Auteurism martin scorsese biography

 [film clip: The Magic Box, by John Boulting]   

That scene was from a picture called The Magic Box, which was made in England in 1950. The great English actor Robert Donat plays the inventor William Friese-Greene – he was one of the people who invented movies. The Magic Box was packed with guest stars. It was made for an event called the Festival of Britain. You had about 50 or 60 of the biggest actors in England at the time, all doing for the most part little cameos, including the man who played the policeman – that was Sir Laurence Olivier.

I saw this picture for the first time with my father.  I was 8 years old. I’ve never really gotten over the impact that it had. I believe this is what ignited in me the wonder of cinema, and the obsession – of watching movies, making them, inventing them.

Friese-Greene gives everything of himself to the movies, and he dies poor. He dies a pauper.  That line – “You must be a very happy man, Mr. Friese-Greene” –of course is ironic, knowing the full story of his life, but in some ways it’s also true because he’s followed his obsession all the way. So it’s both disturbing and inspiring. I was very young.  I couldn’t put this into words when I saw this, but I sensed them. I sensed these ideas and these things and saw them up there on the screen.

My parents had a good reason for taking me to the movies all the time, because I was always sick with asthma since I was three years old and I apparently couldn’t do any sports, or that’s what they told me. But really, my mother and father did love the movies. They weren’t in the habit of reading, that didn’t really exist where I came from, and so we connected through the movies.

And over the years I know now that the warmth of that connection with my family and with the images up on the screen gave me something very precious. We were experiencing something fundamental together. We were living through the emotional truths on the screen t

Introduction

Conveying the primary ideas of a given film is an essential task for the director. Various creators have proven themselves to possess striking artistic vision, which significantly differs from ordinary directing. Such authors as Steven Spielberg and Ingmar Bergman have drastically changed the industry of filmmaking, implementing their unique styles and approaches (Goodykontz et al., 2011). A prominent theoretical construct often applied to these directors is auteurism, a strategy that highlights the creator’s role in the process of moviemaking. In this work, Martin Scorsese will be discussed as an influential auteur director, whose films “The Departed” (Scorsese, 2006) and “The Irishman” (Scorsese, 2019) are instances of outstanding authorship, that further develop film storytelling.

The Theory of Auteurism: Recognizing Artistic Vision

The concept of an auteur director was developed as a means of analyzing the director’s vision when considering a specific work. The theory’s originator, Francois Truffaut, stated that any filmmaker presents his artistic views through certain themes and styles that they utilize when directing a movie (Goodykontz et al., 2011). Truffaut coined a construct that offered an understanding of the director’s main ideas while forcing a great responsibility for the work’s affluence on the creator. To improve the theory’s application possibilities, an American critic Andrew Sarris proposed additional criteria that distinguished auteur directors by examining their films’ technical competence, distinguishable personality, and interior meaning (Goodykontz et al., 2011). According to Sarris, a prominent auteur should produce works of exceptional quality and technical traits that must be recognizable to the viewer (Goodykontz et al., 2011). After that, the personality of the pr

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Martin Scorsese is one of the few New Hollywood directors who have consistently made auteur commercial feature films up to the present. Many critics claim he is the most accomplished artistically of these directors, who include the equally successful but more mainstream Steven Spielberg. After New Hollywood’s fall in the late 1970s, Scorsese remained connected to the world of independent film as well as the Hollywood film industry. Since his earliest days as a director, he has negotiated between artistic autonomy and commercial demand. As Scorsese reminded Bernard Weintraub in 1995, his calling as a filmmaker included a dedication to making personal, honest, and creative films. This is what has made Scorsese an icon of American independent film up to the present. This status has been buttressed by an extensive public story that since its beginnings in the late 1960s has remained remarkably consistent in its overarching themes and tropes.

Scorsese’s public story is about a filmmaker who has made personally relevant and artistically powerful movies but also has sought the big budgets and mass audiences only Hollywood could provide. His public story is the embodiment of la politique des auteurs that informed the independent film community. This theory in the 1950s and 1960s celebrated film directors who incorporated personal vision within commercial feature film, whether the classic films of Jean Renoir and Howard Hawks or the postwar art cinema of Akira Kurosawa and Jean-Luc Godard. This theory informed the New Hollywood renaissance. Scorsese is an archetype of the auteur filmmaker—a position of commercial independent film set between avant-garde experimental film and mainstream Hollywood film. That Timothy Rhys would provide in 2002 such a vivid description of the autonomy of Scorsese in MovieMaker, an independent film magazine, is testament to the