The Age of Innocence is a Masterpiece (and other Scorsese Hot Takes)
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In honour of his 9th Best Director Oscar nomination, let's talk about the great filmmaker Martin Scorsese. This video is a collection of hot takes exploring Scorsese's filmography, including analysis of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Irishman, and others.
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At first glance, I thought this channel was called Eyebrow Cinema because it was all about Scorsese lol
Same! 😅
My favorite thing about The Last Temptation of Christ is how it portrays Jesus as the Bible tells, “fully God and fully man,” and as a believer, I think Schrader/Scorsese really struck something beautiful with their fictional interpretation of Jesus.
Love that, too bad the movie is still controversial as it is back then.
The most underrated CZcamsr. Another masterpiece, my friend.
Cheers bro, I'll drink to that.
1970's Scorsese was brilliant. Untouchable .
Borat the train inspector that killed me
Not gonna lie, I was pretty happy when I wrote that.
I personally really love Hugo. I think it's one of the most passionate films Scorsese has made. I get that some of the comedy is a little bit stilted and I chalk that up to Scorsese just being unfamiliar on what would be funny for children, but I personally got the emotional impact the film was aiming for and I find myself tearing up at the end.
Outside of that, I agree with a lot of your takes, particularly on Age of Innocence.
Thanks for sharing. For what it's worth I used to love Hugo it's only on repeat viewings that my patience has started to run thin.
Glad to find so much love for The Age of Innocence.
The Aviator is great too. I’m not sure if I’d call it underrated or overlooked (it did get multiple awards after all) but it’s definitely among Scorsese best and doesn’t get talked about nearly enough. It's an absolutely incredible biopic that portrays Howard Hughes downwards spiral towards obsession and isolation in a really fascinating and captivating way. Scorseses direction gives the film a great sense of energy and its proven to be a very rewatchable movie for me.
I love The Aviator too. Top 10 Scorsese for me.
All I’m going to say is that I love Shutter Island’s ending, it was great when I first finished the book and it was great in the movie.
I should have clarified that the actual final scene of Shutter Island is pretty great. What I'm not crazy about is the big exposition dump where Ben Kingsley explains exactly what's going on. Sucks out a lot of the paranoia.
@@EyebrowCinema in my opinion whatever goes wrong in that climatic scene is completely erased by the addition of that final heartbreaking scene
"Shutter island gets alot of shit for its ending"
What I thought the ending was great
In the Irishman introducing characters w/ their date of death was mournful of the genre to me.
Another great video.
Great point, David. Also leads to one of the biggest laughs in the movie.
Eyebrow Cinema could you remind me which scene?
@@SmartDave60 he's talking about the scene in which another gangster shows up after already several of those types of introductions, but this time the text simply says "everybody liked him, he died of natural causes". I'm paraphrasing, can't remember the exact words but it's something along those lines. My theater erupted when that happened.
I loved that, trying to tell that being in that stuff only brings you a horrible death
Another great essay. What a trip to be young though - at age 52, I've watched Scorsese's films literally my entire life, the first one being "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" when I was a kid in the 70s. As the years went on, each of his films (I saw some like "New York New York" later, but still) seemed to appear at some small new phase of my personal development. I guess I can't imagine binge-watching an entire life in a week. Maybe it doesn't matter. But are younger folks going to have a similar organic experience with a director, let alone a novelist? I hope so. It's been fun to grow up and grow old with Marty.
Only you know how to write, deliver, present, and visually showcase a 16 minute video.....like it's a Film.
i legit couldn't believe it was just 16 minutes, i felt like i stood here for at least half an hour, totally immersed in your captivating perspective on Marty's filmography, i think it was kinda subjective due to how fascinated and virginal i still am to Marty's work, haven't seen nearly as much as you have.
But i think the video truly was written very efficiently , all commentary was delivered with the upmost perfect cadence, essay presented with very smooth structure and the constant visual edits to every word you say is just.... sublime
Good Job, you are as masterful in 30 minute essays as in 16 minute essays. keep it up.
