“They have to fight a lot.” Martin Scorsese talks about the difficult situation young filmmakers face in the face of studios and a ‘fragmented’ film culture

Every time Martin Scorsese speaks, he raises the stakes, mainly because the maestro has enough life and professional experience to be absolutely right in his ideas on the vast majority of occasions. Not to change, the person responsible for the impending ‘Moon Killers’ It has hit the nail on the head again with its latest industry analysisIt was shared during a conversation with the magazine time.

Hit the nail on the head (again)

In it, Scorsese spoke about the complex situation of the film Young directors Moment; A group that has to “really fight” to be recognized for studies that They are betting less and less on personal cinema.

“Young people who express themselves through moving images will find a way to be seen. But they have to fight a lot. Really fight and not be taken over. [Los estudios]And in the end they say: Well, who wants to make personal cinema? Look what happened in the seventies! In the end everyone went crazy! “They went over budget and over schedule, and produced these three movies, ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ‘Raging Bull,’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate!'”

Moreover, good Marty went back to his beginnings as a spectator to clarify what he considered Segmentation of cinema culture into genres and platformsand the creation of niche audiences that do not typically expand their horizons beyond their affiliations.

“It should be one cinematic culture, you know? But right now everything is fragmented and divided in some ways. Not everyone liked musicals. Not everyone liked westerns. Not everyone liked gangster films or noir films. But at that time, we “I went to the cinema and this is what was shown.”

This type of analysis is nothing new for Martin Scorsese who had already explained in 2018 that The Seventh Art was in a clear process of devaluation as The expression is buried beneath box office mania And the numbers.

“It’s undervalued, despised, belittled in all aspects, not necessarily from the commercial side, but certainly from the artistic side. Since the 1980s, there’s been an emphasis on numbers. It’s a bit disgusting. The cost of a film is one thing.” . Since the movie costs a certain amount, they hope to at least make back that amount and a little more. Now the focus is on the numbers, the cost, the opening weekend, and how much the film grosses in the United States. How “how much did it make in England, how much did it make in Asia, how much did it make worldwide, and how many viewers did it have.”

Cause more than one saint.

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