Includes Scorsese's Amex spot. Clip from TCM's Scorsese On Scorsese www.imdb.com/title/tt0440780/ available on the Departed DVD www.amazon.com/dp/B000M5AJQS/
Wouldn’t the antagonist be the cake? Considering that’s the representation of the birthday, which is the representation of life and aging, which eventually results in death?
Imagine being a commercial director and having to direct Martin Scorsese. In my head he would constantly tell you how to do it better, sounds like an exhausting but interesting job
Honestly I don’t know if he would. He has great respect for actors and when he is one (and not in his own film) he’s probably just being an actor, knowing that a know-it-all actor telling the director what to do would cause a lot of trouble on set and needlessly extend production time. Unless he’s also producer, then there’s a loophole…
He absolutely wouldn't, he's a professional who knows that set time is extremely precious, he doesn't have all day and he's there to have fun in the actor's role. Have been in the entertainment industry all my life and those people are *everything* but their stereotypes. Co-managing a multi-million dollars budget while directing a bunch of hypersensitive people (by definition, I'm an actor too sometimes, that's how it is) and super-perfectionists everywhere requires as many seconds of your perfectly focused attention as you could ever get. These people work 15, sometimes up to 20 hours a day, for 2, 3, 6 months in a row, maybe even a year. Contrary to actors (who mostly are like that anyway) they can't come there late or anything. Trust me, being a director at this level is literally the furthest thing from the snot-nosed artsy author stereotype going 'round bossing people randomly. The industry is a lot more simple than people think... it's just insanely high standard, really. The essentials about making movies and acting remain the exact same, if you're a talented actor or director out of Hollywood, you can be a talented one in Hollywood, if you survive the pressure and the networking. That's really it.
0:50 "Too literal, too violent, too metaphorical, too dark" prove that you can't please all critics, the guy who acted in this commercial with Marty sure felt lucky.
"I mean it was very easy to do because basically you gotta...ughpff...otherwise..y-you...ugh...otherwise you know i-it's just...there...oh god you take your...take myself too...the word is seriously I guess, but you know the damn thing is you gotta me serious about making a picture." - Martin Scorsese
@@jackmace6531 I think the reason he was stammering is because he realized what he was saying seemed to confirm the stereotype about himself caricatured in the commercial, that he's a somewhat pretentious perfectionist who's too serious about his own movies, and he tried to dance around it before finally just accepting it and embracing it at the end.
he's one of those types that has to stammer around in interviews instead of just getting to the point presumably he's different on set or it must be a goddamn nightmare to work under him
nah photographers are pretentious trash. every "photographer" ive met posts pictures of trees with every editing effect they can muster on create pro. film makers arent just glorified photographers. they have to be writers, actors, and leaders. ofc the camera is there too but its useless without the imagination.
completely untrue.. your cinematographer perhaps should be.. but as a director, you should know drama, conflict, psychology, society, human nature, music, literature, rhythm, and have an abundance of sympathy, and finally have a vision.. if you have all that.. you may start without knowing a jot of photography
That's dumb. Dogmatic mindsets like that are driven by ego. Any true film maker will tell you that to be a filmmaker, is simply to have the drive to make a film, that's the only thing that defines a filmmaker.
He's got a great sense of humor I thought I was completely done but then he drops the line " how would you like to be five again? " 🤣 Absolutely love this 😂
Orangeflava man I've been living under a rock apparently.... It's like I've just discovered oil!! Do you recall the exact year you saw this? Looks like early 2000s to me
A lot of space in the frame is left above characters heads, I think this is to imply a sense of ‘thought’ as thoughts are often depicted as occurring above people’s heads - it’s like there’s an internal dialog happening as well as the words spoken on screen
Photo Developer: "Here are your photos sir." Christopher Nolan: "But they haven't been taken yet." Photo Developer: "They have, that's why I'm giving them to you." Christopher Nolan: "The payment is today, but the photos won't be taken until tomorrow, these weren't developed until yesterday and we've already had this conversation many times before." Photo Developer: "What."
Truth be told this is the first time I’ve ever heard Scorseses voice and I couldn’t help but think of Mr Sikes from “Shark Tale” And looking further I found that he actually WAS the voice for Mr Sikes…Learn new stuff every day.
Beginners: this advice my not be for us. I tried to *begin* filmmaking like this. I didn't turn up five works in ten years. I'll now begin however I see fit, and *get to* approach filmmaking seriously one day.
I find humorous and sincere how his realization is that for more off-putting that being meticulous in a craft is, at the end it's very important for it to be taken seriously (when making something, you need the drive and focus, inside a method or careful process). Even, the commercial about this is, most likely refined as much as it need it, despite being satirical and commercial.
