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\nMartin Scorsese: \u201cIt should be one cinematic culture, you know? But right now everything is being fragmented and broken up in a way.” https:\/\/t.co\/3CxuZMSc60<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Variety (@Variety) September 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
– Rewrote his most recent movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” as he didn’t like the narrative: <\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys,\u201d Scorsese told Time. \u201cMeaning I was taking the approach from the outside in, which concerned me.\u201d <\/p>\n
– Thinks our fractured society is being reflected in fractured film culture: <\/p>\n
\u201cIt should be one cinematic culture, you know? But right now everything is being fragmented and broken up in a way,\u201d he said, alluding to streaming platforms changing moviegoing habits. He noted that when he was growing up \u201cnot 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\u2019s what was playing.\u201d <\/p>\n
I remember Spielberg bemoaning the same fractured film culture a few years ago<\/a>: <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always devoted myself to our movie-going community \u2014 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\u2019s the magic we experience when we go out to see a movie or a play or a concert or a comedy act. We don\u2019t 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\u2019t feel like complete strangers anymore. We\u2019ve 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\u2019t 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\u2019s why, of all the things that have the potential to unite us, none is more powerful than the communal experience of the arts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n