After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing
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[on Leonardo DiCaprio] Leo has a similar sensibility to me. I'm 30 years older than him, but I think we see the world the same way, meaning he feels comfortable with the characters I've dealt with over the years in movies. But also with Leo it's always an interesting process of discovery. And I don't say that in a facile way either...
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Trivia:
Of the three films he's been trying to make since the mid-1970s, he has done two:
The Last Temptation of Christ and
Gangs of New York. The third film, a biopic of Dean Martin called "Dino", has been on hiatus at Warner Brothers since the late 1990s. Scorsese has a very specific all A-list cast in mind, probably why it has yet to be produced...
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Trademark:
The use of the color red and red lighting: Beginning credits of Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Raging Bull, the Color of Money, GoodFellas and Casino. Bar scene from Mean Streets, the colored scene from Raging Bull, "What do you mean I'm funny?" scene from GoodFellas, the opera scene from the Departed, the lighting in Howard Hughes' screening room and many others.
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