The movie works because he was crazy, did a lot of drugs and fucked a lot of hot women. He's not the only guy in the history of Wall Street to ever do that however.
What would a Scorsese flick of my life have been? (or the others I mentioned above)
M-F: wake up at 5am, at work at 6am, read 10-Q/Ks all day and make phone calls to do stock research, stay till 8pm, eat dinner at home, asleep by 10pm
Sat: wake up at 6am, at work at 7am, stay till 6pm, eat dinner with wife at a restaurant, asleep by 10pm
Sun: wake up at 7am, at work at 8am, stay till 8pm, eat dinner at home, asleep by 10pm
I did that for my first 7 years, the last 4 without a beer/wine or any drugs except for an annual Z-pack for my fall sinus infections. I went over three years once without a vacation day.
The most exciting thing I did was take off a Saturday to go to the beach with my kids.
Not exactly movie material.