Your continued support and kind words are always appreciated. And given you're still relatively new to Scorsese, I must say, enjoy the ride.
Agree with everything. 2010s is definitely Scorsese's best decade. Though, 80s is his second best imo
My hot take - Casino is kinda overrated and The Irishman is way better.
Great video! - though personally id completely disagree with Hugo, for me its a masterpiece
I totally get the appeal and I used to love it. It's only on subsequent viewings that my enthusiasm for it has diminished.
A lot of the issues you had with Hugo were pretty much nonexistent in the book the movie is based on, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick. I saw the movie first, and then read the book (because it was all the rage in 4th grade) and the book does a lot of things better - especially because the book has Selznick's AMAZING artwork to tell half the story. Nice video!
Have you seen After Hours? That's one of my personal favorites from Scorcese.
Really enjoyed watching this video
I personally love Hugo, and in my opinion, the things you defined as flaws make it great for me. It has a lot of heart, in my opinion, and looks georgeus, which in my opinion is adequate for a film praising George Melies work. Sometimes a movie doesn't need a lot of depth in my opinion.
With all due respect to your truly invaluable, commendable insight, my personal top three favorite Scorcese takes are:
(1) TAXI DRIVER: my intro to Marty during my teenage years. To this day, I never stop looking at myself in the mirror and quoting Travis Bickle, whether our loud or in my mind: "You talkin' to me?" And it was Bernard Herrmann's last score.
(2) GANGS OF NEW YORK: a gritty, bloody historical epic in a league of its own, and in my opinion, a case of a master filmmaker coming full circle with his past cinematic explorations - in this case, Marty with his previous depictions of the dark, seedy side of New York.
(3) THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST: even as an agnostic, I'm completely blown away by this film every time I watch it. I think it did FAR MORE JUSTICE to Jesus than any other New Testament film.
I watched The Age of Innocence yesterday, and that was my thought. It's a masterpiece. You can see the love this movie was made with.
Wait a minute... are you telling me that Scorsese made “La La Land” 40 years earlier except it was set in NYC?
Yeah I guess so.
Better than La La Land though, imo
La La Land is better because it's a more polished and coherent movie. But it seems to me that it borrowed quite a bit from New York, New York.
no.
Dude good on you for the King Missile song at the end! I love that band and nobody ever knows them!
Hugo>>>>>Shutter Island
If you swap them, then I agree with you in the 2010's a 100%
I think Hugo is the best Scorsese has done in since The Departed
U missed Kundun buddy which 98% of scorsese fans haven't watched!!!!!
Anyways great video
You should do more hot take videos like this. Very fun
I'll keep that in mind! I was gonna do one on Disney but that evolved into the screenwriting analysis.
Excellent video, super well made
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
When I was in fourth grade the book Hugo is based on "The Adventure of Hugo Cabret" was reslly popular with my class. Many people were checking it out at the library, including me. And I remember really liking it, it was one of the most unique, unconventional books I'd read as a nine year old, and it still is. I remember watching the movie afterwards as it was also talked about and liking it, but I don't remember my opinions too well. But I definitely thought the book was better. I need to watch it again.
Not sure how I didn’t see this video originally! Awesome 👍
Love Scorsese and love your breakdowns. You are such a film genius. So glad I found you. And I totally agree about Last Temptation. That was a fantastic movie for me, a life long atheist.
"The Last Temptation of Christ" is pretty well known in Greece, my home. I'm talking about the novel by Kazantzakis, which is both fascinating and earned Kazantzakis himself a pretty nasty reputation when it first came out. The Greek Orthodox Church strongly antagonized him and nearly excommunicated him. Which was really a shame, given Kazantzakis' heavy leanings on spirituality thoughout the entirety of his life. Scorcese's film version of the story, to me at least, is definitely one of the most fascinating greek-written stories come to life through film. It honestly makes me kind of sad that it is not at least as well known as "Zorba the Greek"
Totally agree about the Age of Innocence. The book is an essential basis for the film, but Scorsese captures its spirit so perfectly.
