Scorsese talks cinema & SINATRA!
On the eve of Shutter Island's U.K. release, Short List have published a substantial interview with Martin Scorsese (found via The Playlist) in which the veteran director re-tells a topical conclusion he came to with his Taxi Driver & Raging Bull screenwriter Paul Schrader recently;
You know, we took cinema seriously." Were afraid that for the younger people today, cinema is just something to be seen for an hour or two, a lot of noise and forgotten about. If blockbusters overbalance the marketplace, were going to lose something culturally. Thats very dangerous.Scorsese's comments come in the week that Alice in Wonderland, a movie that was definitely something to forget about and I can't imagine ever seeing it again; has crossed the $233 million barrier worldwide in less than seven days and a big budget Warner Bros. tentpole re-imagining the life of Leonardo Da Vinci as biblical code-cracking demon slayer is greenlit. I guess that's the kind movie he is talking about? Aside from a nostalgic evocation of 70's cinema, Scorsese also discusses his Frank Sinatra biopic which he claims is still at the writing stages and "will have three or four different Sinatras. Younger. Older. Middle-aged. Very old. You cut back and forth in time and you do it through the music". Which to me hints at a multiple actors/personality musical biopic such as the Dylan flick I'm Not There. Possibly or possibly not coincidentally, Scorsese names Johnny Depp and George Clooney amongst a shortlist of actors he would love to work with. Add his frequent muse DiCaprio - and there's his old blue eyes biopic, right?