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Most people know Martin Scorsese for his depictions of terrible people. But he also spends a lot of time exploring spiritual and religious themes and subject matter in his films. Are these two aspects of Scorsese's work in conflict? Or can we resolve the Sacred and the Profane in Scorsese's films and see the bigger questions that run through the heart of his entire career?
0:00 Intro
0:51 I The Sacred and Profane
03:00 II "As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a missionary"
07:08 III Stepping on the Image of Christ
10:41 IV You are the Judge.
13:24 V What can be Forgiven?
This video contains spoilers for Silence, Mean Streets, and Goodfellas.
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Interviews with Scorsese on Faith:
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   â˘Â A Conversation with Martin Scorsese o... Â
Last Temptation Protest Coverage:
   â˘Â Protests at Martin Scorsese Film, Cor... Â
   â˘Â Andre's Pit - "Last Temptation of Chr... Â
   â˘Â C.A.N. News (Community Action Network... Â
   â˘Â Oprah, "The Last Temptation of Christ... Â
Films Referenced:
Raging Bull, The Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas, The Irishman, Silence, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, Mean Streets, Cape Fear, Bringing Out The Dead, The Departed, and Taxi Driver.
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The most personal is the most creative. - Martin Scorsese
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"Believe it or not, Mean Streets is my most spiritual film."
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"You're very observant: the sacred AND the propane."
("Little" Carmine Lupertazzi Jr., The Sopranos, 1999)
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The Irishman hit me the hardest because at the end I realized how old Scorsese, De Niro, Pesci, and Pacino are. I can't imagine a world without them, and I think the film's layer of vulnerability reflects on how the characters' interact with each other when they reach their final years.
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Seeing all these Goodfellas clips reminds me, Deniro and Pesci are the ones that always get showered with praise, as they should. But Liotta was incredible in that movie.
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As someone who works as a full-time pastor and is currently a seminary student, I have to say that I really enjoyed this video. I've seen many of these films. Oddly enough the two I haven't are The Last Temptation and Silence. Silence is one I've always wanted to see and The Last Temptation is one I was driven away from as a child because of its reputation. However, now I plan to watch it. I find the tension between Christ's humanity and divinity very compelling and knowing that's the main theme of the movie makes it a must-watch.
I think what you have highlighted in this video is that Scorsese isn't afraid to address the very real and challenging aspects of faith. Temptation and doubt are two things I have struggled with throughout my walk with Christ yet are often not discussed in Christian music and films. And when they are the message is very heavy-handed and not as well directed lol.
I wish more Christians were open to engaging in the conversations that these movies were having.
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I always thought that Last Temptation is actually the best Jesus movie for how it actually tries to engage with Christianity's contention that Christ is both man and God fully. Very few depictions of Jesus actually attempt to even explore this belief and its implication. To think he wouldn't have doubts or a full spectrum of human emotions is just lying.
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I always thought Scorsese as a very religious filmmaker. The religious theme is pretty prevalent in almost all his films.
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It's sad that people think of Pure Flix when it comes to Christian film. As a Catholic child, I thought of The Prince of Egypt and The Passion of The Christ when it came to religious movies; my parents would have pointed and laughed at things like God's Not Dead. A film like Silence, which challenges the viewer and encourages them to ponder on the nature of faith, is what should be encouraged by our religious leaders.
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Mean Streets
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
After Hours
The Color of Money
The Last Temptation of Christ
Goodfellas
Cape Fear
The Age of Innocence
Casino
Bringing Out The Dead
Gangs of New York
The Aviator
The Departed
Shutter Island
Hugo
The Wolf of Wall Street
Silence
The Irishman
[Killers of The Flower Moon]
One of the most eclectic and versatile filmographies ever displayed in cinema history.
Scorsese, the greatest and most consistent filmmaker of the last 40 years of cinema.
Unparalleled GOAT.
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When discussing Scorsese, most people focus on the way he potrays violence, which is understandable, as violence is a prevalent aspect in most of his works, even when it isn't explicit. But people totally miss the point of why he even focuses on violence so much.
I find really baffling that Scorsese is sometimes criticized for the extreme violence, and also by religious groups when he made Last Temptation, because that really proves the point that I want to make.
