Mean Streets
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets...
Plot:A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Cast & Crew
Robert De Niro
Harvey Keitel
David Proval
Amy Robinson
Richard Romanus
Cesare Danova
Victor Argo
George Memmoli
Lenny Scaletta
Jeannie Bell
Murray Moston
David Carradine
Robert Carradine
Lois Walden
Harry Northup
Directing
Martin Scorsese
Camera
Kent L. Wakeford
Sound
Eric Clapton
Charles Grenzbach
Walter Goss
Glen Glenn
Editing
Sidney Levin
Crew
Sandra Weintraub
Costume & Make-Up
Norman Salling
Fun Facts of Movie
- This marks the first film collaboration of director Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. They would go on to make nine films together, as of 2019: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Casino (1995), and The Irishman (2019).
- The innovative use of the hand-held camera was largely down to the fact that the film’s meager budget didn’t stretch to laying down lots of tracks for all the tracking shots.
- When raising money for the film, Martin Scorsese was offered a healthy sum by his mentor Roger Corman on the condition that he shoot the movie with an all-black cast because black exploitation films were big at the time. Scorsese had to turn Corman down. Corman said in an interview years later that the film was a great Italian film, but it would have been just as great as a black film.
- The voice-over narration in the opening of the movie (“You don’t make up for your sins in Church; you do it on the street; the rest is bullshit and you know it.”) is actually not said by Harvey Keitel (the character we are intended to believe is thinking these thoughts), but Martin Scorsese. Scorsese felt that using a separate voice to make the distinction between Keitel’s thoughts and actions was necessary. Scorsese borrowed this technique from Federico Fellini, who used it in I Vitelloni (1953).
- Francis Ford Coppola contributed money to the budget of the film.
- Clearing the songs for use in the film ended up being approximately half of its budget.
(Source: IMDb)
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