El soborno

“In the famous FBI boat scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, the gentleman from the Bureau was asked to leave after he made allegations of bribery. It is one of the most replayed sequences of a wonderfully good movie and rightly so.

It was indeed a bribe and it seemed quite a compelling offer – a less scrupulous agent may well have chosen to stay on board and see what else the wolf had to offer. That was the narrative in my mind for this image.

It looks like this has all the ingredients of a good party and the night is yet young. Jordan Belfort finds it very easy to play himself; it really requires no effort on his part whatsoever. Kate Bock and Josie Canseco are regular muses for my camera and always play their roles to perfection. Meanwhile, the agent himself seems to be entertaining all around him and why not? It was a whole new life for him.” – David Yarrow