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Martin Scorsese wouldn’t have made Mean Streets without John Cassavetes. Cassavetes pushed Marty to make real, authentic stories about his own experiences. Cassavetes’ advice gave us Mean Streets. It gave us a lifetime of mastery from Marty. So much of cinema is mentorship.

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On this day, 52 years ago, John Cassavetes' "The Ki!!ing of a Chinese Bookie" (1974) was released in the USA. John Cassavetes explaining why he made the movie: "'A Woman Under the Influence' (1974) was the first picture I’ve had anything to do with that wasn’t made out of plain, simple feeling, but rather out of a real desire to do something in my profession. It was extremely frightening for me not to come to work out of enthusiasm and instead put myself up as something of a craftsman. Earlier films such as 'Shadows' (1958) and 'Husbands' (1970) grew out of personal experiences reaching all the way back to my childhood days. They were expressions of my innermost feelings, and now that I’ve dealt with all that, I feel obligated to view life in other terms. I want to explore other areas of human and artistic experience. I made 'The Ki!!ing of a Chinese Bookie' (1976) as an intellectual experiment– not because I am in love with it. I enjoy a more intellectual and less emotionally demanding view than in my previous work. If I can make, out of certain intellectual ideas, films that are complex in their nature, then I’m entering into new ground. And that is certainly something I look forward to. It is a film that has little to do with me and with how I feel about life. It’s interesting to me to see how other people live in our society, to look at them and ask myself, ‘Why do they do it? And how do they do it?’ Without trying to explain. The fun and challenge of the film was to imagine a self-contained world different from the one I live in: to move into it and live in it." ("Cassavetes on Cassavetes", edited by Ray Carney, 2001)

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"When I made the 'Pusher' Trilogy I stole everything from Ruggiero Deodato, Gillo Pontecorvo, William Friedkin and I guess also a lot of 'Mean Streets' (1973)" --- Nicolas Winding Refn Full Excerpt: "Interviewer: Right. Now, watching your movies, I think there is a lot seventies American cinema. Was that an influence on you too? NWR: Oh, yeah, definitely. When I made the Pusher Trilogy I stole everything from Ruggiero Deodato, Gillo Pontecorvo, William Friedkin and I guess also a lot of Mean Streets. Interviewer: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I think Pusher, especially the first one, is like your Mean Streets. It has the same edge and grittiness and vital power to it. Even if your movies are in a way more nihilistic and pessimistic. NWR: Yes, that's true. Interviewer: But speaking of Scorsese. I think you did the same thing with the Pusher Trilogy. I mean, of course it is a genre movie, it has all the elements, but it is actually more like a way for you - at least that is my impression - to talk about your characters. NWR: Oh yeah. The Pusher films are not about drugs or about crime in any way. They are about people in a criminal environment, which was very much what Mean Streets was about. I guess there is also a lot of Killing of a Chinese Bookie in it. It's all about the people, but you use a genre universe to set them in, because genre is just a very good way to work in a commercial medium." ('A Conversation with Nicolas Winding Refn' with Paolo Gilli, Ard Vijn, SchreenAnarchy, 2010) Clip from: Pusher (1996) Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

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"I wrote this story ['Gloria' (1980] to sell, strictly to sell. I really didn’t want to do that movie. Columbia insisted I direct it, which I really didn’t want. Too commercial. I like to make movies that don’t go." --- John Cassavetes Full Excerpt: "'Gloria' (1980) was an accident. Of course, I believe the business is a meta physical thing – no rules apply. The phone rang and it was Dick Shepherd, who’s at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and he said, ‘We’ve been very successful with a kid’s story, The Champ. You don’t happen to have a story about kids, do you? If you could come up with something for Ricky Schroder, I’d buy it immediately.’ So I wrote a very fast-moving, thoughtless piece about gangsters. And I don’t even know any gangsters! I sent it over. In the meantime, Schroder signed to do a picture with Walt Disney, so MGM lost interest. And then my agent Guy MacElwaine said, ‘I like this script very much, let me give it to Columbia,’ and I said, ‘OK.’ So they sent it to Columbia, and a couple of days later he called and he said, ‘I have some good news and some bad news. One, they like the picture very much and want to buy it. And they want to have Gena in the picture.’ And I said what’s the bad news. ‘The bad news,’ he said, ‘is they want you to direct it.’ So that’s where we started. I wrote this story to sell, strictly to sell. I really didn’t want to do that movie. Columbia insisted I direct it, which I really didn’t want. Too commercial. I like to make movies that don’t go. Besides that, I didn’t like killing off an entire family to make a picture. In the end, I decided that it is a story of violence, but less physical than emotional violence." ('Cassavetes on Cassavetes', edited by Ray Carney, 2001)

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