{"id":471798,"date":"2025-12-26T01:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471798\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:12:18","slug":"martin-scorsese-pens-tribute-to-rob-reiner-remembers-scene-in-wolf-of-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471798\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese pens tribute to Rob Reiner, remembers scene in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary director Martin Scorsese penned a heartfelt essay to fellow filmmaker and \u201cfriend\u201d Rob Reiner, in which he recalled a memorable scene he shot in one of his movies that has taken on a whole new meaning since he and his wife, Michele\u2019s brutal murder allegedly at the hands of their son<\/a>, Nick.<\/p>\n

Scorsese, 83, and Reiner were friends for decades after growing close in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, bonding over their New York roots and shared love of comedy. <\/p>\n

When it came time to cast for his 2013 film \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street,\u201d Scorsese immediately thought of Reiner to play Max Belfort, the father of Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character, Jordan Belfort, who was based on a real-life crooked stock trader.<\/p>\n

\"MartinMartin Scorsese called the brutal murder of friend Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele \u201can obscenity\u201d in a heartfelt NYT tribute. Getty Images for TIME<\/p>\n

\"JonScorsese recalled Reiner\u2019s role as Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s father in 2013\u2019s \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street,\u201d which has taken on a new meaning since his shocking murder allegedly at the hands of his son. \u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

In his New York Times missive, Scorsese lauded Reiner as a \u201cmaster of comedy\u201d and said he \u201cunderstood the human predicament of his character\u201d in the Oscar nominee for Best Picture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man loved his son, he was happy with his success, but he knew that he was destined for a fall. There\u2019s that wonderful moment where Rob watches as Jon Favreau explains to Leo that he can get out relatively unscathed if he just walks away from his company before the SEC has a chance to charge him with violations,\u201d Scorsese recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe look on Rob\u2019s face, as he realizes Leo is hesitating and that he ultimately won\u2019t stop, is so eloquent. \u2018You got all the money in the world,\u2019 he says. \u2018You need everybody else\u2019s money?’\u201d <\/p>\n

The \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d and \u201cGoodfellas\u201d director described Reiner, whose own renowned film credits include beloved classics like \u201cA Few Good Men\u201d and \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally,\u201d as expertly portraying \u201ca loving father, mystified by his son\u201d in the famous scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, it breaks my heart to even think of the tenderness of Rob\u2019s performance in this and other scenes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Reiner, 78, and his wife, Daniele, 68, were found stabbed to death<\/a> inside their Brentwood, California home on Dec. 14, their troubled son, Nick, 32, has since been charged with their murders<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened to Rob and Michele is an obscenity, an abyss in lived reality,\u201d Scorsese wrote of his friend\u2019s brutal slaying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that will help me to accept it is the passing of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary director Martin Scorsese penned a heartfelt essay to fellow filmmaker and \u201cfriend\u201d Rob Reiner, in which he…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,83248,53,118515,206927,135653,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-471798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-martin-scorsese","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-rob-reiner","12":"tag-rob-reiner-murder","13":"tag-the-wolf-of-wall-street","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115783215013038119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}