The esteemed director sat down with Stephen Colbert and a packed Newark crowd for Montclair Film Festival's filmmaker tribute.
Director Martin Scorsese was the guest of honor Friday at the Montclair Film Festival's filmmaker tribute at NJPAC in Newark.
” the 1980 film starring De Niro in his Oscar-winning turn as boxer Jake LaMotta. Scorsese was named best director in 2007 for best picture winner “The murders, collectively known as the Reign of Terror, were carried out by white locals who wanted to get their hands on Osage inheritance. Members of the Osage Nation had become some of the most wealthy people in the country when oil deposits were found on Osage land.
Originally, DiCaprio, who is also an executive producer of the film, was supposed to play investigator Thomas White. Later, he told Scorsese he wanted to play Burkhart instead, so the script had to get a complete overhaul. Scenes were constantly being changed and rewritten.“Just her face is extraordinary,” Scorsese told Colbert. “What I mean by that is made for cinema.
He recalled when people left “GoodFellas” screenings because they weren’t quiet amenable to mob comedy .“The darkness, I think, is important, because for me it’s always about, I guess, where I come from,” he said of his New York upbringing. “I knew a lot of people who were actually very decent people who were forced to live bad lives and so I wonder what we are as human beings ...
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