Martin Scorsese SLAMS modern movies – ‘The cinema I grew up with is GONE’
Martin Scorsese, director of Goodfellas, has slammed modern movies, implying they have killed off cinema.
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The Oscar-winning director is best known for his lengthy gangster epics from Goodfellas and Gangs of New York to The Wolf of Wall Street.
In a recent interview with the Associated Press, talking about his new film Silence, the Hollywood legend lamented over the film industry.
He said: “Cinema is gone. The cinema I grew up with and that I’m making, it’s gone.”
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The 74-year-old continued: “The theatre will always be there for that communal experience, there’s no doubt.
“But what kind of experience is it going to be? Is it always going to be a theme-park movie?
“I sound like an old man, which I am.”
Scorsese added: “The big screen for us in the ’50s, you go from Westerns to Lawrence of Arabia to the special experience of 2001 in 1968.
“The experience of seeing Vertigo and The Searchers in VistaVision.
Recently the Goodfellas writer revealed he had dangerous secret Mafia interviews hidden from the FBI.
Scorsese concluded: “It should matter to your life. Unfortunately the latest generations don’t know that it mattered so much.”
He also complained about director’s “over-reliance on superficial techniques”.
Ironically the director has just made a deal with Netflix for 2019’s The Irishman, which will reunite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and include CGI de-ageing technology.
