Scorsese is sick of all this Hollywood crap
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Ok, maybe he didn't use those words, exactly, but that was the gist of Martin Scorsese's comments yesterday at the Morocco Film Festival. At the Festival to
promote its new exchange program with the Tribeca Film Institute, Scorsese
told reporters that, as he gets older, he gets less interested in
making the "big pictures demanded by Hollywood studios." Instead, he
pointed to No Direction Home, his recent, critically acclaimed documentary about Bob Dylan, as the sort of project on which he'd prefer to focus.According to Scorsese, his upcoming adaptation of The Silence - a novel about Portuguese missionaries in 17th century Japan - will be one of his last efforts for Hollywood. Huh. It'll be interesting if this is simply journalists making a lot of a throwaway comment, or if it is in fact an indication of a new focus for the director.
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11-14-2005 @ 11:55AM
nilblogette said...
I certainly hope he is done with Hollywood, because I haven't liked his movies nearly as much since he started going mainstream, big-budget, and Oscar-driven.
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11-14-2005 @ 1:00PM
Peter Nellhaus said...
Of interest is that there was a Japanese film version of this novel done in 1971 by Masahiro Shinoda, titled Chinmoku. Shinoda is probably best known for Double Suicide. When one considers the spiraling budgets, number of producers, compromises and time from script to screen, I am not surprised that Scorsese is talking about a change in the way he makes films.
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11-14-2005 @ 5:11PM
tim t. said...
well i'm glad to see marty thinking of leaving hollywood... but, i'm glad that he's doing a story based in 17th century japan. you know he won't give us a piece of crap like "the last samurai". and i have no hope w/ memories of a geisha either...
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