The Wolf of Wall Street: The Lamborghini Wrecked by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Iconic Film

2023-12-28 14:16:05

During the last years, Leonardo Dicaprio He has become one of the most representative actors in cinema, with memorable roles in almost all the films in which he has appeared. One of them was Jordan Belfort in ‘The wolf of Wall Street’where he perfectly personified a stockbroker who became slowly corrupted thanks to the immense fortune he amassed in less than honorable ways.

In particular, one of the most remembered scenes is when, under the influence of barbiturates, he tried to drive his beautiful Lamborghini Countach from the country club to his house, a situation that at first seemed to have ended well, but in reality, left as a result a beautiful piece of automobile absolutely destroyed.

The Lamborghini that DiCaprio drove: An irresistible item?

Anyone would think that a wrecked car wouldn’t be worth much to anyone, and the truth is they have proven right, since that Lamborghini destroyed has been one of the main items during an auction held as a preamble to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the 2023 season of the Formula 1, but no one dared to make a serious offer for him.

That completely destroyed model, with American specifications, finished in Polo White with a white interior, manufactured in 1989 with only 11,300 kilometers, was put up for sale by the prestigious auction house Bonhams, in the hope of attracting the attention of attendees, who in reality, were not convinced in any way.

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Not even the fame of The Wolf of Wall Street makes the Lamborghini worth it

The auction for the wrecked car, which also included a director’s chair and jacket, a cap signed by Martin Scorsese and DiCaprio, two sweatshirts from the production team and two DVDs of the film, estimated to reach a price between 1.38 and 1.83 million euros, however, no one made a serious offer and they had to return to the United States with all the merchandise, in Hope to have better luck in the future.

In this case, the vision of the iconic director did not generate the attention that he usually has, at least when watching his films, since outside of them, he has not had the expected success, since no one seems to appreciate the historical value that having in his garage, the destroyed car that appeared in a movie that was a worldwide success.

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For the sake of the movie

At that time, Martin Scorsese decided it was a good idea to destroy a Lamborghini Countach authentic, since he does not like people to notice it when watching the movie, so he ordered a real one to be destroyed, something that among connoisseurs was considered sacrilege, since only 658 units of the vehicle were manufactured in all of it. the world.

When the scene where Jordan Belfort wrecks the car was filmed, it actually only ended up with some minor damage, so to get that final look when the tycoon looks out to see that he didn’t drive as well as he thought, the director ordered impact the car in different ways, and thus make it look very far from its original splendor.

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The above occurred due to the character’s poor driving while being drugged, while in his hallucination he seems to have driven without any major problems. For that sequence, a rented Lamborghini was used, with the premise of returning it without a scratch, so it only appeared for 16 seconds. While at first glance it looked authentic to the original, several fans noticed several differences.

Without a doubt, it will take a long time to find a buyer willing to have in their garage a piece that went from being an almost unpublished vehicle to being a pile of rubble that was part of one of the most acclaimed productions of the last decade, which was part of the career of an actor who, years later, would see his work fairly rewarded following winning an Oscar for his role in ‘The Revenant’.

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