THE NEW HOLLYWOOD (VII) THE NEW HOLLYWOOD
Scorsese De Niro meets
Scorsese De Niro met at a dinner. At the turn of the conversation, they discovered they had grown up just blocks away from each other. They sympathized immediately. De Niro, who took his job very seriously as an actor, do not go out and was very talkative. He was shy to the point that it was difficult to find a job.
"You will not find him at the police station," recalls the casting director Nessa Hyan, speaking of him as she would a good student. De Niro read "Mean Streets" and accepted the role of Johnny Boy. Harvey Keitel will play Charlie, a character in the Scorsese picture, shared between the Church and the Mafia.
Most interiors were shot in LA in fall 72. "To Mean Streets, I had to learn how it was actually a movie, Scorsese says. I had not learned to make films in film school. What you were taught, is to express with images and sound. But making a film is completely different. What matters is the people and the shooting schedule. That means you'll have to get up at 5 am to be here. Let's turn. "
After a first screening of" Mean Streets ", De Niro, Scorsese, his girlfriend and several others were left at the restaurant for what should be a debriefing. But De Niro and Scorsese to disappeared toilets and discussed the film there for two hours. Only.'s girlfriend told Scorsese more: "What Marty and De Niro were together they did in private. No woman was accepted. "
After finishing postproduction of "Mean Streets, Scorsese flew to show a copy of the Coppola film.
"That's how Coppola has seen De Niro, Scorsese reported.
Immediately, he began in" The Godfather Part II "...
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