mls@husky.uucp (Mark Stevans) (10/31/85)
Where are those sharp eyes out there in movieland? Or maybe it's just my imagination, but I think that director Martin Scorsese appears in one scene of his movie After Hours. Does anyone feel the same as me? Does anyone disagree? How about you? Mark Stevans ritcv!husky!mls
citrin@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne Citrin) (11/03/85)
In article <252@husky.uucp> mls@husky.uucp (Mark Stevans) writes: >Where are those sharp eyes out there in movieland? Or maybe it's just my >imagination, but I think that director Martin Scorsese appears in one >scene of his movie After Hours. > >Does anyone feel the same as me? Does anyone disagree? How about you? > Martin Scorsese does indeed appear in "After Hours." He's the guy holding the searchlight in the punk club. It seems that Scorsese, like Hitchcock, likes to make cameo appearances in his films. He was in "Taxi Driver" as the crazy guy in the cab who introduces Travis to the .44 Magnum, and he was in "The King of Comedy" as the TV director just before Rupert appears on Jerry Lewis' TV show. Of course, he appears in "The Last Waltz" as himself. Can anyone complete this list? I haven't seen "Raging Bull" and I don't recall if he was in "Mean Streets." How about "Boxcar Bertha"? By the way, on the matter of what kind of film "After Hours" is, I wouldn't use the term "horror film" to describe it. It's a comic thriller (thriller is a broader genre than horror). In fact, probably without intending to, Scorsese has produced in "After Hours" a film closer to the spirit of Hitchcock than anything anyone else has done, particularly Brian DePalma. Wayne Citrin (ucbvax!citrin)
reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (11/04/85)
In article <252@husky.uucp> mls@husky.uucp (Mark Stevans) writes: >Or maybe it's just my >imagination, but I think that director Martin Scorsese appears in one >scene of his movie After Hours. Indeed, he does. Scorsese has made cameo appearances in most (perhaps all) of his films. -- Peter Reiher reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher
render@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/04/85)
Written 2:34 pm Oct 31, 1985 by mls@husky.uucp in net.movies */ > Where are those sharp eyes out there in movieland? Or maybe it's just my > imagination, but I think that director Martin Scorsese appears in one > scene of his movie After Hours. I think that it is Scorese in the nightclub scene. He is the one in the elaborate outfit (he looked like a marching band leader) who is flashing the spot light around the crowd from atop some sort of platform. An interesting analogy for his work as the movie's director, I thought. To expand the discussion a bit, I saw the movie at a late showing at a downtown theater. There were a number of people outside when the movie finished and I have to admit to being a bit freaked out by what would normally have appeared to be a typical weekend crowd. It says something when a movie has that strong an effect on you. (Help! The paranoids are out to get me!) Hal Render {pur-ee, ihnp4} ! uiucdcs ! render render@uiuc.csnet render@uiuc.arpa