The Wolf of Wall Street goofs

On the Stratton Oakmont trading floor, an electronic ticker displays the symbol "HPQ," the identifier Hewlett-Packard adopted after its acquisition of Compaq. HP acquired Compaq in 2002.

A parade of shops on Long Island houses a Radio Shack displaying its 1995 logo.

Belfort claims to have used Adderall among his many drugs of choice, yet the medication did not reach the market until 1996, four years after he was indicted by the SEC.

The scene set in Geneva features a contemporary tram constructed after 2000.

When the marching band enters the office, you can see the harnesses the percussionists wear to support their drums. These are contemporary designs, incorporating a strap that passes around the players' backs to provide the instrument with additional stability. Such a style of harness did not exist in the period in which the scene is set.

When Jordan receives a duffel bag of cash on the golf course, his clubs are not only too modern for the era but are also mismatched, with some being left-handed and others right-handed.

Belfort's daughter is playing with a Glo Worm produced in 2012.

Whilst Jordan's car is parked outside the diner, the train passing in the background is an M7 rail carriage built after 2002.

As Venice "tortures" Jordan, she cries out, "Shut up, you little bitch!" but her lips do not move.

When Donnie and Jordan first cross paths in the diner, Jordan replies "Well, technically 72,000, last month, something of that sort," yet his lips don't move when he says "something of that sort."

When Jordan first encounters Naomi, she speaks with an Australian accent rather than the New York one she uses for the remainder of the film.

Jordan asserts that the US criminal code requires a dollar amount for bribery to be considered a criminal offence. That is incorrect. The statute specifies that offering "anything of value" to a government official amounts to a bribe.

Rather than travelling alongside the Italian Riviera within sight of the shore en route to Monaco, The Naomi is swamped by a storm out on the open sea (in reality she foundered 20 miles off the coast of Sardinia when a 20‑knot blow escalated into a 70‑knot storm with 35‑foot wave crests). Her skipper is not merely incompetent; Belfort, despite having no experience, could have steered The Naomi to Monaco.

At the wedding reception, when Aunt Emma arrives, Naomi goes over to attract Jordan's attention so she can introduce them. When the scene cuts to Jordan dancing, it becomes obvious a body double is being used; the shot briefly cuts away and when it returns everything appears correct again.

The man who introduces Belfort at the seminar (portrayed by the real Belfort) does so while uttering three "MF" expletives. No compère would use such foul language in front of an audience.

After Jordan steps out of the limousine and Teresa discovers his affair with Naomi, she slams the car door twice.

While Jordan is explaining how Quaaludes originated at the pool table, Donnie knocks a beer off a ledge. In the subsequent shot the beer is back, only to disappear once more in the third shot.

When Teresa catches Jordan in the act of an affair, the limousine vanishes, only to reappear and drive off as she lashes out at him outside the hotel.

When Jordan notes that his Ferrari was white rather than red, he’s actually behind the wheel of a 1992 Ferrari Testarossa 512TR. Later, when he and Naomi pull up outside her flat, the car is a white 1986 Testarossa.

When Jordan asks Brad to sell him the pen in the café, in one shot Brad reaches for the pen, and in the following shot he reaches for it again.

After Jordan presents Naomi with a yacht as a wedding present, the vessel shown in the subsequent scene is clearly a different model. It's missing two prominent windows near the forward section of the hull.

When the Naomi is encountering "chop," Donny's wife is no longer aboard the yacht with the others, even though the rest of the vessel is awash.

Donnie wakes on the settee and accidentally knocks a beer glass from the shelf behind him. In the subsequent shot, the beer glass is shown beside a red-wine glass.

When Jordan pulls up outside the shabby 'Investor Centre' in a car, we never see him step out — instead he materialises out of thin air by the office door.

After Jordan has an argument with his wife and reverses out of the garage with his daughter in the car, a reverse point-of-view shot reveals that the overhead door he crashed through is actually a swing-style door and remains intact.

When Donnie and Jordan first meet in the Kacandes Diner, a grey Jaguar XJ-S can be clearly seen in the background while the camera is trained on Jordan. In a later scene the same car is shown being driven by both Jordan and Donnie, which seems unlikely since neither would plausibly own it: a) Donnie could scarcely afford a brand-new Jaguar on his salary in the children's furniture trade, and b) Jordan is already shown driving his E-Type, so the XJ-S outside the diner could not realistically be his.

In the scene where Brad winds the notes around Chantalle, Belfort is wearing the gold watch he had thrown out earlier.

When Jordan asks Chester to sell him the pen, Chester offers it in his left hand. Yet in the following shot it appears in his right, and then in the subsequent shot it is back in his left before he swaps hands to pass the pen to Brad.

When the butler discloses that Donny knows "Rudy", Donny moves along Jordan's back from right to left. In the subsequent shot he moves from left to right while occupying an entirely different position.

When Denham and Hughes arrive on Belfort's yacht, whilst Denham says to Belfort, "your message said that you wanted to speak privately", there is a shot of Belfort with his left hand on the back of the woman in the white bikini and a wineglass in his right. In the next shot his hand is off the woman's back and he is drinking the wine.

When Jordan first arrives at the Investor Centre, a woman carrying a briefcase can be seen walking past the shopfronts and then she disappears without a trace.

As Belfort pulls up at the Long Island shopping parade, a woman walking on the far left-hand side disappears. Belfort then materialises in front of his car and proceeds to walk to his interview. He is never shown alighting from his vehicle or exiting any of the other shops.

Close-up shots of the yellow Jaguar E-Type reveal the famed "big cat" bonnet ornament and the manufacturer's badge, but in long shots of the car both the bonnet ornament and the badge are absent.

When Naomi taunts Jordan in the nursery, her legs are already apart. In the next shot her legs are resting on the floor, then it cuts back to the original shot showing them apart.

