
As a filmmaker, and as a person who can't imagine life without cinema, I always find it really insulting," he said. how much it made in the entire world, how many viewers it got. Understand that a film costs a certain amount, they expect to at least get the amount back… The emphasis is now on numbers, cost, the opening weekend. This is not a great movie, and only really worth watching if you are trying to complete Nicolas Cages filmography. "Since the '80s, there's been a focus on numbers.
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A small-town lawyer defends a Black father on trial in Mississippi for taking vengeance on the white men who brutally attacked his young daughter. Scorsese also regularly goes to bat for less commercially oriented directors, slamming Hollywood's fixation on box office performance over artistic merit in October 2022. 1996 Maturity Rating: 16 2h 29m Thrillers. As the rapists are being brought to their arraignment.

Jackson plays Carl Lee, a black man whose daughter is brutally raped by two racist rednecks. Scorsese Slams Hollywood's Focus on Box Office Numbers I have seen almost every one of the movies that have been adapted from John Grishams novels. Discovery CEO David Zaslav to ensure Turner Classic Movies' programming remained "untouched and protected" after a wave of layoffs at the network. Notably, Scorsese recently teamed up with fellow acclaimed filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson to lobby Warner Bros. In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan. The Oscar-winning director is known to share his passion for film in other ways, as well.


Scorsese's distaste for the "10 Best Movies" lists reflects his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema, which he has demonstrated in numerous interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes features throughout his career.
