I wish they'd make a movie of "High Cotton" http://www.amazon.com/High-Cotton-Love-Death-Street/dp/0312911033
i found the book generally boring because i didn't care to hear about his exploits. i also knew people who told me their stories of wild and wooly stuff going on in the mid/late 80s.
Does anyone know if the guy who wrote the book is getting a cut of the movie profits? If so, I'll skip it. The guy was on CNBC a few months ago and seemed like a real lowlife scumbag.
It is pretty safe to say that he is... Actually, not: "Is the movie based on a true story? It's based on an experience the screenwriter, Ben Young, had when he was recruited for a boiler room job a few years earlier. This scene was born out of an experience Younger had five years ago, when he accompanied an acquaintance employed in a boiler room to just such a meeting. "He was my friend's younger brother, and he was driving a new sports car," says Younger. "This guy tells me, 'Look, you work here for a year, you make your million bucks, go to the Bahamas, and then you can write.' I was like, 'Um, I'll check my book, but I'm pretty sure his fits into the game plan.' " The firm, which was busted a few years later, offered him a job. But instead of living the life, Younger decided to write about it. "I walked in and immediately realized, this is my movie. I mean, you see these kids and you know something is going on. I was expecting guys who went to Dartmouth, but they were all barely out of high school, sitting in a room playing Game Boys. I had already run a campaign at this point, but most of these kids were still working at the gas station," says Younger. "Now it's all over the news, but going back five years ago, day trading, the Internet, none of that existed." http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/1850/ Wiki also says: "The film is based on interviews the writer conducted with numerous brokers over a two-year period."
Yeah dude it was. I remember watching Ben Young's interviews 13 years ago when it came out and he talked about Belfort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Belfort "In the 1990s, he founded brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont which functioned as a boiler room, and developed a hard-partying lifestyle, which included a serious drug addiction (Quaaludes).[1][7] The firm also served as inspiration for the 2000 film Boiler Room.[8] Stratton Oakmont employed over 1000 stockbrokers and was involved in stock issues totaling more than $1 billion, including an equity raising for footwear company Steve Madden Ltd."
Yeah, I enjoyed that one. The hiring scene is classic--- GET THE F&&CK OUT OF HERE! LOL! surf PS-- i'll never forget that when I first got out of college, I interviewed at a notororious Philadelphia based penny stock firm. I asked the joker how the stock price moved if it wasnt' actually traded. He showed me a big bulletin board and said-- " we just move the price higher each time it sells on this board"--- LMFAO!! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w4Pu_JuPILw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>