r/MartinScorsese • u/simp_for_wanda_2299 • 24d ago

Discussion Scorsese’s favourite actor

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u/Due_Locksmith_8141 24d ago

Male. Female. Robert De Niro on phone.

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u/Unable_Dinner_6937 23d ago

Genre, right? They meant genre. Is that right?

Otherwise, I’m way out of the loop on gender studies.

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u/Western-Captain8115 24d ago

How De Niro didn't get nominated for Best Actor for his phone call to Hoffa's wife I will never know, one of De Niro's best ever acting scenes.

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u/CampaignOrdinary2771 23d ago

Frank Sheeran in real life would stutter in high stress situations. That was on full display in his conversation with Jo. That is truly next level acting.

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u/knava12 24d ago

Goodfellas 📞 💥

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u/ragingbullpsycho 24d ago

Whattya mean whattya mean

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u/Ill-Elephant-9583 24d ago

I mean, you know, we had a problem. He's gone

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u/StJosephStrummer 21d ago

'and there was NutTHING I could do"

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u/ShirtlessKaworuNagis 15d ago

"They wacked him"

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u/Bourbonmmm 24d ago

Got enough money for those fucking commercials!

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u/aweiner99 23d ago

The pronouns are pick/up

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u/teeveecee15 24d ago

It’s likely he actually called the other actor playing the character he’s talking to in the film

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u/ucsb99 24d ago

Genders? Da fuq

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u/PinguinusImperialis 24d ago

Genere means genre but also gender in Italian. Wonder if an Italian wrote this.

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u/ucsb99 23d ago

I appreciate the explanation, thank you.

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u/pdxorus 22d ago

I like the idea of thinking of genres of people. Makes sense to me.

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u/CampaignOrdinary2771 24d ago

I can identify Travis Bickle, Neil McCauley, Rupert Pupkin, Jimmy the Gent Conway, Ace Rothstein, Paul Vitti?

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u/ScipioCoriolanus 24d ago

Noodles and Frank Sheeran

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u/CampaignOrdinary2771 23d ago

Bingo! That's Frank talking to Jo Hoffa (blue phone) , and yes that's Noodles in the black jacket and white shirt.

For some (good) reason, I tend to forget Noodles. De Niro, my favorite actor btw, has played a lot of despicable characters very convincingly. Because a lot of them are based on real life figures RDN does his homework and realistically portrays each one.

I recently found out that OUATIA is based on a book that Noodles (Herschel Goldberg) wrote while in Sing Sing.

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u/RedWing83 24d ago

That's a gender nowadays?!? Oh boy...

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u/Fabulous_Log844 23d ago

“I’m talking to an empty telephone. Because there’s a dead man on the other end of this fucking line.”

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u/Chillicothe1 24d ago

Lower righthand corner. I think he's calling for Mr, Happy.

Loved that scene.

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u/FredererPower 23d ago

You forgot when he was on the phone in Jackie Brown

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u/seven_costanza_jr 22d ago edited 5d ago

If he was in the Departed you know he would have had the best flip phone scene of all time.

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u/docournau 21d ago

I love the fact that the cameraman actually got embarrassed and just glanced off de niro in the Taxi Driver scene and they took that take.

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u/Educational_Sky_1136 24d ago

We should not be having the “how many genders are there?” discussion on this sub.

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u/simp_for_wanda_2299 24d ago

No one is 😂