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Scorsese likes it so they use his name???

posted 8 years ago by Robert_222
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I watched this the other day on Netflix and the very first credit that comes up says "Martin Scorsese Presents"

So I looked it up and Martin had absolutely nothing to do with the making of this film...He just liked it a lot. This is just confusing to me. How are they allowed to wave his name around like that? And why would Scorses allow this? It just seems like a cheap stunt. Obviously when Scorsese's name is attached to a film, it's going to get a lot more views and attention. It might also change the perception that people have of the film. It didn't fool me, but I can guarantee that the average joe will see that name and think..."Oh hey this is a Scorsese movie. It'll be great!"

ANyway, what did you think when you saw that?

[–] mechafi 8 years ago

Well, maybe Scorsese really liked the film and gave his permission (and probably even suggested) to use his name to advertise it. I have the European DVD release and I don't recall seeing Scorsese's name anywhere on it but maybe it's on the American version.

As to whether it is misleading to claim that Martin Scorsese "presents" this film, I think that in the past saying that someone "presents" something although they really had nothing to do with it was more common. Nowadays such a claim would, I believe, suggest some kind of contribution to the work being presented and the usage here could be a bit archaic. But in theory you could say that Scorsese "presents" this film to the American audiences as his endorsement probably makes it more popular/widely known.

I'm not that enamoured with Scorsese that I would really care if he recommended this or that. European films on average are of higher standard than American films and are more usually worthy to take a look at.