I am going to analyze a scene of The Wolf of Wall Street, it is one of the most famous scenes in the film, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo Di Carpio) is having the first luxury lunch on Wall Street’s high class restaurant when the first day he works as a stock broker with his boss Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughney). This restaurant scene is one of the most iconic scene of the film because it is the scene started with Matthew Mark Hanna’s chest chant.

I will start to deconstruct and analyze the scene that stated Mark Hanna doing drugs in the restaurant because they started the conversation from that moment. There is a wide shot of the table of Jordan and Mark that shows both of them side by side and we could see the view throughout the windows and some tables and waiters walking around, also the dishes, glasses and cutlery on the table would make us understand that they are in the restaurant. I would say this shot is the cover shot to cover the whole scene because this shot appears couple of times from the beginning to the last shot of the scene.

Then the next shot comes with medium close ups of Jordan and Mark that they start the long conversation. The shots of them have been swapped over ten times when they are discussing about drug issue. There are couple of shots around one minute but there are only two set ups.

After that, they turn back to the wide shot that appears before when the waiter comes in with little panning and tilting. Then the medium close ups of Jordan and Mark again and we can the waiter is standing at the wedges on screen.

An extreme wide shot of the restaurant appears afterwards, it comes for a very short time. But, we could have a bigger and clearer picture of the restaurant that the background are the top parts of the skyscrapers and cityscape of New York, to illustrate they are in the high class restaurant in New York. Also, we could see the restaurant is full house with dressed-up people and waiters walking from side to side, so we could understand Mark has an extraordinary status on Wall Street.

After the long conversation again about the rules of Wall Street and how to make money as a stock broker of Jordan and Mark, the medium close ups of each other again. And the scene finishes with the chest chant jamming with Jordan, and it ends with the wide shot that we could see before. I would believe it is the same set up. So actually there are only 4 set ups of the whole scene and there are just little camera movements, the structure is simple but it turns out a very good effect and became one of the legend scenes of the film.