Your idea for rewriting Hugo sounds like a lot of movies we’ve already seen. Like half of Pixar’s movies.
Why does it matter that he’s white? It doesn’t matter so bringing it up that way so frequently seems disingenuous.
because white= privileged, simple
@@fluoridejunkie You're an idiot!
@@fluoridejunkie Simple-minded, yes. Simple, no.
I love Boxcar Bertha and New York, New York! The problem with Cameron Diaz and DiCaprio in Gangs is they aren't Irish. I don't like it when they cast non-Italians as Italian. Same for Irish roles. Can you explain what skin color has to do with Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, self-hating white guy?
very nice , thanks
does anyone know the name of the ambient music playing during the king of comedy part?
All the music in this video, except in the end credits, is from Elmer Bernstein's score for The Age of Innocence. The specific piece you're looking for is called "Dangerous Conversation". Cheers.
@@EyebrowCinema thank you man
Great video man.
For a searing interpretation of Jesus' story, you should look at Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to Matthew. Pasolini presents him as a revolutionary, more someone rebelling against social injustice than a spiritual leader (note that the title does not use the word "saint"). Pasolini's Christ is a dynamic and impassioned man of action.
Hey man, I've quite enjoyed some of your videos and I've been subscribed to your channel for a bit now. Just wanted to make myself known. Anyways, here's some of my own hot takes in films:
I'd put Se7en head and shoulders above Fight Club as Fincher's best film. A film seeped in nihilism, but one that offers one of the most skilled refutations of nihilism..well, that is until True Detective Season 1 came around.
The Matrix is not a good movie, not just its sequels but the first one as well, it's basically a watered down version of concepts that films like They Live, Ghost in The Shell, and The Truman Show did better.
I happily agree with you that The Last Temptation of Christ is one of Marty's best films, and is an underrated masterpiece if you asked me.
I didn't care for The Wolf of Wall Street. It's fun, and I get what Marty was going for, and there are strong performances from DiCaprio, Hill, Bernthal, and Robbie amongst others. It just felt like a movie where Marty wanted to test just how depraved and insane he could go without getting slapped with an NC-17.
Scarface (1983) is fun, but pretty laughable in comparison to other gangster flicks of the time like The Godfather duo and Once Upon a Time in America. I always seem to catch De Palma at his most self indulgent.
Anyways, great video.
Can you do a video essay on noir films
I have done a video on Chinatown, but a future piece on film noir sounds like it could be fun.
Some of the best FilmNoir analytical essays on CZcams are by Rageaholic aka Razorfist in his Film Noirchives series.
But not only has he not covered everything, but i think Eyebrow's perspective could help flesh out other perspectives on those same films.
-and also on the different format Jesus Christ-
@@EyebrowCinema A video that I haven’t seen that I’d love someone to make is a breakdown on how film noir evolved into neo noir (and other sub genres) or your thoughts on the debate of noir being an aesthetic vs a genre
I’ve never seen Hugo but I’ve read the book the movie’s based on, which is totally brilliant, and from what you said it sounds like the movie is pretty faithful to its source material. Maybe if you read the book you’d enjoy it more?
The last act of TKOC seems to be taking place in Rupert’s mind.
Never thought the character warned in "King of Comedy" would be prophetic to the scale it is right now.
What did you think of Rupert’s actual stand up? After finally watching King Of Comedy (spoilers?) with the whole movie following Rupert’s spite filled obsession with fame, I was genuinely caught off guard by his set being relatively “normal,” when we see it, and not the ravings of a mad man on television. Felt like a kind of brilliant twist imo, but what did you think of his actual stand up?
Lots of interesting takes. I don't agree with the take on Hugo. I think the childlike innocence it has is precisely what makes it so different but also so interesting in comparison to his other movies.
And I don't remember seeing The Departed mentioned at all. How did you feel about that one?
Just watched Age of Innocence. Such a beautiful film.
so jesus is the green goblin!?
Which Scorsese movie is the best, in your opinion?
