The Wolf of Wall Street Page #6

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27 INT. INVESTOR’S CENTER - DAY (DEC ‘87) 27

The antithesis of L.F. Rothschild, with cheap furnitureand a dozen misfit “BROKERS” giving loud, obnoxious salespitches. Jordan enters, a modern man among cave people.

DWAYNE, slovenly, 35, with a walrus mustache, looks up.

JORDAN:

I’m looking for Investor’s Center?

DWAYNE:

That’s us, hey. Dwayne.

JORDAN:

(as they shake hands)

Jordan Belfort, I called earlier.

I was a broker with Rothschild.

Dwayne motions Jordan to a seat. Nearby, a Broker inratty Keds, TOBY WELCH, is screaming into his phone.

TOBY WELCH:

I’m tellin’ you, this stock isgoin’ up!... Cause I know,

okay?!... I have inside

information!

Jordan looks at him, appalled at what he’s hearing.

JORDAN:

Where are your quotrons?

DWAYNE:

No quotrons, we sell off the pinksheets -- penny stocks.

Dwayne slides Jordan a large thin book; its pages areliterally pink. He explains as Jordan flips the pages:

DWAYNE (CONT’D)

Company don’t have enough capitalto be listed on NASDAQ, their

shares trade here.

(points to the book)

Like these guys, Aerotyne? Theymake radar detectors out of a

garage in Dubuque.

JORDAN:

Six cents a share? Who buys thiscrap?

DWAYNE:

Schmucks mostly. Mailmen,

plumbers, people thinking they canget rich quick. They answer ourads, Popular Mechanics, Hustler.

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JORDAN:

The spread on these is huge.

DWAYNE:

So’s your commission, that’s thepoint. Blue chips stocks you getwhat, one percent? Pink sheets

are fifty.

JORDAN:

Wait a second. You’re telling meif I sell two thousand dollars

worth of stock, my commission is athousand bucks?

DWAYNE:

Technically, yeah, but not eventhe biggest schmuck buys two

thousand dollars of this sh*t.

28 INT. INVESTOR’S CENTER - (LATER THAT) DAY (DEC ’87) 28

As others Brokers bark into phones, Jordan sits, phonecradled in his shoulder, making notes. A few beats, then:

JORDAN:

(into phone)

Mr. Fleming, good morning, JordanBelfort with Investor’s Center in

New York City. You recentlyresponded to one of our ads...

A few of the other Brokers glance over, eavesdropping.

JORDAN (CONT’D)

The reason I’m calling is thatan extremely exciting investmentopportunity crossed my desk today.

Typically our firm recommends nomore than five stocks per year:

this is one of them...

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