We had a tough time choosing just one…
This was a little tougher than the initial question we were going to ask, which was asking for your favourite Scorsese movie. That felt too wide open and generally kind of easy to answer, because you might have a singular scene from a Scorsese movie that is your favourite, but the movie itself isn’t your favourite of his.
Even some of Marty’s “lesser” movies – like Silence, Hugo, or Gangs Of New York – have some incredible imagery and scenes within them that stand out all the more because they’re not absolutely surrounded by amazing imagery and scenes like they would be in one of his “better” movies.
(All of this is contingent on opinion, because of course it is.)
So, that was the focus of this week’s Big Question, and if you’d like to let us know your answer, you can on Twitter, or on this post on Facebook.
You can check out The Big Reviewski’s answers below, from 03:38:
Rory went with a scene from Shutter Island. Well, truth be told, the scene Rory wanted to go with wasn’t freely available on YouTube – the scene with DiCaprio visiting Dachau and hallucinating his wife and children there – but he did find another scene he liked from the movie, so it all worked out eventually.
For his pick, Eoghan went with the finding the bodies montage from Goodfellas. Between the narration, the soundtrack and the perfect-plot-forwarding device, it really was Marty firing on all cylinders and is a perfect representation of why he is such a master of film-making and why that movie is still adored all these decades later.
And finally, Paul went for the bar scene in Mean Streets, when we see Robert De Niro (in a snazzy hat) arriving with two ladies on his arms, again accompanied by some prime soundtrack choices. With the intense red lighting and fluid camerawork, it is one of those magic movie moments that makes you sit back and say to yourself “I wish, just once in my life, I looked that cool”.
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