MARTY’S METHOD
A MENTOR ROLE IN THE UPCOMING IN THE HAND OF DANTE IS THE LATEST IN SCORSESE’S ON-CAMERA FORAYS
In Quiz Show.
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Fishy business in Shark Tale
DREAMS (1990)
ROLE: Vincent van Gogh, artist
SCREENTIME: Three minutes
MOST MEMORABLE LINE: “The sun, it compels me to paint! I can’t stand here wasting my time talking to you!” Two masters of cinema united for Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa. An art student encounters van Gogh, played by Scorsese. Kurosawa was nervous to cast him —he asked mutual friend Francis Ford Coppola if Scorsese would be insulted. Scorsese was equally anxious: “I was so nervous that I had to stop drinking coffee,” he told Empire in 2019. Still, he stated, “You don’t say no to Kurosawa,” and flew to Japan the day after GoodFellas wrapped.