Martin Charles Scorsese was born November 17, 1942 in New York City, New York. Living in New York inspired actually inspired the setting of many of his movies. Both of Martins parents worked as actors, his father was a clothes presser & actor, and his mother was a seamstress and an actress. He attended NYU’s University College of Arts and Science, where he earned a Bachelors degree in English. Martin was hampered by asthma as a child so he was not able to play sports, his parents would take him to see movies, this is when he realized his love for cinematography. Martin Scorsese had many favorite filmmakers but the most influential upon him were Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangeo Antonioni, and Federico Fellini. Black Narcissus was a film that greatly inspired Martin and he implemented many of their unique techniques into his filmmaking. …show more content…
Many of these movies are award-winning films such as, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Departed and many more. Martin’s most recent film Wolf of Wall Street, based on a true story of the life of a crooked stockbroker Jordan Belfort played by Leonardo DiCaprio marked the fifth collaboration between the two. Martin and Dicaprio often work together in many crime/mobster films. This film was selected for many awards including Golden Globe for Best actor; it was also nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In total, Martins films have received 70 major competitive acting award nominations
In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, produce, and sometimes act in their films as well. Three prime examples of these auteurs are: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock.
On September 30, 1924, Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana (“Truman Capote”). Capote was impressively smart during his childhood. At the young age of four, he had learned how to read (“Truman Capote”). Teachers were worried by little Capote after he often failed classes; simply, Capote
PORFIRIO, R., SILVER, A., & URSINI, J. (2001). Film noir reader 3: interviews with filmmakers of the classic noir period. New York, Limelight.
Born in Massapequa, New York in 1954, Seinfeld soon discovered the attention that making jokes could garner him, and he admits to having been a class clown throughout his education. After college, Seinfeld starting touring the nation's comedy clubs and college campuses with his odd brand of observational humor. Seinfeld would notice something from society, someone who talked too close to another person for example, and h...
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet Transylvania on September 30, 1928. Prior to being taken under the Nazi 's rule, he decided to pursue Religious studies,as his father did. He grew up with his parents and three sisters. in the year 1944, when Elie was 15 years old,
On June 4th, 1990 Evan Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California. Both his mother and father are lawyers. Spiegel had a very privileged childhood. He received his
The Wolf of Wall Street is based on the life and also the author, Jordan Belfort. Jordan becomes discontent with his everyday life and realizes his talent for selling. As he continuously gains more money, he begins using more drugs. Way more drugs. Jordan starts his own brokerage firm named Stratton-Oakmont. Jordan hires a staff of, well, criminals to help him sell cheap stocks. They would sell all of these cheap stocks to their customers, then Belfort would buy large amounts of these stocks, running up the price, and then dump it. Finally, Jordan begins running into a lot of legal trouble as the FBI is on to the ways his brokerage firm works. Although Belfort has the FBI watching him very closely, he continues to spend huge sums of money on things such as boats, cars, houses, strippers/hookers, and last, but certainly not least, drugs. As Jordan’s already massive drug problem continues to escalate, he has to keep a very large portion of his money in a European account to hide it from the Feds. Belfort ends up going to prison for 22 months for fraud of his
Think about your favorite movie. When watching that movie, was there anything about the style of the movie that makes it your favorite? Have you ever thought about why that movie is just so darn good? The answer is because of the the Auteur. An Auteur is the artists behind the movie. They have and individual style and control over all elements of production, which make their movies exclusively unique. If you could put a finger on who the director of a movie is without even seeing the whole film, then the person that made the movie is most likely an auteur director. They have a unique stamp on each of their movies. This essay will be covering Martin Scorsese, you will soon find out that he is one of the best auteur directors in the film industry. This paper will include, but is not limited to two of his movies, Good Fellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street. We will also cover the details on what makes Martin Scorsese's movies unique, such as the common themes, recurring motifs, and filming practices found in their work. Then on
Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine (Biography Today). During the course of a thought-provoking childhood, King gained an interest in chilling stories that were far too grown-up for such a young boy (Biography Today). His concentration on demoralizing stories became his own clandestine escape from his particular fears brought on by a life-changing event for his family (Kehoe). The life-changing event that was brought on at such a youthful age has developed the king of horror, who is now a renowned author.
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. As a boy, he grew up in a farming community, and worked on ranches. At the age of fourteen, he decided that he wanted to become a writer. He went to Stanford University, but w...
It is no doubt that Martin Scorsese has heavily influenced the emulating of American film making from European influences. He is a prime example of a ‘New Hollywood Cinema’ director, not only from his ethnicity and background, but from his sheer interest in this form
(1) Eric Carle was born in 1929, in Syracuse, New York. He grew up most of his early childhood in America, but the age of 6 years old his parents moved to Germany. As a young boy his father always took him to go on walks thru meadows and woods, and would pick
It all started when actor Robin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. When he was younger, he entertained his classmates with humor; and he was a fan of Jonathan Winters. When he was going to graduate high school, his classmates voted he him the least likely to succeed. However, Robin Williams went to Juilliard School in New York, then he went to Claremont
Martin Scorsese really is responsible for changing my expectations when I view a film. When I watch a movie familiar to his genre of film, I use his films to compare, which I don’t believe is right, but his films are classics to me. To me, newer films will never compare to the work of Scorsese because society and culture are different, many ideas have already been done, and they just don’t make movies like they used to. I realize that movies he made will always be my favorites and I will never hesitate when someone asks, “Who is your favorite
The art of filmmaking has been around for over a hundred years and now has over a hundred different specialized jobs in its field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “key grip, gaffer, best boy, boom operator, and director of photography are just a few of the jobs in the field of filmmaking that are essential to the process of creating a movie or TV show” (From Script #1). But before any of these people are able to get a job, they must go through an average of four years of college in order to specialize in film (Zeke). Filmmaking is a very complex and involved career that is crucial to the pursuit of happiness on earth and the telling of history.