Have you noticed that the characters in Scorsese movies are either losers that end up killed, in jail, captured, getting a lobotomy or living in misery??? No happy endings, no heroes, no triumph, no saints… just failures.
shareThere are no happy endings in life. Go Marty.
shareI am sure that Scorsese will totally agree with you and that is exactly my point.
For a true and well formed Christian (which Scorsese is NOT), The end of mortal life is just beginning. A happy ending if you follow Jesus.
Stories about people who fail themselves and others with their choices in life have just as much to teach us as stories about those who succeed. Maybe more. This goes all the way back to classic Greek tragedy.
shareLet me edit your post title: Scorsese makes GREAT movies about losers.
Haha.
That's the reason why I hate his movies and love Michael Bay movies. I hate losers.
shareEveryone in life loses at some point or another. Scorsese isn't glorifying the worst losers, he's simply examining them, so that we can see just how often they might have turned their lives around if they had made better choices. But they never do. Those particular films work as powerful cautionary tales, a genre of storytelling that's as old as human culture.
And, unlike the characters in Michael Bay's films, they're actual flawed, striving, stumbling human beings, not one-dimensional cutouts.
Scorsese makes movies about Assholes. Not Losers. You can be unlucky at life and not be an Asshole. You can be poor and not become a murderer or a mobsters.
shareFor the most part, yes, although there are exceptions.
I'd argue that Father Rodriguez isn't a loser - in the very last, final shot of the film.
Hugo, Color of Money, Last Temptation of Christ, and Cape Fear aren't, ultimately, about losers, either, depending on perspective.
I find antiheroes much more intriguing than heroes. Of all the movies I've watched, Taxi Driver was one of the most thought-provoking.
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