Continuity mistake: The remains of the cigarette Donnie holds during the first meeting in the office room changes from shot to shot.
Revealing mistake: Naomi opens her legs in their daughter's room and tells Jordan she's not wearing panties, but she's actually wearing some, as we can see in a shot seconds later.
Other mistake: When Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill are on the sinking yacht with their wives, DiCaprio is holding his wife but you don't see Hill's. Nor do you see her on the Red Cross boat.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan snorts blow from Naomi's breasts, the amount on the right breast suddenly diminishes between shots.
Visible crew/equipment: The first time the movie shows Jordan driving out of the Country Club, high on Lemmon, the front of a camera is visible to the right.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan is flirting with Naomi at the party a woman walks by and tells him that his wife is waiting. Naomi's left arm is raised or lowered depending on the shot.
Continuity mistake: During the Steve Madden scene Jordan says his workers are killers. He holds the mic with his right hand and places his left around a worker's nape. When the angle changes the mic has swapped hands, the hand is gone and Jordan is extending his right arm to grab the nape again.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan introduces Steve Madden to his employees their arms' position differs between the front and back shots.
Continuity mistake: During Naomi and Jordan's water fight over Venice he extends his arms towards her waist and asks for a kiss. Angle cuts and he's away from her, arms lowered. Then she throws the glass of water at him.
Audio problem: After Jordan meets aunt Emma and his pals are dancing, the vocals don't match the singer's mouth.
Continuity mistake: When the marching band shows up in the office a woman twirls a baton and it falls off her hand. A shot later she is twirling it again.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan presents the Oakman logo and brand the paper he holds swaps hands between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan eats with his future partners he tells them to sell him a pen. The hand he holds it with changes between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan goes to his Long Island job his boss talks about two brothers and radars and raises his right arm. From the opposite angle it's lowered and he raises it again.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan's wife finds a classified in the paper he raises a mug and takes it to his lips. A shot later the mug is gone.
Continuity mistake: During Mark and Jordan's meal, the second time they do the chest thumping ritual, in the side angles Leo Di Caprio can't help sneer and tries hard not to burst out laughing. In the front shot he is suddenly very serious. This swaps back and forth between shots. This was due to the fact that the scene was improvised, as Matthew McConaughey once told: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/matthew-mcconaughey-interview-gold-wolf-of-wall-street-lunch-scene-chest-thumping-tune-film-a7557551.html.
Continuity mistake: During his first day in Wall St. Jordan's boss tells him to pick the "c*ck sucking phone" which Jordan does and puts to his ear. A shot later the phone is gone.
Factual error: The screen writer has inadvertently turned Jordan Belfast into an omniscient being through his incredible foresight to have known in the mid-90s that internet stocks (late 1990s) and CLOs (mid 2000s) would become the subject of significant Wall Street misdeeds...with that type of foresight, Mr. Belfast would have never had to pump and dump stocks to make money! From the yacht scene at World Financial Center: "You know who you should be looking at? Goldman, Lehman Brothers, Merrill. What those guys're up to with collateralized debt obligations? This internet stock bullshit? C'mon. If you want, I'll walk you through exactly." Sloppy unprofessional writing - completely out of context for the time at which the discussion was happening...it sure would have been interesting if Agent Denham had taken Jordan up on the offer.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan is talking with the FBI and their lawyers, there is a box on the table that moves between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Jordan is talking with the FBI agent on his boat, the sun changes between shots.
Suggested correction: She is teasing him, goading him, trying to make him find out for himself whether she is going commando or not.
No, she is not. She spreads her legs and reveals to him she isn't wearing any panties and then tells him he's not allowed to touch her. What would be the point of goading him to make him wonder if she is going commando when she's very deliberately flashing her privates at him?
Phaneron ★