A Martin Scorsese Original! Student Film Now On Youtube!
Here it is.
Made in 1963, this 9-minute, Black-and-White, Eclectic Piece shows just what the guy is made of. A Dead-pan Dark Comedy, it follows the life of Algernon (Harry to his friends), an aspiring writer, and what happens to him after he acquires a painting of a boat. Well he gets obsessed with it, thats what happens! He tries to get over it, to reclaim what little life he had, to write at all, but to no avail. He goes to an analyst (Ah, the sixties,) holds parties, gets laid, gets married, goes on honeymoon, has children, but is still obsessed :(
Eventually, he becomes so obsessed, well, you can probably guess what's coming. Or maybe not. Watch the film. It's as funny as only the Dead Pan-est of comedians can be, has Excellent Avant-Garde Direction (lets see who can identify all the Scorsese fixtures!) Editing of the kind that can only be found in the fifties or very good parodies of Narrative-driven, documentary style films of the period, and the Script! This from Scorsese? Who knew!
Seriously, Watch It!
That link again, is.
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