"The Culture ministry bears responsibility for the content of the film," Yelena Dmitriyeva, director of the Kinositi cinema chain, told. The chains look likely to appeal the decision on the basis that The Wolf of Wall Street was cleared for screening by Russia's culture ministry. The organisation issued a statement claiming the service should focus on fighting illegal drug use rather than attacking films for alleged "propaganda". The move has been condemned by Kinoalliance, an association of Russian theatres and movie chains. According to a statement from the Itar-Tass news agency, 10 cinemas were deemed to have "reflected a subculture of drug abusers" and "idealised the use of narcotics" by showing the controversial film. The Moscow Times says the case was brought by a regional department of the Federal Service for Narcotics Control against chains in the unofficial Siberian capital of Novosibirsk, Russia's third largest city with 1.5 million people. The most swearing in one film title was also previously held by gritty domestic British drama Nil By Mouth (1997), written and directed by Gary Oldman, which contained 428 uses of the expletive.Five Russian cinema chains have been fined a total of more than 4m rubles (£68,000) for showing Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street in apparent contravention of laws banning the promotion of illegal drugs.
Scorsese has broken his own record - Vegas gangster epic Casino (1995) was a record breaking swear-fest at the time of release, containing 422 uses of the f-bomb (including in the narration) - 2.4 times per minute. “Swear words were muted, which made almost every sentence in the movie hard to understand," complained one disgruntled viewer.
The National reports that the heavy use of profanity, drug use and sexually explicit scenes has caused distribution problems in the Middle East - the cut version of the film showing in cinemas across the United Arab Emirates is forty five minutes shorter than the original uncut release. The film, starring Scorsese's regular go-to star Leonardo DiCaprio, is based on a memoir by Wall Street trader Jordan Belfort, whose decadent fast-living partying and gratuitous wealth created from dubious stockbroking is depicted in the biopic. The same f-word expletive is used 506 times – an average of 2.81 times per minute. Martin Scorsese's latest big screen release The Wolf of Wall Street has set a new Guinness World Records record title for most swearing in one film.
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