6 Scorsese films with DiCaprio: from worst to best

After this filming, Martin Scorsese was going to leave cinema. “I wouldn’t be able to work if I had to make a movie like that again,” he said in a recent interview. “The rules were not satisfactory, sometimes I thought I would not be able to survive. I would have died. I decided it was all over, seriously.” We are talking about Harvey Weinstein, the film’s producer at the time. Positive side: Marty meets Leo, and from that moment the story (the movie) changes forever. DiCaprio is Amsterdam Vallon, a petty thief who becomes the protégé of “Bill the Butcher” (Daniel Day-Lewis). Braggart, romantic (featuring Cameron Diaz), irresistible. A couple was born who were destined to stay.

The film (inexplicably) has its detractors, even among the director’s fans, but Leo is “totally” cast as one of the producers – in this case Howard Hughes – who built Hollywood (by literally destroying himself). Performance”more than lifejust like the Dream Factory, among greatness(myth)mania, entertainment which will never become fashion. DiCaprio, already nominated for an Oscar 11 years ago for his role support From Happy Birthday Mister Grapereceives first nomination from leadsand Scorsese’s first film. Among non-protagonists, Cate Blanchett will win. How Katharine Hepburn, but the road to Olympus is still clear.

This is the last game that, in a few years, will inevitably tell us whether it will stand the test of time (including in terms of interpretation of the protagonist). But this is the “birth of a nation” inspired by Devin Grann’s essay novel Red Earth Assassins, this is already a classic. Leonardo is Ernest Burkharthandsome devil a Great War veteran who marries a Native American (Lily Gladstone) out of interest, but naively opens his eyes (too late) to the slaughter of an entire population at the hands of American capitalism. For the first time on the big screen, Leo meets another Scorsese fetish, Bob De Niro: epic. This will be (another) nomination, we are sure of it.

Ostensibly an action film (and the one that won Scorsese his first Oscar for Best Director – it’s about time!) Gone It’s also an actor’s film. A master class in which Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin and, again, the inevitable Leonardo DiCaprio will appear in more or less important roles. This time it’s Billy Costigan, a boy from a famous crime family who, in order to join the police, convinces the Department to recruit him as an infiltrator. Classes with Vera Farmiga were unforgettable. And everything else, of course.

Structured like a Nolan-style puzzler (sorry, Marty), suspended between Hitchcock and pure horror, it centers on Edward Daniels, a federal agent sent to Shutter Island’s Ashecliffe Hospital, a facility that specializes in treating mentally ill criminals. Despite himself, he will discover that the truth hidden behind these walls is different. And this concerns, unfortunately, himself. The ending is exciting. One of DiCaprio’s best performances in one of Scorsese’s most underrated films. Leo would have deserved an Oscar, but instead the Academy didn’t even nominate him this time: shame!

“Selling” a pen, seduction with Margot Robbie, “luxurious dinners,” parties on a yacht. And, of course, Kwalud. If there is one iconic role (sorry) above all else in the Martin-Leonardo pairing, it can only be Jordan Belfort, the wolf who turns out to be a lamb in the New York bonfire of the vanities. Between the American dream that is fatally shattered, the idea of ​​a movie that transcends everything (even itself), and show of force With interpretive direction at the heart of the film, the pair have probably never performed better on the big screen than this. 5 Oscar nominations and not a single statuette: have we already said – the Academy is a disgrace?