'Now, fast ... very fast'

'Now, fast ... very fast'
Joanna Lumley (Aunt Emma) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Jordan Belfort) on the set of The Wolf of Wall Street. (Image: Getty)
Simon Robertson
In the 2013 Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street, there's a scene that perfectly sums up the fast-moving events of the past week.Margot Robbie, who portrays Naomi in the film, is devastated and cries, announcing that "Emma is dead". Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), via a voiceover, says: "Fucking heart attack, boom, snap, gone, shuffled off her mortal coil, and $20 million stuck in a Swiss bank account."Cut to Jean Dujardin's animated Swiss banker character, Jean-Jacques Saurel, telling Belfort: "Now,...

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