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Scorsese himself received death threats
- According to Roger Ebert in his book Scorsese, Scorsese himself received death threats, having to cancel public appearances for some time and seek protection from the FBI.
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Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese looks back on his troubled past with drugs in the 1970s that led to him being hospitalized.
- By Adam Horowitz
- Battle #3: Lack of Confidence in His Work
- Battle #5: The Censorship Board
- Battle #7: Cocaine and Its Emotional Toll
- Battle #8: Cocaine and The Physical Toll
I've been reading Peter Biskind's scrumptious chronicle of 1970s Hollywood, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and one thing I've learned is that even in that wonderfully liberated climate - with the old studio system collapsing and hippie visionaries seizing power - becoming a successful filmmaker and then staying a successful filmmaker was as hard as eve...
After high school, Scorsese went to the seminary to study for the priesthood, but soon decided to follow his true passion, enrolling in the film program at NYU. The two movies he felt most inspired by were Citizen Kane and Shadows (John Cassavetes's landmark independent film). After struggling for four years to complete his first feature, Who's Tha...
The ending of Scorsese's brilliant 1976 film Taxi Driver is very violent and bloody; in one shot, a man gets his fingers blown off in full visual detail. Afraid that the picture would be dealt an X rating, Columbia Pictures wanted Scorsese to revise the ending completely, to cut out all the violence. Scorsese was enraged at the suggestion.
But soon addiction took over and there was no looking back. At the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, while giving interview after interview, Scorsese ran out of cocaine and found it impossible to continue.
Scorsese describes the above period as a two-year abyss from which he barely came out alive. He makes no bones about it: it was about self-destruction. In his words: "It was a matter of pushing the envelope, of being bad, seeing how much you can do. Embracing a way of life to its limit. I did a lot of drugs because I wanted to do a lot. I wanted to...
Dec 8, 2016 · In 1978, Martin Scorsese nearly died. Years of hard living and drug abuse finally had caught up with the filmmaker, and yet he continued to push himself, until one day, he collapsed.
Dec 8, 2016 · Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has opened up about the near-death experience that drove him to become a success, revealing drug abuse and chronic asthma put him in hospital for 10 days 50 years...
Dec 9, 2016 · Martin Scorsese has opened up about the near-death experience that drove him to become a success, revealing drug abuse and chronic asthma put him in hospital for a number of days 50 years ago.
Mar 23, 2024 · According to Roger Ebert in his book Scorsese, Scorsese himself received death threats, having to cancel public appearances for some time and seek protection from the FBI. The film stands...
Mar 7, 2024 · Some in the Catholic church called it blasphemous, and Scorsese received death threats for making it, but it received critical acclaim and earned the director an Oscar nomination.