Mark Hanna wipes his nose with a serviette while speaking to the waiter. In the subsequent shot the serviette has vanished, and the hand that had been holding it is tucked inside Hanna's jacket.

In the close-up between Belfort and Mark Hanna at the restaurant, two martini glasses are visible on the table. In the subsequent shot, only one martini glass remains on the table.

Towards the end, while Naomi and Jordan are fighting, Naomi has black nail varnish on; however, when Jordan reverses the car out of the garage with their daughter and crashes, Naomi takes the child out of the vehicle and her nails are red.

At Jordan's initial meeting with Mark Hanna, the second hand on the clock in the background remains motionless.

Exit signs in a New Zealand meeting room are in the US red-and-white style, rather than the New Zealand green-and-white design.

The supposed meeting in Geneva is unmistakably set in London. When the car draws up outside the building, the street signs match those used in the City of London (the black Corporation of London emblem on the left-hand side). Additionally, the vehicles are suddenly driving on the left, rather than on the right as they were in the previous scene.

Belfort asserts that he takes Adderall to remain focused. Adderall only came onto the market in 1996 and did not become available as a generic until 2002. Since the film covers the period from 1987 to 1999, calling them "prescription amphetamine tablets to concentrate" would be a more accurate description.

Pulling the cyclic pitch control, which sits in front of the pilot, will not halt a rapid descent. That function belongs to the collective lever, positioned by the pilot's thigh.

Towards the end of the film, Jordan places his daughter into a late‑model R129 Mercedes SL500 (either 1999 or 2000) to take her away from Naomi. Not only is that car anachronistic for the film’s timeframe, but the way he engages the handbrake while reversing — pulling it up with his right hand — is incorrect for this model. On the R129 the handbrake is a foot‑operated lever located to the left of the brake pedal and is depressed with the left foot.

Belfort maintains he did not renege on his agreement with the SEC, and the alleged speech "they will have to call in the National Guard" never took place.

When Jerry tells Jordan that his sole role will be to bring in clients, he adds that Jordan will not take on any other duties until he has passed his Series 7 exam. However, to represent a securities firm with the aim of soliciting clients, one is required to have already passed that exam.

When Saurel and Rugrat are arrested in a Miami nightclub, a green-and-white Miami‑Dade County Police Department patrol car is visible outside. However, the officers at the scene are City of Miami personnel dressed in navy‑blue uniforms. Miami‑Dade County officers normally wear brown trousers with a taupe shirt, while City of Miami patrol cars are blue-and-white. City of Miami officers would not be operating a Miami‑Dade County patrol car.

Rao's is so exclusive that table allocations are made in increments to those the owner knows personally. The only way outsiders such as Belfort and Dietl can eat there is if they are invited by someone who "owns" a table.

Contrary to what Belfort claims and how the film portrays it, the Italian Navy's special forces unit COMSUBIN is not sent to respond to Mayday calls from civilian craft; such duties fall to the Coastguard.

The initial arrangements could have been dealt with by Belfort and Saurel by telephone; Belfort needn't have travelled to Geneva.

When the group is preparing to smuggle the cash to Switzerland, Jordan claims that Brad's girlfriend holds a Swiss passport because she was born in Switzerland. However, being born on Swiss soil does not automatically grant Swiss citizenship; at least one parent must hold Swiss nationality.

Yet, when she speaks with the Swiss banker he asks whether she is Swiss‑Slovakian or Swiss‑Slovenian, which establishes that she is Swiss — or at the very least that she possesses dual Swiss nationality.

Belfort's private jet did not travel to the site of the boating accident. Belfort says that, after the rescue, he learnt the jet had crashed shortly after take-off; fortunately the pilot, the sole person on board, survived.

This should not be regarded as a factual error but rather as a dramatisation choice or a creative licence exercised by the writer(s) and/or the director.

The original Forbes magazine piece on Belfort (14 October 1991) was NOT titled 'The Wolf of Wall Street'; it was titled 'Steaks, Stocks -- What's the Difference?'. In fact, Belfort was never known as 'The Wolf of Wall Street' during his career. The article's author, Roula Khalaf, did describe him as a 'twisted Robin Hood who takes money from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers', which he complains about to Teresa. However, Belfort was actually angered not because he was portrayed negatively, but because Khalaf exposed the misconduct at Stratton Oakmont and its use of the 'pump-and-dump' technique.

This should not be regarded as a factual error but rather as a dramatisation choice or artistic licence taken by the writer(s) and/or director.

According to Belfort, there were no midget tosses during his tenure. Danny Porush, meanwhile, said he and others discussed organising midget tosses.

This ought not to be treated as a factual error but rather as a matter of dramatic licence or creative liberty taken by the writer(s) and/or director.

Jordan tells Donnie that you cannot get drunk on non-alcoholic beer because it contains no alcohol. That is not entirely accurate. Non-alcoholic beer does contain trace amounts of alcohol; by law it must not exceed 0.5% alcohol by volume.

This should not be regarded as an error in characterisation, but rather a common misconception.

In the photograph of Jordan with his father at Fenway Park shown at 1:48, the scene is intended to take place in the late 1970s/early 1980s, yet in the background there are seats atop the "Green Monster" (the left-field wall), which were not installed until 2003.

The face of Leonardo DiCaprio's stunt double can be seen after Jordan tumbles down the stairs.

When Donnie urinates on the subpoena in the bin, a distinct line can be seen where the stream abruptly disappears just above the rim, revealing it to be a visual effect added in post-production.

DiCaprio is plainly seen to be staging his fall in the swimming pool by deliberately "twisting" his ankle.

The man introducing Belfort at the Auckland seminar — played by Belfort himself — doesn't speak with a New Zealand accent.