I can’t believe Matthew McConaughey improvised most of the scene. GENIUS. One of the best actors of all time.

Literally everything that makes this scene so iconic wasnt in the script, its crazy

This is where you realize how Natural Matthew is....an acting master class. The guy just used the script and said: "we can add a few things to spice it up", amazing.!!!

It's like Leo is looking at the filming crew or Scorcesse himself every now and then and be like wtf but still remains in character.

I cant believe the "rookie numbers" line is made up lmao The most known parts of this scene were all improv 😮

2:17 that “stay with me” was a hint for Leo to still go along with him and yet it perfectly fits to conversation

It isn't just the brilliance of the improved lines by MM, it's how he paces them. It's literally like eavesdropping at the table, the acting is so smooth and effortless.

The script looks so badly written now compared to what Matthew was improvising, he's on another level

How he changed the jerk off thing is crazy so much better and more out the blue in his performance

Everyone is patting MM on the back but DiCaprio's understated earnestness to all this silly nonsense is key.

Matthew was skinny because he was preparing for Dallas Buyers Club during the shooting of The Wolf of Wall Street, and Dallas Buyers Club is the film he received an Oscar for. He was at the peak of his career performance.

That “HAWww!” Gets me everytime lol

5:40 You can cleary see Leo trying not to laugh. Matt sounds like the type of actor that you give him who the character is and what the scene is and he goes after all the info he needs. Amazing performarce. Too bad the original one was deleted.

Imagine briefly drafting a scene and knowing that when it gets filmed the actors will take it to a different dimension altogether.

0:49 "Jordan might as well have farted at the table."😂

The way the script just stops in its tracks while Hanna does his thing.

So we’ll acted by both. McConaughey going way off tangent but coming back makes it. But Leo able to keep up with where he’s going and improvise himself just shows how good these 2 are.

matt goes for like 2 minutes adding in more color. amazing

It’s pretty clear there must be a big collaborative process here - McConaughey came in with a bunch of brilliant lines and threw them all out there in multiple filmed/unfilmed takes, probably getting feedback and input it from Leo, Scorsese and others. I’m assuming it’s a free flowing work shop type deal with multiple takes revisions etc.. Then it’s edited and spliced together at Scorsese’s discretion (with others). You can clearly hear a splice during the “digits ekekek” 3:57 line. That little snippet was added from another take because it’s just hilarious. Anyways.. I just find it interesting to imagine the process. It’s not so simple as: this was the script, but McConaughey improvised. It’s more like a symphony of people coming together to create something special. Cast, crew director, editors etc..

Matthew McConaughey is in the zone with this scene! Exceptional acting!

I wish Mathew McConaughey had more roles in the wolf of Wall Street that would have been great 😂love this scene one of my favorite scenes of the movie

Wow such a difference from script. The buying and selling of drugs makes sense on paper to give sense of something illicit, but the actors portrayal was visceral by it being all out in public. Dudes rich he already has coke, palms money to the matre'ds hand because he's really making that cash. I loved the ending in the script, he learned the ways of wall street for the next 6 months. Like a hunter introducing a noob to the prowess of surviving. Crazy good contrasts.

3:58 Leo looked at director 😅, asking WTF is going on 😂

To see that like 98% of this particular scene 🎬 was improvised compared to its scripted version is pure acting talent by MM with Leo following suit and Scorsese "approving" it

At one point the script was like f*ck it I ain't moving

At some point the script just stops scrolling, like saying "fuk it, he's not using these lines anyway".

Others have said it but you can tell the script was workshopped and not just improvised by the waiter showing up and MM going “yessir” an extra wouldn’t dare just walk into the scene while two leads were riffing so these changes have more structure than is implied here, still it’s clear MM brought his own take and spin to the character and I’m sure he still went well off script to the updated version

Matthew McConaughey definitely did his research to pull that off. Insane.

Matt should have had writing credits for this movie

I just now realized the scene was set in the World Trade Center

5:50 you can see Leo looking at his side, he is looking at Martin and Martin nods to keep going🤣

Its kinda weird how all the comments are about how amazed yall are that they went off script. These are the top line actors. Their job is to study their characters and sorta become them, so it makes perfect sense they would fill out the scenes with realistic shop talk.

I can’t believe that both Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo DeCaprio got nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor(that the former won) for films that released in the same year, this movie, and Dallas Buyers Club.

