fellow filmmaker and best director winner Martin Scorsese who was ripped in The Critic for “lazily” making mob movies and other projects that are “routinely an hour too long.”Putting it rather bluntly, del Toro Tweeted “If God offered to shorten my life to lengthen Scorsese’s- I’d take the deal.” “This man understands Cinema.
Defends Cinema. Embodies Cinema. He has always fought for the art of it and against the industry of it. He has never been tamed and has a firm place in history,” the “Shape of Water” director continued in part of a lengthy thread.He also took aim at Critic author Sean Egan who wrote the hit piece, calling it “sloppy” at best.“I very, very seldom post anything contradictory here- but- the amount of misconceptions, sloppy innacuracies and hostile adjectives not backed by an actual rationale is offensive, cruel and ill-intentioned,” del Toro posted. “This article baited them traffic, but at what cost?”Egan specifically blasted Scorsese’s 1980 boxing epic “Raging Bull,” calling the Robert de Niro flick “across-the-board bad filmmaking.” The critic continued, saying that the director has been “simply moving the furniture around” with redundant films since his blockbuster hit “Goodfellas” in 1990.To be clear: If God offered to shorten my life to lengthen Scorsese's- I'd take the deal.
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