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Martin Scorsese - popcorn filmmaker?
While screening Julie & Julia last night, I saw something that struck me as very odd:
The movie Shutter Island was being advertised on popcorn bags.
Wow. That might be a first for Martin Scorsese. Then again, I almost never get popcorn at the movies (I refuse to pay the exorbitant price on principle), so maybe I missed the Gangs of New York, The Aviator or The Departed popcorn bags. (At this point, I can only ruefully wonder what the Age of Innocence or Kundun popcorn bags would have looked like).
It makes me wonder how Paramount views the film. Do they see Shutter Island as “just” a thriller? Scorsese movies automatically raise the specter of Oscar, even though he finally won his, for The Departed. But then again, when The Departed was about to come out, the buzz was that it was “just” a police thriller …
Looking back on Scorsese’s work, I think the only film of his that can truly be called a popcorn picture is Cape Fear - and even that cuts a little deeper than most popcorn movies.
Odd. Very odd.
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