Martin Scorsese is one of the most influential filmmakers in cinema and has helped all of us treasure the history and art of cinema.
The auteur believes that each project he takes on should add something of value to the viewer, himself, and the art of cinema. But not everyone is a fan of the filmmaker.
In an essay recently published by the Critic, writer Sean Egan berates Scorsese by calling him an “uneven talent” whose “self-indulgence” has “debased his talent.” Egan goes on to criticize The Wolf of Wall Street for being “achingly slow,” Raging Bull for having “across-the-board bad filmmaking,” and Goodfellas as a “grand exercise in futility.”
The essay made its rounds today, especially on film Twitter, where Guillermo del Toro came online to defend Scorsese against the “offensive, cruel and ill-intentioned” essay.
In the tweet, del Toro wrote, “…[T]he amount of misconceptions, sloppy inaccuracies and hostile adjectives not backed by an actual rationale is offensive, cruel and ill-intentioned. This article baited them traffic, but at what cost?”
Author: Alyssa Miller
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