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• Re: scorsese's range - halfnote 21:01:00 09/01/05 (0)
  In Reply to: scorsese's range posted by PhilNYC on September 1, 2005 at 07:34:44:

  Hmmm. I'd have to say that "homage" films like Cape Fear and The Color of Money do not count. Neither was as good as the original either. The fact that Scorcese had an avid interest in the band, as almost every graduate of the 1960's did, does not enhance his reputation as a film maker. There was nothing about this documentary that made it unusual or original, but I do like his selection of subject matter. I believe he is currently at work on a documentary, not so coincidentally, about Bob Dylan.

  Scorcese was a seminary student before he became a film director. And The Last Temptation was a daring film, though not a very good one, from where I sit.

  I didn't see After Hours. In New York Stories, he only had a short segment, as you know.

  But I would have to maintain that his main body of work, the films upon which his reputation is made -- Taxi Driver, Means Streets,
  Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Casino, even the King of Comedy -- have at their heart a fixation on the brutish side of modern civilized life, individuals who, due to the pressures and complexities of their milieu, have become twisted monsters of a kind, and who have abodoned the mores and restraints that guide the rest of us. It's not a trivial subject, but one which his films treat with a certain redundancy.

  I'm not saying he's a BAD director. But I would not put him in the pantheon that includes Kubrick, Hitchcock, or Fellini, and a very short list of others.
  
  

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