Martin Scorsese Urges Young Filmmakers to Reinvent Cinema in Streaming Age: ‘Content Is Something You Eat and Throw Away’ https://t.co/euSaCUtI6t
— Variety (@Variety) October 7, 2023
– Martin Scorsese had a chat with Edgar Wright at the BFI London Film Festival.
– When Edgar calls him the spokesperson for the current state of Cinema, Scorsese laughed and said, “I don’t want to be the last line of defense.”
– On Modern Tech being used by filmmakers: Scorsese said that though with that new technology comes more freedom, it should also cause young filmmakers to “rethink what you want to say and how you want to say it.” He added, “Ideally, I hope — I hesitate to use this word — ‘serious’ film could still be made with this new technology and this new world we’re apart of.”
– Still wants serious movies in theaters again:
“I’m afraid the franchise films will be taking over the theaters,” he said. “I always ask the theater owners to create a space where younger people would say, ‘We want to see this new film,’ which is not a franchise film, in a theater and share with everybody around them. So that they want to go to the theater, that it’s something inviting that doesn’t get them to say they could see it at home. Because the experience of seeing a film with other people is really still the key, I think. But I’m not sure that can be easily achieved at this point.”
– on “Content”: “Content is something you eat and throw away … But if you want to have an experience that can enrich your life, it’s different.”
