Did Martin Scorsese lie in Life Itself?
In Life Itself (2014), Martin Scorsese says because of Roger Ebert, his life was saved from drugs before Raging Bull.
Martin Scorsese: During the '80s was extremely...I was gone, basically. Broke, and I'd gone through some bad, bad periods. My third marriage had broken up, and I was basically alone. The only thing that saved me or made me want to... continue just like living, in a way, was my agent called this festival up in Toronto." I said, "Yeah." "Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, ........................(I skipped it). And I started my life again, you know.
But what actually happened is Robert De Niro saved Martin Scorsese from drugs. So what explains this discrepancy?
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Taken from Signature-Reads:
MARTIN SCORSESE: The only good thing about the drug use is that it was very obvious in my case. And I just had to go to that brick wall. Nobody was going to tell me otherwise, whether it was a rock 'n' roller, or a studio executive, or an actor. People can try to guide me, but I always have to go my own way.
RS: The only reason I bring it up is because it's part of the public record of your life.
MS: Right. After "New York, New York" I was exhausted to the point where a number of people were worried about my health. I said, "Don't worry, I'm fine." And then after the Labor Day weekend in Telluride, at the film festival, I got back to New York and suffered a total collapse. That's when I finally went to the hospital, and that's when De Niro came to visit and asked if I wanted to do the film. Really, we had been working on it since Taxi Driver. I realized I had nothing else to do. I had exhausted all the possibilities. Even my friends were all going off on their own. I was alone. And it was time to go back to work. And what I discovered - it's in "Raging Bull" and it's in the other pictures later on - is that I had to come to terms with something.
So, it seems Scorsese saved his own life, but DiNero had a hand in it. Or, possibly a conversation with Ebert at that film festival caused the initial collapse. Tough to tell.
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