The morality of the gangster community is a theme that runs throughout Martin Scorsese's films. does this make him an auteur?
Speaker- Martin Scorsese is an American films maker and has made many well known films. Anyone who watches one of Martin Scorsese's films will recognise a similarity in his portrayal of Italian American gangsters and the morality they live by. If you know a bit about Scorsese's childhood you also know that it is bits of his personal life integrated into his films. His use of strong violence contrasted with scenes of love and classical music creates a binary opposition for his films. This can easily describe Scorsese as an auteur. For a director to be considered as an auteur they must imclude "distinguishable personality of the director" in the films and "someone who brings something genuinely personal to his subject instead of producing a tasteful, accurate but lifeless rendering of the original material" (Item 7)
Projector- Trailer of Goodfellas 1990- 2m 59sec
Speaker- In this trailer of Goodfellas you can clearly see the themes of the narrative which are crime and violence. From this we see some of the morals that the gangsters live by with one of Scorsese's common technique of a voice over, in this case from character 'Henry Hill', "Everybody knows if you step out of line, you get wacked". From this we see one of the morals that these gangsters live by and also their own colloquial language. Scorsese wanted to depict the violence as "cold, unfeeling and horrible" (Item 5) but to ensure an R certificate rating he had to remove 10 frames of blood. Watching Scorsese narratives today such as Goodfellas and Casino you can appreciate the way in which both reflect and question the prevailing morals of the Mafia.
In Goodfellas the gangsters get progressively smaller and less troubled by the morals that they have always lived by. Goodfellas is about the 'smalltimers'. Where as Scorsese's 1995 narrative Casino consists of his most favourite themes of violence, greed and hubris. Casino goes above the street corners of New York and into the inner workings of America's gang corruption. Casino is considered a weighty film, an "anthropological exploration of how the mob lost their westernmost outpost" (Item 16) which in comparason to Goodfellas gives the narrative more scope and depth. Scorsese's depiction of Italian American gangsters all comes from his own experiences as a child. Scorsese grew up in little Italy, a neighborhood that was run by gangsters, he saw first hand what they were really like and that is how he portrays them in his films. Scorsese's "Tradition of quality" (Item 7) makes him an auteur.
Projector- Scene from The Departed (how far in it is&how long the clip is)
Speaker- (Give detail on specific scene) As you can see from this scene The Departed differs from Scorsese's other classic American gangster films. It is still a film about the Mafia, the difference is that the narrative is filmed from the perspective of charcater Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading the viewer to gain the preferred reading and side with Costigan, who is a member of the Boston Police force.
Projector- Trailer of Goodfellas 1990- 2m 59sec
Speaker- In this trailer of Goodfellas you can clearly see the themes of the narrative which are crime and violence. From this we see some of the morals that the gangsters live by with one of Scorsese's common technique of a voice over, in this case from character 'Henry Hill', "Everybody knows if you step out of line, you get wacked". From this we see one of the morals that these gangsters live by and also their own colloquial language. Scorsese wanted to depict the violence as "cold, unfeeling and horrible" (Item 5) but to ensure an R certificate rating he had to remove 10 frames of blood. Watching Scorsese narratives today such as Goodfellas and Casino you can appreciate the way in which both reflect and question the prevailing morals of the Mafia.
In Goodfellas the gangsters get progressively smaller and less troubled by the morals that they have always lived by. Goodfellas is about the 'smalltimers'. Where as Scorsese's 1995 narrative Casino consists of his most favourite themes of violence, greed and hubris. Casino goes above the street corners of New York and into the inner workings of America's gang corruption. Casino is considered a weighty film, an "anthropological exploration of how the mob lost their westernmost outpost" (Item 16) which in comparason to Goodfellas gives the narrative more scope and depth. Scorsese's depiction of Italian American gangsters all comes from his own experiences as a child. Scorsese grew up in little Italy, a neighborhood that was run by gangsters, he saw first hand what they were really like and that is how he portrays them in his films. Scorsese's "Tradition of quality" (Item 7) makes him an auteur.
Projector- Scene from The Departed (how far in it is&how long the clip is)
Speaker- (Give detail on specific scene) As you can see from this scene The Departed differs from Scorsese's other classic American gangster films. It is still a film about the Mafia, the difference is that the narrative is filmed from the perspective of charcater Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading the viewer to gain the preferred reading and side with Costigan, who is a member of the Boston Police force.
