Martin Scorsese's 'What Happens at Night' Was Rewritten By Paul Thomas Anderson

And he’s done everything! He had a hit family film decades after his gritty seventies movies.

Arguably, I would say *Taxi Driver* & *Raging Bull* were hist best films. His entire filmography is excellent. But I believe those two films, the former especially have been the most innovative in cinema

sure but like usually when people talk about his early works they mean mean streets, alice doesnt live here anymore, taxi driver

Calling it a "WILD take" is literally mocking it.

Calling opinions stupid is not the same as respecting them. Or is this part of the new timeline we're on now?

Who cares? I can put whatever I want in my top 3,5 etc. Watch me say Hugo is the best Scorsese film.

It’s not a debate about which movie is his best, it’s just a guy saying which one he personally enjoyed the most. Not everything needs to be ranked on an objective scale

Agree. with the subject matter it would have fared better as a TV show instead we got a rushed ending to glance over the atrocities that took place.

They personally enjoyed it more than those movies, is that a good enough reason for you?

Lily Gladstone’s performance in Killers is one of the best in Scorsese’s entire body of work. I would have no problem placing it in contention with any of those movies, if only for Gladstone’s work.

Taste is very much subjective. For example, I don't really care about *The Departed*.

Hot Rod is in my top 5 movies of all time. I know it is not an objectively good movie, but I love it. Not everything is based on Letterbox reviews. People love some movies that I don’t like and hate movies that I love, there’s no reason to be found

No mention of after hours? Casual. /s

Easily could’ve cut a half hour.

I agree. Really liked the story but the run time killed it for me. I love Scorsese and am a big movie guy, but the last 45 min felt like 2 hours to me. Really drug at the end.

Loose and unfocused describes most of his films, even his greatest. That’s kind of his thing. He even said *The Departed* was his first film with a plot. Usually the structure is a bit “this happened and then this happened and then this happened…” with a tighter focus on the characters rather than an overarching story.

Every Scorsese movie ever

I mean...fair enough, hah. As I take a gander, *Killers* (or any movie in my rough top 10) could quickly fall out if I liked it just a bit less. I need to revisit some that I haven't seen for an odd decade or so, but a quick and dirty list (which certainly has its own hot takes) might be: *Taxi Driver* *The Age of Innocence* *Goodfellas* *Silence* *Killers of the Flower Moon* *Raging Bull* *After Hours* *The Last Temptation of Christ* *Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore* *The Irishman* And you know, I'm probably more liable to throw on *The Departed* or *The Wolf of Wall Street* than many of these. Point being that it's a tough top 10. Still have to see *Who's That Knocking,* *Boxcar Bertha*, *New York, New York*, and *Kundun.*

I kinda feel like you are more upset than any of the people you are talking about

Yikes. Grass is right outside but I see you’re already shucking corn on this march evening.

Wild. Absolutely wild.

A film doesn't have to be over three hours to be too long.

> If you're complaining about a movie being too long then you just don't like watching movies. This is the easily worst take in a thread of questionable takes

Lol wtf? You’re saying if someone doesn’t want to watch a lengthy movie, they don’t like movies? 

This has me overjoyed

This is an Oscar player and releasing it in limited release in December and expanding in January is typical of these types of films.

I loved how it was realized. It’s one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen, overflowing with the feebleness of being human. The inescapable desire everyone has to be liked and cherished. Taking enemy lands but more concerned with your older wife cucking you. I adored it. The sniper didn’t even bother me because Plunket sniped a French general and his aide in the early 1800s using the Baker rifle. All Ridley did was have a character strap his eyeglass to his rifle. Barely period inaccurate, completely acceptable for a fictionalized account of a life, for me anyway

Not to me.

It’s one of Ridley’s greatest achievements. It makes me laugh and cry. The closing monologue from Josephine beyond the grave is remarkable. Their push and pull power dynamic is hilarious and overflowing with life. The sequence where they stay up all night arguing, flipping the power dynamic back and forth is unbelievably funny and tender. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen and it being reviled makes me feel even more certain that it’s his late career Blade Runner. The Counselor is another totally misunderstood master work from his late career. If he’s being trashy and/or funny, it seems that very few people get it, but I am one! Loved seeing GDT coming out in support of The Counselor as one of his favorite films this century. When Ridley passes, one or two decades from now, his career will be reevaluated with more warmth and understanding

Oh he’s DEFINITELY getting paid for rewrites, but I wouldn’t imagine more than 1 million max per script, but he’s probably made 15-30 million from his own productions