But he was quite a tough and crazy guy.ĭEADLINE: Like the character De Niro played in Mean Streets? His younger brother, the black sheep in the family, I grew up right next to him in two apartments so he kind of half raised me. It built this whole thing about my brother’s keeper in me. My father would try to deal with some of it, he was a peacemaker. I saw men who were humiliated in their lives in that social context and I saw them break. We knew to do that in those other places. We didn’t make noise in front of them there were other places you could make noise. These guys were dressed better, but they were in front of a store that seemed to be serving coffee all the time but only to them. But I didn’t see much of a difference between them and a man who was running the grocery store, who didn’t want the kids in front of the grocery store. The ones who weren’t, you didn’t hang around. Just thugs, but a lot of those thugs I basically knew as people first. There were good, hardworking, decent guys but there were many people around who had money in the street, as they say, and who were involved in real street corner underworld activity. There are so many things I saw growing up…grown men in a male dominated world. It’s the human condition and that’s such a complicated question. MARTIN SCORSESE: But that character in Silence, he’s really going to try not to That’s a difference. All this began with the relationship between Harvey Keitel and De Niro’s characters in Mean Streets.
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I watched your films, from Silence to Mean Streets and wondered what events in your own life informed the depictions of guilt, faith, and cowardice of the imperfect male characters in these films? Like the interpreter in Silence who asks for confession to forgive his latest betrayal, knowing full well he’s going to do it again the next time he needs to save his own skin. The guilt pressed Lumet to make movies about men who summon the courage to stand up for what is right no matter the cost, like in 12 Angry Men.
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What is surprising here is how much of a struggle Scorsese and De Niro encountered on every movie they made together.ĭEADLINE: A documentary on fellow New York director Sidney Lumet traced how his filmmaking path was forged by watching soldiers pull a young girl onto a train to sexually abuse her, and when it was clear he might not survive an attempt to stop it, he did nothing. Martin Scorsese - "I Didn't Care If I Made Another Movie" After 'Raging Bull': Leonardo DiCaprio Interviews Director & Robert De Niro For Tribeca Festīecause it spanned decades, no studio would step up for the de-aging technology that pushed its budget to $160 million, until Netflix embraced it.
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