"Mean Streets" ( Martin Scorcese )

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"Martin Scorsese achieved critical acclaim with his feature Mean Streets (1973), a film which also began his long collaboration with actor Robert De Niro. The film was an independent production in an era when that meant something different than it does today. It first meant that the film was low budget, and director Scorsese overcame this with strong performances and creative and powerful visuals. The film was also produced in the early 1970s when this sort of socially relevant, dramatically developed film was more the norm than it is today, and independent films had the aura of a counter-culture statement even when they dealt with more mainstream subjects. This film shows how a filmmaker could take what actually was a mainstream subject--the gangster film--and recreate it as a character study that extended beyond what was normal for this..."

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