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QuoteMartin Scorsese met with Pope Francis in Rome on Wednesday and gifted him with a photo book for his Oscar-nominated movie Killers of the Flower Moon, ahead of attending the pontiff's weekly general audience."The dialogue between Martin Scorsese and Pope Francis continues... two men of genius and experience for whom the figure of Jesus Christ holds an extraordinary fascination and value," Antonio Spadaro, Undersecretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, wrote of the meeting in a post on X.Footage of the meeting shows Pope Francis flicking through the lavish photo book as Scorsese is seen talking animatedly on the other side of a large desk.Scorsese was then seen joining hundreds of other people at the general audience in the Vatican City alongside wife Helen Morris, at which the Pope gave a lesson on the destructive nature of uncontrolled anger.The director's trip to the Vatican comes just weeks after he told The L.A. Times that he had completed a screenplay for a film about the life of Jesus, which he hopes to shoot this year.The work is adapted from the book A Life Of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, who was also the author of historical missionary tale Silence which Scorsese brought to the big screen in 2016Scorsese has met Pope Francis on a number of occasions and attended his Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination conference last May, which gathered hundred of artists from around the world to discuss the Roman Catholic faith's relationship with art.The director announced on the fringes of the conference that he planned to make the film about the life of Jesus film, saying: "I have responded to the Pope's appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus."
QuoteAfter his Oscar-nominated epic Killers of the Flower Moon and a sci-fi Super Bowl ad, Martin Scorsese will return to the realm of faith for his next project. We recently learned his adaptation of Shūsaku Endō's A Life of Jesus, which will be around an 80-minute, mostly present-day film in which he intends to capture a universal look at Jesus, will begin production this year. Now, thanks to a 1.5-hour Berlinale conversation Scorsese took part in with Joanna Hogg on the occasion of receiving his Honorary Golden Bear, we have a few more details on his approach.Scorsese says, "It took me quite a number of years to be able to come to terms with the script of Silence, because I didn't quite fully know how to handle the scene in which [Andrew Garfield's character] apostatizes, where Jesus tells him, 'Step on me. That's why I was created.' I know that he found something deeper and I want to go there now. And I don't know what it is. I'm not quite sure. But I think part of it is reexamining or trying to come to terms with the idea of a sort of universal compassion. And I think I try to deal with that in Kundun also."He adds, "But here I think it has to do with, for me, the concept of Jesus, this idea of Jesus. Who he is, what is he, and what does it mean to me personally, and why am I going there? Maybe I'll find the way. I don't think I'll find an answer, but I'm going to try to maneuver my way through it to maybe come to some sort of a sense of peace, really, or at least some sort of comfort––not for myself, for others, we hope. Sometimes these things speak to other people, too. I mean, Silence did. Last Temptation [of Christ] did. Many people told me that, others not. That's all I know, really."The conversation also touches on landmark viewing experiences for Scorsese, including works by Bergman, Antonioni, and Pasolini, why it's important to wear the right shoes while on set, how Cassavettes convinced him to make Mean Streets, crafting his female characters, how each of his films is a separate universe and why he doesn't want to revisit certain works, and much more.Watch below, with the conversation beginning around the 14-minute mark.
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