Name: How Martin Scorsese Creates Tension in ‘The Irishman’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T08:44:25.000Z
Duration: 5 min 4 s
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"It is an honor for me to be here tonight

to present this award to my dear friend, Mr. Frank

"We're talking about a sequence that takes

You have this wonderful reception for Frank Sheeran,

who, really, it's a highlight of his life.

All the representatives of the power structure

and it's to support Hoffa over Tony Provenzano.

"Underlying all that, you have the darker elements,

which are the men who are in real control

"Any case, from the deepest part of my heart,

But I have bursitis, and I don't deserve that, either."

"The structure of the scene is all about the looks.

where Russell gives Frank this special ring

had to be weaving all the sense of a celebration,

so to speak, or family gathering, weaving all that

"It has a very melodramatic tragedy to it.

You know, a sweetness and a sadness at the same time."

"(SINGING) Say you and your Spanish eyes--"

"It's like you go to an event, and there are factions.

And one faction may be polite, but they're not

During that time, certain things are said.

Looks are given, which are harder than words.

A whole sequence revolves around Anna's--

Peggy, that is-- picking up of the subtext

I mean, particularly even Anna Paquin said,

when she did the dancing shot, and she looks over, and she's says,

"Only three people in the world have one of these,

I have one, Angelo has one, and now you have one."

That entails seeing a little more of the body language

And there you see them in that environment

If it's too close, I think you objectify it in a way.

was to get them in the frame in the wide shot, looking

down, as Jerry Vale is singing in the background.

They're like the gods overlooking this world

There's one shot-- from their point of view,

of Jimmy walking around and suddenly saying hello

to Angelo Russo, played by Harvey Keitel.

Pacino were never in the same frame together in any movie."

"Things have gotten that with our friend again.

And some people are having serious problems with him.

going to have to talk to him and tell him

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How Martin Scorsese Creates Tension in ‘The Irishman’ | Anatomy of a Scene

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