Martin Scorsese is an influential American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor known for films such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas. He is considered one of the most important American filmmakers and has won numerous awards including Oscars, Golden Globes, and BAFTAs. Goodfellas and Gangs of New York are two of his most famous films that utilized innovative filming techniques like freeze frames and different camera angles to portray important moments and get inside the characters' minds. Taxi Driver also depicts the descent into violence of a troubled Vietnam veteran working as a taxi driver in New York City.
1. Martin Scorsese
Martain Scorsese is most famous for being a American film
director,screenwriter,producer an actor and also a film historian.
Martin founded the world film foundation, he has won a life
achievement award, for his contributions that he had given to the
cinema, and Scorsese also won an academy award, BAFTA’s and
golden globes,
Scorsese is one of the most influential American filmmakers of all
time, he has directed flims such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver,
Raging Bull and goodfellas. He is also famous because he
received five Oscars for best Cinematography, best visual effects
and also best sound editing. He was nominated for three golden
globe awards and martin Scorsese earned his award for best
director.
The key films that martin Scorsese worked on were goodfellas
Were goodfellas, which is a true story, based on Henry Hill and his
thirty year connection with the Italian mob. Martin Scorsese used
many different styles of filming techniques such as freeze frames,
tracking shots , the techniques he used were really good different
camera angles and also different lighting a lot of visuals going on
in the characters mind. In the film freeze frames are used example
at first the audience does not know the purpose of the shot but
then you realize they represent all moments of Henry’s life.
Goodfellas also uses still shots, he makes good use of the lighting
low and high key are used, overall in this film still shots are used
the most because each of them represented a important moment
in Henry’s life they were the most powerful ones in the whole
movie.
Another key film that Scorsese worked on was Gangs of new York
made in 2002, this movie is about Vallon returning to America to
seek revenage against a gangster who murdered his father years
ago. In one of the scenes of the movie, they use a speed
technique were two men are speaking to each other and another
man hits him and he falls to the ground then theirs a freeze frame.
Another film martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver, this film was about a
mentally unstable Vietnam war verteran that suffered with
2. insomnia he works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York city, were
it turns to violence and he attempts to save a teenage prostitute.