Martin Scorsese

• Has directed some of the most iconic thriller movies of all time, including Goodfellas and Taxi Driver, therefore I decided to look at his work in preperation for making the film, because he is a well established director of thriller movies.
• He often uses Robert Di Niro in his films.
• Scorsese often uses a clip from the middle or end of his film right at the start of the movie. We are using this idea technique in our film as we keep constantly coming back to the shot of the antagonists eyes.
• Often uses strong, white lighting.
• He often has main charcters who are sociopathic or want to be excepted into society. This is the case with our main charcter as he has a psychotic obsession with the protagonist.
• Martin Scorsese often uses long tracking shots. He most famously does this in Goodfellas, where he follows Henry Hill and Karen through the basement of a nightclub to a table. He has been dubbed the 'King of the Tracking Shot'.
• Often uses freeze frames (Raging Bull, Goodfellas and The Departed).
• His movies often start with by telling the audience about the charcters childhood.
• Like Alfred Hitchock, Scorsese is often a cameo in his films. He also gives family memebers cameo's and in Goodfella's his Mum plays Joe Pesci's mother.
• The violence in his films is realistic. We feel that the violence in our film is realisitc as we think that the violence is driven by passion and therefore more realistic because there is a motive behind what our charcter os doing.
• Often zooms into a charcters face. We have used this technique in our opening, as we have used a close up shot of the antagonists eyes.
• His main charcter often does a voiceover in the film. Scorsese believes that this gives the audeience an insight into the charcters life.
• The protagonists in his films see women as either a saint or a whore, calling it a 'madonna-whore' complex. The charcters do not understand why it when women do not fit either one of the sterotypes. To highlight this the women in his films often wear white and are captured in slow motion to show they are angelic, however as the movie progresses the women turn out to be anything like an angel. This is something that we have chosen not to adopt in our film and instead we have decided that our female charcter will be the innocent one in our film.