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I like Gangs of New York but I wish I could have seen what that original supposedly unreleasable cut was like. In a hypothetical situation where those were traditional studio movies, they would have force him to cut them down and he would be either fine with it or publicly fine and secretly mad about it. Where I'm going with this is that if the Irishman is 3,5 hours and KOTFM is 4, it's probably because Scorsese and Thelma wanted them to be so.

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The movie came out at 165 minutes, Scorsese stood by the cut and there was never even a mention of an extended version, despite those being all the rage at the height of the dvd home market boom. Also Gangs of New York has been his only movie that had unreleasable runtime drama and they fought for a year with Weinstein in the editing room and the whole thing was heavily reported by the press. There's even some Spielberg quote somewhere about Scorsese telling him he ruined a generation of filmmakers by going back to Close Encounters and doing the special edition. He says as long as the producers didn't take the movie away and you agreed to the Cut, that's the final cut end of story. imo he earned it more than most.Īnd to touch on the runtime thing, Scorsese is famously against Director's Cuts. And right after he failed Departed happened and the Titanic guy actually became a real movie star and some of Marty's older smaller movies were now huge classics and it ended up with him today being a gigantic figure in Hollywood that people still wanna gamble to make a big movie with. At the same time Weinstein was at the peak of his power and wanted to be the one to crown Scorsese so he got the huge budgets. He did his time working with as much as the studio sustem will alow him.īy 2000 he was already mentioned right next to Chaplin- Kubrick-Hitchkock as the big directors that oscars never rewarded.

Some of them did fine, some of them bombed even with low budgets and even his biggest hits were just hits moneywise, not the kind of success that will give you a blank check to do anything. Before the 00s with the exception of New York, New York which was a BIG project for its time, he did exclusively mid to low budget movies. He is definately that for the last two decades but that wasn't always the case. I think Marty is the only director who doesn't make big bucks at the BO, spending hundreds of million on production costs on actionless drama, yet he still can get funding for his movie. I wonder if working with streamer like Netflix and Apple made Marty thinks that he can go for any movie's length he wants?

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