Extended Reading
  • Josianne 2021-12-08 08:01:44

    Martin's first important work

    Poor streets: I heard that you like violence?

    Violence is always pervasive in Martin Scorsese's films, and "Poor Streets" is an important work in which he shows off.

  • Tia 2021-12-08 08:01:44

    Mean Street

    Scorsese’s early works, strong personal stylization, editing and editing, OST full of exotic style, hand-held lens brings a full sense of realism and vitality, restore the feast of New York in the 70s, living on the edge of the poor streets. Emptiness, loneliness and restlessness. De Niro plays a...

  • Lela 2021-12-08 08:01:44

    You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. The rest is bullshit and you know it. Martin) "Youth with nowhere to put". Slow motion, editing, and composing are all too cool

  • Cathryn 2022-04-21 09:02:07

    It was also in 1973 that Lucas shot "American Style Painting". Like the old horse, the camera was aimed at the young American people who were roaming the streets. The same light narrative and heavy atmosphere can see the influence of the new wave on them. , and since the beginning of this film, the old horse has also established his own motif, the anxiety of immigrants, the fate of the gang, and the cooperation with De Niro spanning half a century, the billiard hall chasing long shots is also a very old horse label.

Mean Streets quotes

  • Giovanni Cappa: This Johnny Boy is like your mister Groppi... a little crazy. It's nice you should help him out because of his family and our family but watch yourself... Don't spoil anything. His whole family has problems... his cousin, the girl who lives next door to you...

    Charlie: Teresa.

    Giovanni Cappa: ...The one who's sick, right? In the head.

    Charlie: No, she's got epilepsy.

    Giovanni Cappa: Yeah. That's what I said, sick in the head.

  • Michael Longo: [showing a picture of his new girlfriend] You think she's good-looking? She's smart, too. She's gonna be a teacher.

    Tony DeVienazo: Let me see that. Oh, I know this girl.

    Michael Longo: Yeah?

    Tony DeVienazo: Yeah... I saw her kissing a nigger under a bridge.

    Michael Longo: What? What do you mean?

    Tony DeVienazo: A nigger. As in black. A nigger.

    Michael Longo: But what do you mean?

    Tony DeVienazo: [rolls his eyes] I mean... kissing. Her lips on his lips. Kissing.

    Michael Longo: [worried] I kissed her.