John Cassavetes encouraged Martin Scorsese to make something personal. The result, Mean Streets, started a filmmaker's reign at the top.
The whole movie feels like life in New York; there are scenes in a sleazy nightclub, on fire escapes, and in bars, and they all feel as if Scorsese has been there.”
Scorsese had, in fact, been there. He based the film on his experiences growing up in Little Italy in the late 1950s. Harvey Keitel, who starred in, plays Scorsese stand-in Charlie. A standard-issue conflicted Catholic , Charlie is the closest-to-moral member of the gang of hoods who are front-and-center of this story. We are introduced to each one of them during an opening sequence: There’s go-go bar owner Tony , inventory-moving hustler Michael and mailbox-exploding loose cannon Johnny Boy .
As a sharp-dressed collector for a powerful mafioso , Charlie tries to keep the peace with everyone around him. He constantly has to clean up the messes made by Johnny Boy, who owes everyone in the neighborhood money—including Michael, who wants him to pay up. Charlie’s also having a secret romance with Johnny Boy’s mouthy, epileptic cousin Teresa and raise all kinds of loud ruckus, from fighting with trash can lids to popping off gunshots on a rooftop.
The streets were just as mean to Scorsese when he began looking to getGetting financing was so tough, Scorsese briefly considered making the film with Corman, who wanted Scorsese to turn it into a Blaxploitation film. Thankfully, Jonathan Taplin, tour manager for The Band, came through with money for the budget when he became the movie’s producer. I guess this is also where Scorsese started his relationship with The Band and late frontman Robbie Robertson .
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