#FILM
The film Wolf of Wall Street has just been
nominated in the Oscar’s best picture category alongside Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave starring Kenya’s
Hollywood star-sensation Lupita Nyong’o.
Directed by Martin
Scorsese; The Wolf Of Wall Street is
based on a memoir by stockbroker Jordan
Belfort, who created the investment firm Stratton Oakmont in an abandoned
garage.
He spent much of the 90’s
swindling his way to an enormous personal fortune. According to critics; the
film dwells on Belfort’s criminal route to the top; and the limitless supply of
girls and drugs he finds there. A typical week at Stratton Oakmont involves
dwarf-tossing, naked marching bands and a spectacle Belfort describes as a “stripping
stampede.”
As such, the film
stands accused of glamourizing his crimes, prostitution, homosexuality,
ignoring his victims and filing to satisfy the audience’s need to see justice
served. The movie holds a record for 569 f-bombs used.
Attending a scripting
for screen class at Daystar University Nairobi this week; the movie created a
lot of buzz because the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) banned the movie
that stars Leonardo Di Caprio.
Movie buffs and students
attending the class claimed KFCB move was a big shock to movie lovers, with
many disapproving the drastic action.
“You let series like
Spartacus, which have sex and violence. You let Game of Thrones and many others
and you think you will stop us from this one?”
posed James Gatithu on Facebook.
The irony is that; with
pirated movies retailing as KSH 50 and even less at Downtown Nairobi’s legion
of movie stores, the ban has only but heightened curiosity and appetite for the
film- ending up a business boom amongst the pockets of pirates.
The ban in part reads… “The
film is not for sale, exhibition or distribution in Kenya. Violators shall be
prosecuted.”
Kenya however is not
the first state to take such action on the movie. United Arab Emirates cut 45
minutes out of the film to protect viewers.
By Embukane Vincent
Libosso.
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