{"id":4953,"date":"2020-02-04T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2020-02-04T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:03:07","slug":"pretty-much-pop-podcast-martin-scorsese-the-auteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Much Pop podcast: Martin Scorsese the Auteur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pretty-Much-Pop-Martin-Scorsese.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4954\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pretty-Much-Pop-Martin-Scorsese.jpg 800w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pretty-Much-Pop-Martin-Scorsese-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pretty-Much-Pop-Martin-Scorsese-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I appear on <a href=\"http:\/\/prettymuchpop.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/pmp29-scorsese\/\">the latest episode of <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/prettymuchpop.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/pmp29-scorsese\/\">Pretty\u00a0Much\u00a0Pop<\/a><\/em>, a podcast curated by Open Culture, to discuss the films of Martin Scorsese. Though prompted by the release last year of Scorsese&#8217;s latest feature <em>The\u00a0Irishman<\/em>, preparation for the discussion convinced me to launch into a complete re-watch of Scorsese&#8217;s filmography. Here&#8217;s the official episode description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We consider the highly lauded 2019 film\u00a0<em>The Irishman<\/em>\u00a0in the context of Scorsese\u2019s body of work and the styles and themes that his films tend to exhibit. Writer\/podcaster\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Marshall<\/a>\u00a0joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to talk about what we do and don\u2019t connect with in Scorsese\u2019s work and how these films qualify as \u201cart films\u201d despite their watchability, not to mention the big budgets and stars. We cover CGI age alteration, the connection to\u00a0<em>The Joker<\/em>, his comments about the Marvel franchise vs. him being a franchise unto himself, his use of music, and making films as an old guy. We hit particularly on\u00a0<em>Raging Bull<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Taxi Driver<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Bringing out the Dead<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The King of Comedy<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Goodfellas<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Gangs of New York<\/em>, \u00a0<em>The Departed<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Casino<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Silence<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Cape Fear<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colinmarshall\/status\/1205700595820052480\">my Scorsese filmography Twitter thread (still a work in progress) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appear on the latest episode of Pretty\u00a0Much\u00a0Pop, a podcast curated by Open Culture, to discuss the films of Martin Scorsese. 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Here&#8217;s the official episode description: We consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}