When Mel Gibson made the Passion of the Christ, it was a harrowing, gratuitous, display of brutal violence that was well received by some religious groups, the same that condemn other displays of violence. When you look at religion, at leats the christian ones, it is bloated with horrible acts of violence, but what differenciates something of substance from something shallow, is the meaning behind it.
I argue, that Scorsese's use of violence is his extreme way of showcasing what he really wants to tell, he isn't concerned so much with violence itself but with the moral implications that it carries.
Scorsese uses violence as just one aspect of sin, just like he also potrays several cases of greed, corruption, lust and pride. But what truly makes Scorsese films so powerful, is that at the end, he understands catholicism theology as that of redemption. As a humanist, Scorsese understand that we all are, to a degree, sinners, but we all have the chance to redeem ourselves and become better people.
Which is why I finf Scorsese films to be the most compasionate, spiritual and human films out of any filmmaker. I'm not a religious person myself, but watching The Last Temptation of Christ touched me very deeply unlike any other potray of Jesus Christ.
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It's truly remarkable that we're seeing Scorsese's battling of his inner demons, play out through all his films.
It's sad that he has to go through this, in order to give us these masterpieces of cinema.
On the other hand...He is giving us MASTERPIECES!!
An excellent video.
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So few film makers have managed to walk the line of both trying to say something profound with his creative works and being successful with the general public. Even if not with every movie. We are blessed to have him enrich our lives.
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Excellent essay, as always. The quote referenced at the beginning of this piece was a tribute to Haig Manoogian, the director of the NYU Film Program who championed his student Scorseseâs work, even putting a second mortgage on his house to help finance Scorseseâs first feature âWhoâs That Knocking at My Door?â. Manoogian died during the making of âRaging Bullâ, and the quote directly refers to how the teacher, Manoogian, brought light to the student, Scorsese. In his last year at NYU Haig let me into his film program on his instinct and my colorful back story. He brought light to me as well. Impossible to imagine that happening today.
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When I heard Scorses speak at Tribeca, he touched on this very poignantly:
âFor me, that faith I was instilled with when I was a kid â that changes. You get older. You go through the sixties and everything is open, stuff is going on. You start to question everything. Ultimately, itâs been a long kind of struggle â Iâm not finished, of course â towards a mature faith, whatever that is. This film Silence is one that took me a long time to pull together.
Jay Cox and I wrote the script, based on Shusaku Endo, his novel, and it took so long because I didnât know how to write it based on the script. I didnât know what he was getting to. Finally, I think I got it. I think. Iâm not sure.
Ultimately, itâs a struggle towards the very essence of faith, not certainty. Right now faith, I donât know, at a certain level is very surface⌠the kind of thing Iâm dealing with here and even The Last Temptation of Christ is not fashionable. But, it doesnât mean it isnât true. It doesnât mean you donât do it with conviction. It doesnât mean there isnât room for it. We may wind up against a wall, who knows. But, what is faith?
[Terrance] Malick wrote me a letter when he saw the picture and he said, âWhat does Christ want from us?â Itâs interesting, but itâs not in-demand.â
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Silence was my favorite movie of that year. An unappreciated masterpiece.
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1) Jesus was back on the cross, saying "it is finished" at the end of the Last Temptation of Jesus Christ. He fulfilled his role as Savior, after struggling with his humanity. I wish the local town minister I grew up in, my pops, would have actually watched it. He would have loved it.
2) Silence is, in my opinion, Martin's best film. I realize I'm coming from a different experience so I'm looking at them differently. The priest that abandoned Jesus to save the lives of the villagers did the most Christian thing he could have done- sacrifice himself for the innocent!
3) thank you so much for shedding a light on the themes present in Mr. Scorece's films. I look forward to rewatching them with this on mind.
4) you've earned a Patreon.
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Scorsese is a gem. Every current and upcoming filmmaker owes him. I am more than willing to give him 20 years of my life. May he live long and continue making great films
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Being a christian who wants to be a filmmaker, Scorsese is really really interesting to me! Now I really want to watch more of his films (Iâve only seen 4) to see this relationship with faith they have!
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After seeing "Silence" in 2016 Terrence Malick wrote Scorsese a letter asking "What is it that Christ asks of us?" That same year, Malick would start production on his own film examining that same question: "A Hidden Life" I write more about Malick's letter and the conversation between the two films in the latest issue of my newsletter: thomasflight.substack.com/p/malicks-letter-to-scorâŚ
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