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Martin Scorcese - Dougan Andy

Description: Author: Dougan Andy / Genre: Biography / Martin Scorsese is one of the elite band of filmmakers whose originality and craftsmanship has influenced a generation of film directors. His collaborations with Robert De Niro and skill in telling stories sets him ... more

Martin Scorcese - Dougan Andy ... apart as one of the all time original directors.

Newest Review: ... took note of the director and showcased Taxi Driver on the West Coast.It was the violent nature of ... more

... the film and not its intelligence that was selling the film though, much to the director’s confusing disappointment. I personally loved Taxi driver and the ultra wacko Travis Bickle (De`niro). Vietnam freaked out most of America and I suppose there are a few of these loners hovering on disappear with a gun in their shorts. When you watch the flick, you notice how Scorcese likes to have just Bickle in the shot to give him the feel of total loneliness. ...more

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Martin Scorcese - Dougan Andy: "You made me clamp your f**g brains for Tommy M" (1310 words)
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ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME. No American director has been more influenced by his roots than this guy. He’s spent thirty years explaining his culture on screen in his brilliant movies. His films are what it means to be Catholic and repressed in America.Now im not a Catholic, but I feel your pain father. With the usual immigrant pedigree, Scorcese slotted into his Little Italy New York stereotype as a kid. The book details his faith in his God and flirtation with the priesthood. But it would be the very gangsters and low life’s he writes and portrays that will steer him away from the church, be it the one of organized crime or God. Being ...

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