Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have now made six motion pictures collectively: Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Avenue, and final yr’s Killers of the Flower Moon. (Seven if you wish to depend their little-seen quick “The Audition.”) The 2 males have virtually 25 years of inventive historical past collectively — and their very own historical past is knowledgeable by movie historical past, as Scorsese loves to offer his solid and crew traditional movie homework to look at to assist inform their work and provides them a way of the kinds of moods and appears he desires to create in his personal movies.
DiCaprio and Scorsese revealed just a little little bit of that shared historical past in a brand new 15-minute video for Letterboxd the place they talk about the assorted motion pictures that knowledgeable DiCaprio’s performances and Scorsese’s personal productions. You’ll find out how the Polish traditional Ashes and Diamonds pointed the way in which in the direction of Scorsese’s The Departed, and which William Wyler movie was the central inspiration for his or her method to Killers of the Flower Moon.
DiCaprio additionally revealed the one movie that he confirmed to Scorsese that he hadn’t seen earlier than: Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. Watch their dialog beneath:
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Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t do a ton of interviews, and I’ve barely seen him in any respect speaking about Killers of the Flower Moon partially as a result of the actors’ strikes was nonetheless happening when the movie was launched. So it was good to see him and Scorsese discussing their work collectively on this free, casual setting. I’d like to hear them do a full-length commentary observe for certainly one of their movies this fashion.
Killers of the Flower Moon is now obtainable to stream on Apple TV+.
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