How Scorsese's First Feature Was Saved From Disaster

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Sources / Further Reading:
Audio Selections are from Scorsese’s commentary track on the DVD version of Who’s That Knocking At My Door
Roger Ebert on The Charlie Rose Show (Dec. 2002) - bit.ly/3fifIaw
Roger Ebert’s review of I Call First - bit.ly/3NwG3hT
Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly - amzn.to/3SOmvGH
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-1977 by Leighton Grist - amzn.to/3sDEsgm
Scorsese on Scorsese edited by Ian Christie and David Thompson - amzn.to/3W5S7KC
The Word Made Flesh: Catholicism and Conflict in the Films of Martin Scorsese by Michael Bliss - amzn.to/3SNeW2M
Music:
Density & Time - “Roots of Legend” - bit.ly/3DgZYMN
Kevin MacLeod - “Dances and Dames”, “Boss Antigua”, “Long Stroll” - incompetech.com/
Dyalla Swain - “Psyche” - / dyallas
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This Marty guy seems like a promising new talent. Maybe he'll make a cool Marvel movie some day.

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Christ

[@HappyCynic]

He sort of made a DC film.

[@nalday2534]

@@HappyCynic ??

[@HappyCynic]

@@nalday2534 Joker. Heavily based on the work of Scorsese.

[@aboukirman3508]

He'd rather die!!!😂😂😂

[@amoviekid]

Seriously though, imagine how many more visionary directors and actors we would have, that would shape the film industry in ways wouldn't expect.

[@halloweenfriday]

There are a lot of new independent filmmakers out there who are being overlooked, and it’s about time for us to be seen. I recently wrote and directed a short film a few months back, and it already won an award at its first festival. People like Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes inspire a lot of people to this day.

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@@dylan-Z-anson I have another one that’s currently in its festival run. It’s a dark comedy-horror short film called Mrs. Halloway.

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@@halloweenfriday that’s the pie one right? I saw the trailer, looks like it has comedic potential and the mise-en-scene is good. The one big bit of advice from me though, from everything I’ve seen on your channel is that you should try to colour grade you footage. It all looks just a bit bland right now, but it’s a pretty easy, though time consuming fix.

[@livingabstraction2206]

Man always a trip recognizing Scorsese early work and how he honestly always had it. Rough as it was

[@edvaira6891]

I’m kinda Partial to his Second Movie, Boxcar Bertha, which was another example of Roger Corman finding a really talented young director and letting them just go to town on a genre picture and prove to the world how talented they are…he was able to get the financing for Mean Streets because of this very underrated 1972 crime movie

[@EyebrowCinema]

Real good stuff. Nice to see a focus on Scorsese's more humble origins - and how essential those origins are to the man.

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[@Memo2Self]

Gosh, I love this. I went to NYU GradFilm for my Masters in the early 70s, and all anyone there could talk about was Haig Manoogian in the UNDERGRAD program, and why didn't WE have anyone like that encouraging US? Thanks so much for the essay!

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You definitely should make a video about early features and see what impact they made.

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The best video essayist since Every Frame a Painting

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I can't help but find it staggeringly unfair how poorly this video performed considering its quality, and the subscriber count of the channel that uploaded it.

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I love your style overall, but those slideshow transitions absolutely floored me. Great stuff. Speaking of directorial debuts, how about a video on Spielberg's Duel? It's surprisingly under-discussed these days, and everyone seems to act like his career started with Jaws. (Not to mention the completely forgotten Sugarland Express in between.)

[@Advent3546]

I love talking Martin Scorsese. He's such an icon and an inspiration.

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Love the effect you put on behind Martin, when you pulled the light to his voice. Your so good at making these. Love Royal ocean .

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Hey Andrew, thank you for making these!

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[@gabepiper8745]

Always been curious about the making of this film, thanks for the awesome video with great insight into the master Martin Scorsese ❤

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Scorsese is a cool director. Hope he'll be big someday.

[@Azmar.]

Do NOT tell me THAT is where the Lee Marvin reference in Reservoir Dogs comes from 🤯

[@neonatalpenguin]

More likely The Big Heat (1953) is the Lee Marvin film being referenced by Tarantino, given some of the similarities in plot and staging in Resevoir Dogs.

[@Azmar.]

@@neonatalpenguin Gonna check that one out, thx o/ tho I still believe that Michael Madsen calling Harvey Keitel a Lee Marvin fan will forever have a whole new sound to it, now that I've watch this video :) (I mean if it is simply a coincidence it's still awesome)

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Great to see you branch out from animation! Quite a fan of your taste. Found you through your UPA series.

[@MariaVosa]

Absolutely fantastic video - and great way to highlight that individual talent alone is rearely enough. Every film is team work. And how important it is for established people with experience to help out younger talent with bith advice and network opportunities. It's also kind of fascinating that this new director making a low budget movie managed to get a raw and unknown talent like Keitel in the lead role. This movie would have easily become a parody with the wrong actor in the part.

[@nabinroychoudhury2154]

Great video...A Lot to learn

[@acalmerkarma]

If this was an hour long I'd watch it over and again

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Yay, new video🎉

[@aadamtx]

Thanks for the upload! I'm behind on my Scorsese's - took a wrong turn at b/w Japanese films of the late 1930s, then unseen classics of the 1950s (PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, for instance). When does one find the time?

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Just great. I can watch anything on Scorsese all day.

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Great video!

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What a great video!

[@StreetHierarchy]

wow i never thought the Charlie Rose music would hit me like this...

[@wesmooremedia]

Great video as always!!! ❤ But I’ve been looking for the song that appears at 7:58 for years it’s a theme song for a podcast that I’ve listened to but could never identify it. The link in the description lists long stroll but the link takes you to a page of various royalty free music without that song and when searching the only version of “long stroll” seems to be a slowed down jazz song but not what is featured here. Anyone have any idea?

[@mechajay3358]

It's fascinating watching how Scorsese's began his own film career to get to where he is now.

[@SuperCosty2010]

...and while Scorsese was helping Harvey Keitel to start his career, De Palma was doing the same with De Niro with very similar movies

[@shubhangsriram7198]

i thought the guy on the left was Vijay Sethupathi 😂

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Watching videos on how to make a film is one thing, learning to accept possible failure is not my idea of fun.

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Where are you brother? :(

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You continue to be the cream of the crop!

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We almost didn’t see his six minute film about a man shaving??

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nice, new vid 😎

[@auldthymer]

You're telling me that Marty was not about Marty??? /s

[@Arcanist_The]

You didn't mention Goncharov shame on you 😔😔😔😔😔😔

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[@cinnamon4605]

" Master Scorsese "

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This Martin Scorsese, he's a funny guy.

[@lackregular]

Funny how?

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4 stars

[@nathanhiggins3677]

So basically just find someone with shittones of money?

[@johnstrawb3521]

Mean Streets is 'a great film'? You've watched it, yeah? The focus on deNiro's stunted character is his biggest mistake. Consistent with 13:11 it's an interesting failure, however.

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Midceses

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Can you do an essay about Thelma and Louise? Less men please

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[@Noms_Chompsky]

It's a shame he's so jealous of Marvel Movies, proly still bitter over being the shiznit until Star Wars came out, got on top with Good Fellas and Casino again then Matrix happened, picked things back up with Gangs of New York and boom Lord of the Rings, finally got that Oscar Nicholson strong armed the academy for him with The Departed and what happens, fucking Iron Man happens. Poor guy, his mobster flicks and book adaptations can never catch a break.

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not sure why you have comments off on the Up Series video, just wanted to say good vid 🫡