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Vu’s seminars were filled with ethnically diverse crowds, buoyed by Vu’s own immigrant rags-to-riches tale and looking to fast-track their own American Dream.

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Fourteen or so years later Tom Vu exploded onto the late-night infomercial circuit, surrounded by bikini-clad women, driving a Rolls Royce, and confronting the viewer: “You want to be wealthy like this? Like I am? Well, you need to come to my seminar!” Vu’s free seminars promoted not-free seminars, where he would charge attendees up to $15,000 to learn his million-dollar real estate secrets- practices which mainly consisted of buying out homeowners drowning in debt, and flipping the houses for a quick profit. Tuan Ahn Vu was a Vietnamese immigrant who arrived in America in 1975 and worked his way into the real estate market. And as you can see from the video below, Jordan Belfort - Martin Scorsese’s iteration of Jordan Belfort, at any rate - almost certainly bit his infomercial game from Vu, right down to the helicopter and the yacht crawling with bikini models. Michael Bay’s film posits that maybe Wahlberg’s Danny Lugo DID attend a seminar by 90s infomercial millionaire Tom Vu. The respective non-fiction origins of The Wolf Of Wall Street and Pain & Gain led many a Twitter pundit to quip things like “Mark Wahlberg's Pain & Gain character probably attended a seminar by Jordan Belfort.” While that’s most likely chronologically impossible, there is an explicit connection between the two characters. Scarfaceis one thing, but holy shit, these people were REAL. It’s part of what makes the factual basis of the events so delicious. It’s a mindset that is portrayed in both films as cartoonishly criminal, completely over the top.

If you don’t have the courage to go after your dreams by any means necessary, you deserve to fail. Playing by the rules is for losers take what you want the world is yours, like Tony Montana said. Two of 2013’s best films couldn't have more disparate pedigrees, but both spring from a shared bit of DNA, birthed and metastasized from the late 80s ethos that you’re entitled as an American to whatever you can get your hands on.