Martin Scorsese Reveals the Kind of Content He’ll Never Consider as Cinema: “It’s almost like AI making a film”
American and Italian movie director Martin Scorsese is a predominant figure of the New Hollywood era and has given the world some of the best movies of all time. His 1967 directorial debut film Who’s That Knocking at My Door? premiered at the Chicago Film Festival. The independent drama movie was also the first starring role for actor Harvey Keitel.
Martin Scorsese made a lot of films with Robert De Niro including the 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, for which Scorsese was awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes. In a recent interview with British GQ, the director shared his views about the modern Hollywood film industry and how recent movies are having an adverse impact on our culture.
Martin Scorsese Revealed The Content He Doesn’t Label As Cinema
Martin Scorsese has been in show business for more than six decades and his filmmaking style contains low to no use of artificial intelligence even in some of his recent movies. His filmmaking style mostly sees the use of slow motion and graphic depictions of violence, all of which can be seen in his 1973 crime film Mean Streets.
Being a Hollywood veteran director, Scorsese refuses to label comic book movies as cinema. In the interview with British GQ, the director expressed his disapproval of such movies, saying:
“No, I don’t want to say it. But what I mean is that it’s manufactured content. It’s almost like AI making a film. And that doesn’t mean that you don’t have incredible directors and special effects people doing beautiful artwork. But what does it mean? What do these films, what will it give you? Aside from a kind of consummation of something and then eliminating it from your mind, your whole body, you know? So what is it giving you?”
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The question the No Direction Home director has raised gives the entire entertainment industry something to ruminate about as they bring forward some major concerns of the industry.
Martin Scorsese Still Has Faith In Some Directors
Despite his disappointment in the recent industry trends, Martin Scorsese has said that he has faith in a couple of directors who are apparently the flag-bearers of independent cinema. In the same interview with British GQ, he said:
“It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides. Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got. Go out there and do it. Go reinvent. Don’t complain about it. But it’s true because we’ve got to save cinema.”
Although Christopher Nolan directed The Dark Knight trilogy, his contributions to uplifting film culture cannot be overlooked. Scorsese is an acclaimed advocate for film preservation and restoration, and his most recent epic Killers of the Flower Moon stars his longtime collaborator Robert De Niro and other A-list actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone is set to be released in October 2023.
Source: British GQ