One way to think about it is, the script is “written intent”. Sometimes all the lines click really well out loud and actors stick really close to it. Other times, not so much but great actors translate the intention of the written words into what they feel, and brings out the best of the characters they’re portraying. This is an example of a rather significant improv but it was magic. A fine balance of playing an intelligent but clearly devious and cracked out Wall Street guy of that era. As a writer I wouldn’t feel disrespected in any way should an actor be able to pull something like this off of the framework the screenplay has provided. Also - Matt gets most of the limelight but Leo’s acting here is a perfect counterweight that makes the scene brilliant.

Probably the only time leo had to barely keep himself together😂😂.

I love how he's saying if u don't jerk off u die

best improv

When you realise the background windows are just paper, a wallpaper, you see things differently.

Absolute masterclass!

Matthew just breached the screen here

iconic scene 🎬

Dude improvised so many of these lines and they were so much better than what was written. There was too much in the script so he simplified it and still made it hilarious. Amazing actor.

Wow he just did whatever he wanted. Such a pro.

If it’s the real script, it truly shows the dance between verbatim and adlib.

I didn't realize that was the mythical windows of the world restaurant, only 10 years later i realize that...

1:18 Love the improvise. This how people in telemarketing thinks, after they have closed a customers 😂

Wow, the script is so... plain.

By the time I watched this movie in cinema, I had no idea who this actor is. I just thought he led the scene so well and out-acted Leo by a mile. But every friend of mine told me Leo was better. Now I know I was right.

this is where the art is

Script to Matthew: Am I joke to you?

Jordan made a mistake. NEVER toast with water, it’s considered bad luck…

Incredible to see how the best lines were practically all unscripted.

I never realised that they are eating at WTC Windows of the World restaurant

Genius 🎉

Love it❤

When script stop rolling during his WS speech, i was like wait what happened. Until i read the comments that he is actully improvising what he says 😂. The fact that Leo can actually hide his confusion from the improv is soo good

Martin Scorsese hands MM the script of his role as mark hanna, MM "Fuck the script!"

you can see, when in the screen both of them are there, is the actual improvisation. You can see Leo's face changing from a guys internally saying "WTF is happening haha" to a more serious guy on the scenes when he is alone on the shot. So the real improvisation is when both of them are being recorded.

Fun fact: it was actually Leo's idea for Mathew to include the chest-thumping at the end of the scene. (Source: the independent) Crazy acting by these two beasts!

Alot of people comments this is the exact script for the final movie. Its not, its a very rough outline that only gets the point across. It then gets refined and expanded dozens of times. A scene cant be this improvised.

This is the scene Jordan Belfort became Heisenberg

I love that they went off-script, because it would've been boring otherwise. Matthew McConaughey's acting is unbeatable. I love how Leo was confused like 90% of the time 😂

2:00 he explained how Robinhood works

His improvisation is connected with Leo/Jordan confusion perfectly Confused because Jordan is new on Wall Street and confused Leo because Matthew goes off the script

I'd never actually seen that "rookie numbers" line in context, always thought it was about sales

nice

Starting to think McConaughey genuinely took drugs before doing this scene

Very acidic above the shoulders mustard shit

Very funny to watch this scene after "True detective"

I always think it’s funny when Leo says “no thank you, though” like adding though just make me laugh he’s uncomfortable

Is that why Leo is trying not to laugh when Matthew starts beating his chest

this is literally the “your line was X” meme

5:44 "keep it up for me" Leo is so confused at this point

2 absolute masters of their craft. No wonder movies are shit nowadays the flair and individualism has completely gone unless the OG’s are in.

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The only fantastic scene in the movie. Di Caprio is totally out acted.

I hate McConaughey‘s whisteling while he’s talking so much 😅

All I noticed was them skipping lines. SMH.

Imagine the pure understanding and talent the actors would have with that kind of shitty script 😂 Let's just pretend this is all a script has to offer for a scene like that in a movie like that 😂👎

Im the weirdest person on earth. I think I'm the only person on earth that hated this movie. I walked out during the high rolling down the the steps scene.

they really could have cut this shit out along with some other crap and shortened the movie to a more bearable 2-2.5 hrs. just sayin...great movie but shorter would have been even greater.

Wow most of it was improvised The question is , does the director approves it or they have the power to just do it anyway?😬