shared the sentiment writing, \"same disgusting crap over and over again.\" Apparently the august viewers were not impressed by the depiction of sex and drugs in the film\u2014you know, the fun stuff\u2014a situation that doesn't bode well for Scorsese's Oscar chances considering the Academy's older makeup. They're cool with the entire cast of Departed getting holes blown in them, but when it comes to letting the good times roll, looks like the Olds get conservative real quick.\n\nWhether you're a fan of Scorsese or not, or even a fan of the film, it's hard not to see that he is working with orgies in Wolf the way he has traditionally worked with violence in many of his classic films. The Scorsese M.O., one aped by scores of filmmakers after him, is to load his films with the darker aspects of human nature in order to illustrate the brokenness of his characters. Whether it's a gangster like Henry Hill or a dirty cop like Colin Sullivan, Scorsese saturates his color palette in order to make us viewers actually feel the moral degradation. So it's no surprise that he would overdo the sex and drugs in The Wolf of Wall Street. He's not some pervy old man, he's actually trying to show us how fractured and ugly these characters are, and in order to do so, it's often most effective to skew reality. What is shocking is that people are so outraged by a bit of T&amp;amp;A but not by violence. Of course, that's nothing new. One boob and it seems as if a film totters on an NC-17 rating, but a filmmaker can blow several people away before it even edges up into R territory. Just think of all the destruction and mayhem coming from your typical Marvel movie and you get the picture.\n\nThe real Wall Street, at least the darker corners of it, are certainly populated by mostly men who engage in all manner of debauchery. And it's a level of debauchery that makes us uncomfortable, because on the one hand we're repulsed by it, but on the other hand, though we hate to admit it even to ourselves, we're kind of jealous of it. Scorsese is a filmmaker who understands this split personality better than most, and he's not afraid to charge in and throw it in our face. This is what great artists do, they make us uncomfortable in our own skin. Dostoyevksy became one of the greatest writers of the 19th century doing exactly that. And while The Wolf of Wall Street hardly exists on the level of a Dostoyevsky novel, or even on the level of some of Scorsese's best films, after four decades of filmmaking it seems fair to give the man some elbowroom when it comes to chronicling the more prurient vices along the spectrum of American culture. And besides, there's a great little trick that these stuffy olds can try when they find themselves stuck watching a movie they don't like: just leave.\n\n[Via theguardian.com]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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