come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? did you say? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this old heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without us tli monday? oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i d go with you. the last picture show was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid- 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford type movie? no. i think it s a peter bogdanovich type movie. peter bogdanovic loved movies, had a sense of movie history, but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script. and i said, i d like to get that depth of feel, everything being sharp, the way you did in citizen kane, touch of evil.
this has been going on for 20 minutes now. what is he looking for? says he has to find the perfect dozen. perfect dozen? yeah, each egg has to be perfect. there started to become a genuine independent film movement. and sun dance institute had everything to do with it. the idea of starting sun dance was that i felt i d grown up being a part of the major film industry because that s all there was and i was very fortunate to be part of that, but as time went on i became more aware of other stories that could be told. they could be told by people less inclined to be commercially attractive. they were different. they were off beat, but they were stories that i felt should be told. women are lonely in the 90s. it s our new phase. we ll live. there was a sudden recognition because of the success of films that came out of that festival. and it drove such a profound change into main line hollywood. say, man, you got a joint? no, not on me, man. it d be a lot co
[ gunshots ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. Goodfellas is like fasten your seat belts, im going to kick the shit out of you for 2 1 2 hours and youre going to love it. There have been so many gangster movies, so many mob movies. Is it really possible that in 1990 Martin Scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that hasnt already been said so many times and you watch the movie and youre, like, yeah. What are you doing . Youre leaving your car . We try to capture the exuberance of that world. Its dangerous and threatening, but theyre having a wonderful time. Goodfellas as the nuts and bolts of the mob. It was the mob as a job. What are you doing . What . What do you do . Im in construction. And the balance of these two families, your mob family and your real family, and the way the two start to bleed into each other. Are you all right . Are you all right . Yeah. Huh . Yeah. Goodfellas was based on a book called wise guy and i read it and said what
the rocky horror picture show was a tradition that played only at midnight, and it was like some cabaret vaudeville participatory experience. how many times have you seen it? 56. around 100. this is my 301st time. that was the rites of passage to adulthood. your parents said, can you go out and see a movie, and it s okay if it s the rocky horror picture show. saturday night fever was the movie to chapter the whole disco in a way that was exhilarating. in saturday night fever. the music was essential to the story but wasn t part of the characters in the story. i don t know why that was a complete shift in how musicals were adapted. john trovolta is not singing and dancing. he s just dancing and the music is part of the narrative.
thing. and look at what john trovolta does, uma thurman, bruce willis. it was slick, it was fast. it just rewrote the rules of the way you could make film. die you [ bleep ]. you constantly have to pay attention because you have all these characters who are somehow connected and you start to figure it out only as the movie goes on. i love you, pumpkin. i love you, honey bunny. you know a tarentino film the minute you see it. it s such a fanfare of a new kind of filmmaker. swingers came out of this cocktail 50s nustalgia culture and kind of became a phenomenon.