Los Angeles: Leonardo DiCaprio has denied that his latest collaboration with Martin Scorsese in `The Wolf of Wall Street` is a glorification of a criminal but glamorous lifestyle.
The film has generated mix reviews and some of the critics have blamed Scorsese of glorifying the lifestory of Jordon Belfort, a Wall Street stockbroker who defrauded investors with fraudulent stock sales.
However, in an interview to HitFix, producer and film`s star DiCaprio said their attempt was to create something that will endure and tell a cautionary story about modern time.
"I think that at least the attempt going into it was to try to do something really outside of the box and I think Marty (Scorsese) had the same approach... In that regard I feel very proud of this performance. I think we took a lot of chances, and no matter what people think of the movie, we swung for the fences on this one," DiCaprio said.
"... I keep referencing `Caligula` but you think about `Scarface` films like that, I don`t know how people are going to react to it right off the bat, but I think as the years roll by people will appreciate what we were trying to do here."
Responding to the controversy that the film celebrated Belfort`s hedonism, DiCaprio said that they were condoning such behaviour but without being judgemental.
"...The unique thing about Marty is that he doesn`t judge his characters. And that was something that you don`t quite understand while you`re making the movie, but he allows the freedom of this almost hypnotic, drug-infused, wild ride that these characters go on. And he allows you, as an audience ? guilty or not ? to enjoy in that ride without judging who these people are.
"I mean ultimately I think if anyone watches this movie, at the end of `Wolf of Wall Street` they`re going to see that we`re not at all condoning this behavior. In fact we`re saying that this is something that is in our very culture and it needs to be looked at and it needs to be talked about," he added.