Hugos problem mostly comes from it be too faithful to the book. Trust me the book is a 1 to 1 of the film just told in illustrations
I loved the Age of Innocence a lot. The imagery is unmatched in cinema when it comes to depict the 1900's of America. The theme was common in the 19th century: love and society as two different worlds. But society had to offer all worldly pleasure to those who adhered to its rules. And this is shown in the movie. Also, the super long take into the Beauford mansion gathering is absolutely gorgeous.
1800s.
I remember the 1900's. This isn't what it looked like.
The 19th century I mean.
@@pascoett i do not remember the 19th century.
Might as well keep the top 10 spam coming lol
1. Taxi Driver
2. Goodfellas
3. Raging Bull
4. King of Comedy
5. Mean Streets
6. The Departed
7. Casino
8. The Irishman
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. The Last Temptation of Christ
Hugo is FAR better than Silence, imo.
what about After Hours?
5:02 I mean, just speaking as someone who hasn't seen Hugo, but if we are amalgamating the two kid characters anyway why are we ditching Chloe? I'd much rather have her play the protagonist.
I agree with your position on Pupkin. However, I disagree about the ending. It’s left ambiguous as to whether the ending is in his head. Hell, it’s almost implied it is.
The insane delusions of grandeur after admitting to kidnapping Langford…the huge success after one show of a mediocre set…the fact that once he has a show, the curtains start to resemble prison bars…and the announcer just keeps announcing his name, like Pupkin is in a jail cell, just reliving the idea of the spotlight without actually telling more jokes and no idea what is next.
3:29 heroes? you mean protagonists right? because protagonist doesn't mean hero
Love this movie, definitely a top 10 Scorsese movie
Rich blk guy's also get away with anything. Just like rich Asian guys and rich Hispanic guys. Get it? Race doesn't matter. Money does.
I actually loved age of innocence right asay
I liked Hugo, but to each their own.
I couldn't disagree more on hot take #2. 70', 80' and 90' Scorsese is better than 2000'-2010' Scorsese.
Also, New York New York is one of those films where the taste divide between the States and Europe is stronger. I may be wrong, but I don't think there's anyone in Europe that doesn't consider it a masterpiece and one of Marty's best movies.
Very interesting picks, but I don't totally agree with your take on Willem Dafoe's Jesus. According to Scorsese himself, the best adaptation of the gospels is the Gospel Acoording to Matthew by Pasolini. While it's probably less entertaining, it's far more powerful and revolutionary from a directing and writing standpoint.
YOU ARE TOO GOOD AT THISSSSS
DO YOU HAVE A LETTERBOXD
Thank you! And I do. You can find me as Daniel PG Simpson
More hot takes videos!
I noticed you didnt really speak much on Goodfellas, do you not enjoy that film? Also great channel my man I'm really enjoying the content on it
There's not much fresh for there to be said about Goodfellas. So much said already!
@@alanmckenna5608 yh man however I just wanted to hear his take on the film and how he would rank it in and among other scorcese films. Personally it was my favourite followed by taxi driver and raging bull
It's good on it's own terms.
He's a leo rising.
Who is this "Scorsezzy" guy he keeps talking about?
9:38
So….is it safe to say that La La Land did New York, New York’s ideas better?
Why the obsession with pointing out when people are white?
It's impossible to defend the blue-eyed Jesus
This is why people need to take a look at the Roger Ebert Great Movies series. I discovered many movies like Age of Innocence, After Hours, Trouble in Paradise, Night Moves, The Long Goodbye, and many more movies. It is always interesting to see Roger Ebert's opinion on the movies he considers great. You should watch all the movies that interest you on that list.
I disagree with your Jesus narrative & I wish you did Cape Fear. Other than that great review
This guy really does seem to focus on the fact Robert de Niro is white
I also noted that. Not this channel´s first time, though.
Couldn't agree more with Diaz in "Gangs of New York". She is fine. Nothing special, but people act as if it was the most egregious miscasting in the history of cinema.
