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The classic definition, however—kind, emotionally sensitive, and caring about others—holds great appeal. A refined look at the results shows that Nice Todd was seen as the better marriage partner, steadier boyfriend, and better platonic friend though he was not significantly preferred for short-term relationships.

Being nice does come with some assumptions: Maybe women see nice guys as long-term relationship material, but not as the guys they might pursue for a fling.

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The Wolf of Wall Street plays the market differently. The value of investments can go down as well as up. Troublesome as it seems to be proving, the idea is not a new one. Both of those films, incidentally, provoked moral outcries in their time for broadly similar reasons. Martin Scorsese in a new dimension Scorsese includes a sensational scene that echoes the moment in The Public Enemy where Cagney vengefully pushes half a grapefruit into the face of his lover.

Like Paul Muni and James Cagney in those Golden Age gangster movies, he is larger, louder and more monstrous than life, and the likeness is surely intentional. This gives the film a darkly comic tone not usually found in Scorsese, but the material could hardly be treated any other way. A scene in which Belfort silently pantomimes rough sex with a customer he is duping over the telephone is played for hollow laughs, and a sequence where a drug-addled Belfort drags himself, inch by inch, across a car park leads to a magnificent slapstick episode — a demonic Jerry Lewis skit.

Money in that country is both a drug and a sacrament, and Belfort, the very avatar of material success, is by turns addict and preacher. This, right here, is the land of opportunity.