Diary entries forMean Streets
Mean Streets
Martin Scorsese first big film, and one of his most important throughout his career. I didn’t connect with this as much as many other Scorsese films but the acting was great and plot was fun. The music is phenomenal and any gangster fan should watch this.
Mean Streets
Mean Streets isn’t just a gangster movie it’s a raw, restless portrait of guilt, friendship, and trying to stay afloat in a world that’s already decided your fate. Scorsese doesn’t romanticize the streets; he bathes them in flickering neon and Catholic guilt
Mean Streets
Scorsese allowing these characters big time moments in a life entirely devoid of big time. There's a later shot where we trail out and away, getting a distanced view of the neighborhood and the cacophonies of the street are finally muted. It gives way to just how tiny and cordoned off it all is, the scope of all their efforts, successes, failures measured out in city blocks. Same with that moment in the cemetery where Charlie has perhaps a sense of foreboding as he glimpses just one of many windows into that wider world; different dominoes falling, same physics. So many of his films make me feel like I'm wedged in shoulder to shoulder in the backseat and only able to watch helplessly as the glare of oncoming headlights streak past.
Mean Streets
mesmo no começo da carreira, já dava pra perceber o caminho e a identidade que o Scorcese queria levar pro resto da vista, um grande diferencial pra maioria dos diretores de hoje em dia esse filme é caótico mas da melhor maneira possível
Mean Streets
Mean Streets is gritty and raw, giving an early look at Scorsese’s style and themes. The performances, especially from De Niro, stand out, even if the story feels loose and uneven at times. Overall, Mean Streets is an engaging crime film that’s rough around the edges but full of personality.
Mean Streets
Incredible soundtrack. Keitel and De Niro is fantastic. Marty fell in love with De Niro. Love how Keitel and his friends were watching The Searchers.
Mean Streets
57/100 What are the fucking chances that I watched two films in a row with the song “Be my baby” playing in each, that exact song at the ending of Barbarian and at the beginning of this movie. I had Mean Streets downloaded for more than a year and now that I finally got around to it, I am massively disappointed. It really feels like a nothing movie and until Scorsese himself shot down De Niro, I had this rated even lower because the streets would’ve been a joke. This film focuses entirely on Johnny’s gambling ass and Charlie trying his best to abide by his faith and help his friend. Charlie really is the perfect guy, he’s kind, he’s helpful, he loves a girl who others cast out because of false prejudice and doesn’t treat them like shit, he’s not racist and he just wants to get his own line of work running. He’s the ideal man. Unfortunately for him, he’s friends with De Niro’s Johnny who frankly is beyond help. He pulls out the gun because he’s helpless, he knows he’s fucked and thinks Charlie can bail him out one last time and maybe not even that, he’s frustrated and he can’t get anything right. You feel for him by the end but you also realise that he’s got nowhere to go. But tiny altercations and several pointless conversations with constant music in the background really serve us a bunch of nothing. Old is not always gold. I understand this is a 70s film but you gotta give us something to remember it by. And honestly I would’ve liked if they took advantage of that atmospheric New York more like they did in Taxi Driver but perhaps this was Scorsese learning for his future endeavours.
Mean Streets
a film full of criminals and the worst offender by far is de niro’s hair/hat combo
Mean Streets
Robert de niro ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mean Streets
Amazing how much sauce Marty already had. That Be My Babymontage is as good as anything as he’s ever done.
