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The Big Shave

  • 19671967
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  • 6m
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7.0/10
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The Big Shave (1967)
ShortDramaHorror
In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
IMDb RATING
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7.5K
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    • Martin Scorsese
    • Martin Scorsese
    • Peter Bernuth
    • Martin Scorsese
    • Martin Scorsese
    • Peter Bernuth
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    • 28User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    The Big Shave (1967)
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    Peter Bernuth
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    • Trivia
      Scorsese thought of it as a film about the effects of the Vietnam war and considered it at one point ending it with stock footage from that war.
    • Crazy credits
      Whiteness - Herman Melville
    • Alternate versions
      Some prints allegedly contain a final title card connecting the film to the Vietnam War, though such prints are no longer in circulation, nor is it on the videocassette version.
    • Connections
      Featured in Scene by Scene: Martin Scorsese (1998)

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    7/10
    Early Scorsese shorts (inc. The Big Shave)
    When watching Martin Scorsese's first footsteps into film-making it occurs that only a very fortunate few might have experienced these cinematic nuggets before encountering the behemoth output he has since delivered. Made during his time at New York University, the three films serve as an indicator of what would follow with Scorsese at the helm of feature films such as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver in the coming ten years. Mutilation, straight- talking male buddies and ennui are themes honed in the Italian American's earliest works, Scorsese hallmarks easily identifiable for any self-respecting fan of American cinema viewing the films today.

    Influences we are readily familiar with thanks to documentaries such as My Voyage to Italy and his Personal Journey Through American Movies are boldly recognisable; from the incendiary Colonel Blimp hunting sequence aped with the use of home furnishings in What's a Nice Girl..., to the swift use of editing throughout that reminds us of Messieurs Godard and Truffaut (or should that be Monsieur Coutard?). Scorsese is known as a director who wears his influences on his sleeve and the beginnings of that trait are present even here. The Big Shave's less than subtle metaphor for America's self-destructiveness at war with Vietnam is indicative of the vitality of the New American Cinema's outlook, whilst exhibiting a flair for dark humour and a confident use of music that points to the revolutionary works that were to come.

    With these three short films Scorsese leaves an early legacy neither tentative or deliberately artsy, but confident and forthright, establishing an air of cool that has never left the director.
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      • October 1968 (United States)
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