Cinema has reached the end of the road
In a new interview with GQ magazine, Martin Scorsese said that major studios no longer support auteur voices because they see lower risk and better returns in releasing series of films.
Charso Press: According to Hollywood Reporter, this veteran director, who played a leading role in the cinema industry by making successful films at the box office such as “Taxi Driver” and “Downtown Streets”, is now not happy with the impact of high-budget films and serials on cinema, and in an interview before After the release of his latest movie “Full Moon Killers”, he told “GQ” magazine: “Well, the movie industry has reached the end of the road. In other words, the industry that I was a part of and we’re talking about 50 years ago. It’s like asking someone who was making silent films in 1970, ‘What do you think happened?’
Scorsese added that the major studios, preferring to sell easier-to-sell popcorn films with the potential for more sequels, are no longer interested in supporting individual voices who They don’t have personal feelings or personal thoughts and ideas and express their personal feelings with a big budget.”
Noting that superhero movies that rely heavily on special effects, or what he refers to as “constructed content,” are no longer representative of cinema, the veteran Hollywood director said, “It’s almost as if artificial intelligence make a movie That’s not to say you don’t have great directors and special effects guys doing beautiful art. But what does this mean? What do these movies give you? Apart from kind of perfecting something and then removing it from your mind and your whole body, then what does it give you?”
“I realized that if I had to do it again,” Scorsese said of his 2002 feud with now-imprisoned and infamous “Gangs of New York” producer Harvey Weinstein over the amount of time and budget allocated to the project. I can’t make a movie. If that was the only way I could make a film, I would have had to stop because the results were not satisfactory. Sometimes it was very hard and I couldn’t move and I would die. So I decided to end it.”
He also said about the 2006 Oscar-winning film “Departed”: “Warner Brothers wanted one of the two main actors (Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon) to survive, and their main goal was to make a series of films, not a moral issue. related to the life or death of a person”.
The new movie “Full Moon Killers” will be released on October 20. Produced by Martin Scorsese, which had its world premiere in the out-of-competition section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, it is based on the best-selling non-fiction book written by David Green with the same title and a screenplay by Scorsese and Eric Roth. The story of several murders in the Osage oil region of Oklahoma in the 1920s.
The subtitle of the book is The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, while the movie focuses mainly on what happens in Oklahoma.
The 206-minute film premiered at Cannes to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike, making the film one of the early frontrunners for the 2023-2024 film awards season. In this $200 million film, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhott, the niece of a powerful rancher named William Hill, played by Robert De Niro. Lily Goldstone also plays the role of DiCaprio’s wife.