Martin Scorsese has added another TikTok, courtesy of his daughter Francesca.
The new video sees the filmmaker trying out the platform's movie ranking game, where two film posters appear on screen and the user picks between them. It’s a silly game and somewhat cringe to see Scorsese partake in this.
What got the snobs over at Twitter talking, though, was Scorsese picking Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu’s “Birdman” over Sergio Leone's “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, and again over Quentin Tarantino's “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.
I did not know this, but, apparently, Film Twitter doesn’t like Inarritu’s Best Picture winner. Snobs. “Birdman,” although flawed, is fantastic. The 2014 movie starred Michael Keaton as a faded Hollywood actor whose fame peaked in the '90s when he played a superhero named Birdman.
Now, would I pick “Birdman” over Leone or Tarantino’s films? I’m not sure. But there’s definitely a lot of unwarranted hate being served against the film, and for no good reason. If anything, its Best Picture win, over “Whiplash,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and “Boyhood,” turned out to be a major disservice to its reputation.
It’s widely known that the entirety of Birdman was made to look like one continuous shot, something that at points overshadows how good the screenplay actually is. Regardless, I still can’t get out of my head the scene where Keaton’s Riggan is locked out of Broadway’s St. James theater, in just his tighty whities, and being forced to walk down a crowded Times Square.
On a moment by moment basis, “Birdman” might just be the best film Inarritu has ever directed, that or “Amores Perros.” His other notable films include “21 Grams,” “Babel,” “The Revenant,” “Biutiful” and “Bardo.”