Great video, love the editing. Unfortunately, "The age of Innocence" bored me and frustrated me on first viewing and yet had all the elements to make, for me, an absolute stunner. A great source novel, production design, costumes, music, and actors, yet utterly unmoving. Perhaps because every scene is chock full of cinematic tricks that call attention to themselves. The only performance that came to life for me was Winona Ryder's. Also, the Jesus film was a million miles behind Zeffirelli's magnificent 'Jesus of Nazareth'. It wipes the floor with all other cinematic depictions put together. Don't know if you've seen it, if you haven't, it's dazzling.
No, the fucken 90s is the best decade for Scorsese! Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear and others. Way better then his 2010s stuff, who the fuck gives a fuck about Silence... No one, that's why it bombed at the box office. That's why The Irishman went to streaming, nowhere near as good as his early work.
can't argue with any of that.
The Irishman is about an American. As well as the stupid name, it has a completely unrealistic plot. It's well made, but that's not enough.
I LOVE Scorsese. But The Irishman was complete shit. I just don't get all the acclaim. Maybe it's pure nostalgia. It just seems like it was a hodgepodge of his classic films all mashed into a big mess. Nothing will change my opinion on that film. Ever.
Probably a second viewing will
It gets better in watching again, trust me
I agree
Thought this was an analysis on The Age of Innocence, this ain't it
so i watched a bunch of your stuff, and you're an adequate film critic, but your far-left racism is too annoying to continue listening to.
@Flying Hellfish what was racist
hate that ricist comment on white rich guys...
OK, fascist.
@@OuterGalaxyLounge Disagreeing with someone is not fascism
@@OuterGalaxyLounge Name-calling is not an argument.
It's true though. That's how rich white guys from wall Street live.
Why did you have to specify that Rupert was white so many times? A bit self-hating much? Otherwise good video.
Loved your video but I dont understand why you have to put so much emphasis on white guy.
Wolf of Wall Street is Scorsese’s best film!
Rich white guys ? 😂
A list of Scorsese hot takes and you didnt even bring up sharktale? unsubbed!
Great video, but youre obsession with race is distracting, especially because its wholly inaccurate. I enjoyed the video, but seeing how your perception is skewed by racism i will not watch another.
Boo hoo somebody hurt a white male's feelings stop with the fucking "reverse racism" bullshit and race gaslighting you whiny anti sjws be the first assholes calling people libtards,commies, or that all time favorite Sjw but if somebody makes a comment about white males or white people in general, it be the" facts don't care your feelings " assholes fascist snowflakes, that will be the first to bitch and moan about how they being portrayed by the pinko liberal media.
@@zharapatterson ive never seen someone jump to so many conclusions and make so many assumptions in such a short amount of text, its almost impressive if it wasnt so sad how clear it is you cannot think freely, and see things only through whatever ideology you decided to make your entire personality and lash out at anyone who you think even slightly goes against anything you believe. Theres no point in talking to someone, or even trying to refute anyone who is that so far gone and controlled to point you did here. I hope the best for you, hope you can start thinking for yourself and not this sad us vrs them mentality. Reply if you want, im sure you will, but ive realized people that wrapped up into one ideology or another, left, right, pc, console, anything, when someone is owned by any ideology as you i know theres no chance of conversation and the only hope is they come to it themselves one day. Have a good life, good luck on your journey friend.
@Flying Hellfish Stop proving me right human shitstain.
@@zharapatterson You're supposed to take your pills BEFORE you make comments on CZcams!
@@zharapatterson Project much?
Jordan Belfort in WoWS is Jewish, not white.
he's white.
Last Temptation is TRASH! Maybe you atheists wouldn't understand how bad it is.
there are plenty of christians who don't agree with you. ask yourself why. you WON'T, because you're a moron, but you should.
Hugo is a tasteless and ridiculous melodrama in the worst Hollywood style. The director made 1 great film and nearly a 2nd great film, but that’s more than 99% of directors. Sorry, but you need to up your standards in assessing a body of work.