Martin Scorsese: “It should be one cinematic culture, you know? But right now everything is being fragmented and broken up in a way.” https://t.co/3CxuZMSc60
— Variety (@Variety) September 12, 2023
– Rewrote his most recent movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” as he didn’t like the narrative:
“After a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys,” Scorsese told Time. “Meaning I was taking the approach from the outside in, which concerned me.”
– Thinks our fractured society is being reflected in fractured film culture:
“It should be one cinematic culture, you know? But right now everything is being fragmented and broken up in a way,” he said, alluding to streaming platforms changing moviegoing habits. He noted that when he was growing up “not everybody liked musicals. Not everybody liked westerns. Not everybody liked gangster films or noirs. But at the time, we just went to the movies, and that’s what was playing.”
I remember Spielberg bemoaning the same fractured film culture a few years ago:
I’ve always devoted myself to our movie-going community — movie-going, as in leaving our homes to go to a theatre, and community, meaning a feeling of fellowship with others who have left their homes and are seated with us. In a movie theatre, you watch movies with the significant others in your life, but also in the company of strangers. That’s the magic we experience when we go out to see a movie or a play or a concert or a comedy act. We don’t know who all these people are sitting around us, but when the experience makes us laugh or cry or cheer or contemplate, and then when the lights come up and we leave our seats, the people with whom we head out into the real world don’t feel like complete strangers anymore. We’ve become a community, alike in heart and spirit, or at any rate alike in having shared for a couple of hours a powerful experience. That brief interval in a theatre doesn’t erase the many things that divide us: race or class or belief or gender or politics. But our country and our world feel less divided, less fractured, after a congregation of strangers have laughed, cried, jumped out their seats together, all at the same time. Art asks us to be aware of the particular and the universal, both at once. And that’s why, of all the things that have the potential to unite us, none is more powerful than the communal experience of the arts.”
