A box office bomb upon its release in 1983, the satire has since gained recognition for its prescient take on the cult of celebrity
could have been the end of Martin Scorsese. The film opened on 18 February 1983; about a month later, Universal pulled it from cinemas. It made back $2 million of its $19 million budget. The director then crawled off to make the cheapest film he possibly could, and prove himself worthy of studio cash all over again.The Departed– it’s easy to forget the fact that he thought he was finished by 1981.charmed reviewers but not audiences.
Scorsese was in rough shape, recovering from pneumonia and undertaking a punishing schedule of therapy which had him in analysis five days a week and talking to his doctor over the phone at weekends. On set Scorsese kept reshooting and reshooting, at one stage taking two weeks to get a single scene right.
Pupkin meets Langford – played by comedy legend Jerry Lewis – when he helps him out of a scrum outside a taping of his late night show, and it soon becomes clear that a simple thank-you won't do for Pupkin as a reward. He wants a slot on Langford's show, the break which could put him on the map. Langford tries to let him down gently, and Pupkin embellishes his chance encounter into a friendship to his fellow superfan Masha .
. Pupkin’s attempts to get on stage are pathetic and fame is frightening, yes – in the opening sequence Langford is nearly ripped apart by fans outside his stage door – but look at Langford’s gilded life and tell me being famous isn’t worth it.We’re now very used to the illusion that fame and the famous are closer to us than ever before.
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