Jordan Belfort

This is going to be 10 times better movie now because it's going to be like up.

And then Marty saw this and was like, he became obsessed.

I sent Marty 50 videos on the straight line.

There was a four hour cut of the movie before the final cut that was shown.

to some people probably, that had like 10 times as much, and I love the sales stuff because it was so, they said so much about what really happened, right?

It had to cut up because it was just too long.

But what happened was it created, A, those scenes where I come back with the, right, where I'm giving seminars.

And I get arrested, right?

And that was fictionalized.

Like I wasn't teaching the straight line, but they loved it so much.

They put it in there, my new life and the old.

And then they end the movie where I go to jail and,

Ends up with me selling this pen, which is this iconic scene at the end.

So really, I rewrote my own life story while it was being made into a movie.

I changed my own ending through hard work, perseverance, and some luck too, but mostly hard work and perseverance.

2012.

Complex.

So I sold it originally for an option.

So I got back a total in the beginning.

Before it was bought, I got about $700,000 for just the option money.