According to a new documentary about his life, the Oscar winner Martin Scorsese threatened a weapon when he bought in a film studio in a film studio. After reading his taxi driver from 1976 in which Robert de Niro played the leading role, he flew into such anger that he threatened to take the law into his own hands.
“Marty was very annoyed,” says Steven Spielberg. “We get a call in the office: 'Steve, Steve, it is Marty. Can you come to the house? You want me to get the whole blood, you want me to cut the guy that loses his hand.”
“He went crazy,” added Brian de Palma Brian de Palma. “I mean the story is that he wanted to kill the studio's head.”
Scorsese himself claims that his plans are a little less extreme, even if he claimed at the time he intended to buy a weapon. “I don't know. I was angry. I said I would threaten her or maybe just shoot it or something. I had no idea,” he says.
Instead, the actual plan of the director comprised a different kind of crime. “What I wanted to do – and not with a weapon – I would go in, find out where the rough cut is, and the windows break and take back,” he explains.
“You will still destroy the film, so let me destroy it. I will destroy it. But before I will destroy it, I will steal it.
“Spielberg said:” Marty stop! Marty, you can't do it! “And the more they said no, the more I said I would do it.”
The scenes come from an Apple TV+ documentary series, Mr. Scorsese, which examines the life and work of the director, which relate to access to his private archives. It contains interviews with family, friends and colleagues, including de Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sharon Stone, Margot Robbie and Mick Jagger.
It was not the first time that the director made violent threats during the manufacture of taxi drivers. He also appeared in the film as a passenger who wanted to murder his wife after discovering her infidelity and performing a calm monologue with racist language and threats of violence in connection with weapons.
Ultimately, a compromise was impressed to the processing crisis, which means that taxi drivers could keep controversial blood -soaked scenes. In the words of Spielberg: “It saved the film because he did not have to do violence. He only had to bring the color red to one color brown.”