Imagine if ‘Raging Bull’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ were in 3-D. Director Martin Scorsese can. He told the CinemaCon crowd that he wishes both of his landmark films had been three-dimensional. In fact, Scorsese has become so enamoured with 3-D filmmaking that he expects to use the technology in all his future projects. Scorsese is so convinced of the power of 3-D, he said he saw ‘Hugo’, his first 3-D movie released to critical acclaim last year, only once in 2-D. “There is something that 3-D gives to the picture that takes you into another land and you stay there and it’s a good place to be,” he said. Scorsese spoke at a filmmaking panel alongside director Ang Lee, who won an Oscar in 2006 for ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Scorsese and Lee are among a growing crop of prominent directors who claim 3-D technology is the future of filmmaking. Scorsese said he never thought he would have the opportunity to make a 3-D film. He said conquering the technology was challenging at first, but he decided to experiment and watched 3-D versions of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Dial M for Murder’ and ‘The House of Wax’, the 1953 horror film, for inspiration. Scorsese compared 3-D to the rise of colour movies. He said as a film student at New York University in the early 1960s, he was shocked when he heard predictions that all future movies would be filmed in colour. Scorsese will next direct ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio, marking their fifth film together. It’s expected to begin shooting this summer in New York.
