Martin Scorsese, super genius

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Anyone ever notice Scorsese's similar writing styles in his movies, even ones he isn't credited as having written?

GoodFellas: Business bad? F*ck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F*ck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? F*ck you, pay me.

The Departed: You accuse me once, I put up with it. You accuse me twice... I quit. You pressure me to fear for my life and I will put a f*cking bullet in your head as if you were anybody else. Okay?

Gangs of New York: Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see.

Casino: No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And if you beat him with a gun, you better kill him, because he'll keep comin' back and back until one of you is dead.

I don't know, just something interesting I noticed.

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I did not notice that at all. Pretty cool find!

heh....

action, consequence... action, consequence.

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Looks like it's official: after a fifteen year break (1995's Casino), Scorsese and DeNiro are re-teaming for their ninth collaboration. Bobby D will star in Marty's The Irishman, adapted from the book I Hear You Paint Houses, based on the life of Frank Sheeran, a Labor Union official turned hitman in the Bufalino Crime Family and ultimately as muscle for Jimmy Hoffa. On his deathbed in 2004, Sheeran signed a confession as to his involvement in Hoffa's murder and getting rid of the body.

No start date yet and other possible cast members are still just rumors, but after Scorsese finishes Hugo Cabret production could begin sometime in the second half of 2011.

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And for those who have missed it, Scorsese is currently finishing Hugo Cabret, adapted from the Caldecott Medal-winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, which is so heavily illustrated it is almost more of a graphic novel than what you usually get in an illustrated children's book. The book is a fantasy based in part on the true story of French filmmaker Georges Méličs, set at the turn of the 20th century, and his collection of mechanical wind-up figures called automata discovered by a young boy.

Scorsese's movie is live action, though in 3D, with a cast that includes Ben Kingsley as Méličs, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Richard Griffiths, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sacha Baron Cohen and with the two leads played by child actors Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) and Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass). The screenplay is adapted by John Logan (The Aviator, The Last Samurai), cinematography by Robert Richardson, and Johnny Depp is one of the producers.

At this point, Hugo Cabret is scheduled for an early December 2011 release.

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Ranking Scorcese films...

1. Cape Fear (1991)
2. GoodFellas (1990)
3. Taxi Driver (1976)
4. The Departed (2006)
5. Casino (1995)
6. Raging Bull (1980)
7. After Hours (1985)
8. Gangs Of New York (2002)
9. The Aviator (2004)
10. Bringing Out The Dead (1998)

All of these 10 films (except for Bringing Out The Dead & The Aviator) are masterpieces. I love Cape Fear especially for Scorsese's direction and De Niro's excellent performance.

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It only took over 100 years to make a film about Melies

I'm quite intrigued to see this, Scorsese just earned some points with me

HUGO

While on the surface what is ostensibly a movie for children filmed in 3D seems about as unlikely a match for the talents of Martin Scorsese as one could imagine, the result is quite charming. Following the basic plot of the award-winning book, Hugo is sort of Cinema Paradiso by way of Charles Dickens and Jules Verne, revealing a cinematic Secret Garden. For somebody who is as devoted to the act of film preservation and the magic and legacy of the movies, Scorsese is actually exactly the right director for this material. I found it all quite enchanting and a constant visual treat. Hardly up there with his own masterpieces, but very much worth seeing. Though as with virtually every single project that has ever used the process, the 3D was just about wholly unnecessary. But, whatareyougonnado? So Scorsese and Hitchcock both tried it once.

GRADE: B+

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Yeah, I'm starting to think the early trailers were wildly misleading. The first one I saw (which I saw often) made it look utterly disposable; just a kid running around in some steampunk distribution venue with inept adults running into cakes and whatnot. I was stunned to see Scorsese's name attached, but based on the early word some of those promotional materials gave off entirely the wrong vibe. Glad to hear it.

I also got to see a nice, new, restored print of Scorsese's Taxi Driver last week, in celebration of its thirty-fifth anniversary. Just as striking and odd and shocking and effective and brilliant as ever.


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You lucky sumbitch. I hope that gets about round here at some point and, less likely, that I'll be able to see it.

I heard something about Scorsese directing a movie version of the book "The Snowman" (don't know the exact English translation) by Jo Nesbř. I've read some of the books in that series and they're really great, so if Scorsese's directing I can only look forward to it.

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Yup, this is yet another potential Scorsese project in development.

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I think my rankings of Scorsese films highly differ from most anyone else

1. Shutter Island -
2.The Departed -
3.Goodfellas -
4.Hugo -
5.Raging Bull +
6.The Big Shave
7.Taxi Driver --
8. Gangs of New York --

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Ranked:

Taxi Driver

Goodfellas

Casino

Raging Bull

Cape Fear

The Departed

Mean Streets

Hugo

Certainly one of my favorite directors.

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He definitely is a genius, I loved Goodfellas and I digged the departed as well. I've got to watch Casnio and all the other greats of his.

Martin Scorsese: master and commander of cinema.

Casino above Raging Bull...every intersecting that!