Ty Burr : Marty On !

A friend informed me (Merci !) of this long interview with Martin Scorsese on The Departed, Shine a Light and his next movie Ashecliffe based on Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island, at Boston.com (05.04.2008). Mr. Scorsese talks Boston :

TB: I grew up here and I still can't find my way around.

MS: Thank you! I mean, downtown New York is bad, but this is crazy. The historic area is beautiful. That's what made us realize in "The Departed" that the rooftop at the end should be one of the old restored buildings rather than going to a modern building. We got up to the top of probably the highest building in Boston and looked around and saw sky. And of course at the end of the original "Infernal Affairs," you look around and you see the hills of Hong Kong all around you. We see nothing here. Nothing! So, all right, let's go retro. Let's go to the old Boston.

TB: You shot that down in East Boston?

MS: Yep. The seagulls were all over the place, all over the track. There were certain seagulls I really fell in love with. But that was interesting because these poor guys are playing out this tragedy on top of this roof, and there's 300, 400 years of history and class war, and them fighting this undeclared war where no one knows where they stand.

Ah, I love these passages... pourquoi pas !