Film director Martin Scorsese speaks to Vatican about
his latest movie
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday met the
Oscar-winning movie director Martin Scorsese whose latest film “Silence”
recounts the persecution of a group of Jesuit missionaries in 17th century
Japan. In an interview with Vatican media, Scorsese spoke about his latest
movie project, his past films, his life growing up in the noisy slums of New
York and why he now values silence so much. Scorsese spoke to Vatican Radio’s
Sean Patrick Lovett.
Scorsese said the making of his latest film “Silence” was a
long-term project plagued by obstacles and interruptions due to ill health and
other issues. He described how the actual shooting of the film with many
of the outdoor scenes filmed in remote mountainous terrain, often ankle-deep in
mud, was physically very gruelling for him and all the others involved but he
never wanted to abandon the project.
Asked about the film’s title and what silence meant for him,
Scorsese explained that it had taken him a long time over the course of his
life to learn to seek out and appreciate the value of silence. He described how
he grew up in the tenement slums of New York amidst a “cacophony” of sound from
the streets and surrounding houses and the only silent place he could find then
was in the old St. Patrick’s Cathedral of New York City, saying “I spent a lot
of my time there.” Scorsese revealed that as part of his recent quest for more
peace and quiet in his life, one of the rooms in his house has been specially
sound-proofed.
The Oscar-winning director spoke about some of his earlier
films which he said were full of noise and often very “frenetic” but pointed
out that in this latest movie there is no music on the soundtrack and instead
there are the background sounds of the landscape and the birds. He described it
as a way of “finding out what silence sounds like.”
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