Martin Scorses Reflections on His unstable response to a film studio threatened to cut the end For his 1976 filmTaxi driver, An eye -opening new Apple in TV+ documentary.
Oscar winning director Rebecca Miller is the subject of a five-part series, titled Mr. Scorste, Which includes absolutely new revelations about One of the most prestigious filmmakers in the world,
Miller said, “It was coming out of a more hypocrite period, which was part,” Miller told The Sunday Times Outbreak of scholars. “It was actually like a wild vest, the film-producer really got up for chaotic things.”
He continued: “He is definitely not proud of his behavior. I could see his own embarrassment, which I really got endurance, but it’s not a job for him, being a director. It is not a coat that you can take off. It’s. Him. So if his film was being threatened, He Was being threatened. ,
Row over Taxi driver When Columbia chief Stanley Jaffers told Scorses that she needed to re -cut the violent end, as the US motion picture was threatening to give an X rating to the association.
If he refused, Jaf clearly said, the studio cut the film himself by Robert de Nero.
“When I lost it,” Scorsce says in the film, remembering how he gathered his friends, Steven Spielberg And screenwriter John Millius. The pair reached their apartments, so that she claims that she wants to receive a gun and is threatening Jaf with it, or broke into the studio and stole the film’s print.
In documentary, Spleberg Recalling a distressed call from Scoresi, which was “very upset” about being asked to reduce the graphic content of the film.
“Steve, Steve, It’s Marti, Steve. Can you come home?” “They recalled the phone calls of the Scorses.” They want me to cut all the blood, they want me to cut all the blood, they want me to cut the man who loses his hand. “
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While Scorscs denied being a gun at that time, they admitted to threatening to acquire an acquisition. “I was going to find one,” Schoers said. “But I was not going to get it, really?” The Oscar winner said: “I was angry and said that I am going to threaten them or maybe just shooting or something, I did not know, I mean I was threatening.
“What I wanted to do, and not with a gun, I will go in, find out where the rough cut is and breaks the windows and takes it away. They are going to destroy the film anyway, you know, so you know, so I will destroy it. I will destroy it but before destroying it I am going to steal it.”
The Scorscs said that Spielberg and others intervened, told him: “Marti, Stop K, Marti, you can’t do that.” Eventually, the Scorscs solved the issue by “toning” the color of the sequence in question, a solution Spielberg credited the violence with “saving the film” by avoiding any cuts.
Miller said, “He would never have killed anyone,” Miller told The Sunday TimesThe Scoors told him that he felt the violence “scary”, while he reflects the nights, which he spent cocaine with composer Robbie Robertson: “The problem is that you enjoy sin. I enjoyed it very much when I was bad.”
Despite the controversy, it bounced to its graphic violence at the end of the film, and for her casting of 12 -year -old Jodi Foster as a child prostitute, the taxi driver was an important and commercial hit.
The documentary series, which includes additional interviews with friends of Scorses and associates with colleagues, including Dero, Daniel Day-Lavis and Leonard Dicaprio, is scheduled to release on Apple TV+ on 17 October.