Yes, “The Wolf of Wall Street” opened 10 years ago this week. I don’t necessarily think it just predicted Trump as much as just this massive cultural change of excess and outrage, which would happen just a few years later. According to these polls, it’s either ‘Wolf’ or “The Departed” as the best film Scorsese’s released since 1999.Ī 10-year-anniversary write-up from Esquire makes claim of ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ being such a prescient film that it ended up predicting the Trump era. This year, we had two separate Scorsese polls - for critics and readers - and “The Wolf of Wall Street” kept cementing its legacy as the filmmaker’s best film of the 21st Century. Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” was released 10 years ago yesterday.
