Martin Scorsese

Filmography:

• Taxi Driver (1976); 

Genre - Crime, Drama

Star/lead role - Robert De Niro

BBCi films:  

• 'Still Shocks three decades on' - Matthew Leyland - 9 July 2006 BBC - Movies - review - Taxi Driver
• 'Scorsese has you in his grasp' Leyland says that it is a self-confessed steal from the 1956's 'The Searchers'

Catholicism: 'When Travis's plans don't turn out the way he hoped, he shifts the blame away from himself by professing a belief in predestination, claiming he fails because he is meant to be "God's lonely man."' http://www.sparknotes.com/film/taxidriver/themes.html

• The Last Temptation of Christ - Drama
• The Colour of Money - Drama/Sport

Catholicism:

Religious views and ideas are represented and seen throughout Martin Scorsese's films and he also filmed 'The Last Temptation of Christ' which is a film about the live of Jesus and how he lived and was resurrected. Also when he was a young boy studying, he wanted to become either a priest or a film director. 

Genre:

Most of Martin Scorsese's films are more mafia films and crime drama's which involve police or undercover police whom are wanting something but failing and blaming it on God. They are usually after a girl and it always involves guns. 

Style:

Martin Scorsese's films are all mostly realistic, simply because they are all Drama's and have real content in them and he doesn't use any sci-fi features in his movie. 

Auteur: An introduction to Film Studies - Second and Third edition - Jill Nelmes

This means that any film that a Hollywood director creates has ownership on adaptations and are also guaranteed to have a audience and income/profit. An auteur director is one who brings to a film signs of their own individuality - perhaps in the way the narrative is constructed, the way certain themes are explored or in the visual style.

Stars:

Scorsese is Italian and usually roles actors whom are Italian or Italian/American's. Most of his actors/actresses he en-roles for the roles are Stars, he uses actors such as Robert De Niro and Tom Cruise. 

How is Scorsese an auteur?

Scorsese is an auteur because he uses big Hollywood stars to act in his films, also he is a well known Director because of his influencial directing as his films even to this day from three decades ago, they are still shocking and draw the audience in. He is known for his good directing and his religious references.