Martin Scorsese Movies by Trivia

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Although Scorsese is famous for being an "auteur" of his films, it was Paul Schrader who came up with this classic story about a lonesome guy who is rejected by women, visits porn theaters and who's obsessed with guns. It was actually a description of Schrader's own situation in life.

Noir classics "Out of the Past" (1947) and "Vertigo" (1958) were shown to cast and crew as a preparation for this movie.

The Jews have American accents while the Romans have British accents.

Scorsese delivered the part "Life Lessons" which is approximately one third of this film. The other two parts were directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen.

The greedy protagonist of this semi-biopic was himself inspired by the movie character Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas.

The last shot in which a man directly shoots "into the audience" is an homage to the 1903 silent short classic "The Great Train Robbery".

Scorsese had to remake a Hong Kong flick to get an Oscar.

The word that starts with "F" and ends with "uck" is delivered each 24.5 seconds - considering a length of 178 minutes, it's a total of 435 F***s given.