problematic attic

lmao so why did scorsese remake this 23 years later

yeah i get it. american dream bleakness all around greed etc etc etc. let’s do it more in your face make the most obvious filming choices and make pacino four times more intense. oh. and don’t forget to make it three hours long. nice 40 minutes at the start and like 20 at the end

HOW do you make the first 20 minutes of this film (AND get a close up of a dead ryan. AND deliberately don’t show his face) and then decide *uhh yeah fuck that actually god bless america* i wrote a 66-page paper on american exceptionalism in US presidential discourse with a genuine belief that *no, of course its for politicians and school assemblies. we’re all in on the joke, right? *guess at least now i see why americans still enlist in the army * (it could have been a 3/3,5 stars bc of its technical craftsmanship but i’m pissed the fuck off. what the fuck are you all on about)*