American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
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| American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince | |
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| Directed by | Martin Scorsese |
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| Produced by | Bert Lovitt |
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| Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
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| Distributed by | New Empire Films |
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Running time | 55 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | 155,000ドル[1] |
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese.[2] Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in Taxi Driver . Prince is a raconteur who tells stories about various events in his life.[3]
The Neil Young song "Time Fades Away" is featured in the film.[4]
A sequel, American Prince, was released in 2009 and was directed by Tommy Pallotta.
Synopsis
[edit ]Martin Scorsese and a small group of friends gather in a living room in Los Angeles with the charismatic Steven Prince. Over the course of the evening, Scorsese films Prince talking about various events in his life with a mixture of humor and gravitas. Prince recalls stories such as being a former drug addict, a road manager for Neil Diamond, and a traumatic event in which he witnessed a boy die by accidental electrocution. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family.
When talking of his years as a heroin addict, he recalls Neil Diamond offering to help Prince get clean, but he refused. Later, however, Prince goes through recovery and remembers being shocked to learn he had a green ceiling in his home. He never noticed before because his eyelids had always been half-closed as an effect of the heroin.
Prince recalls injecting adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, with the help of a medical dictionary and a Magic Marker, years later this story was re-enacted by Quentin Tarantino in his screenplay for Pulp Fiction .[5] [6]
Prince also tells a story about his days working at a gas station, and having to shoot a man he caught stealing tires, after the man pulled out a knife and tried to attack him. This story was retold in the Richard Linklater film Waking Life .
Cast
[edit ]- Steven Prince as Self
- Julia Cameron as Self (uncredited)
- Mardik Martin as Self (uncredited)
- Kathi McGinnis as Self (uncredited)
- George Memmoli as Self (uncredited)
- Martin Scorsese as Self (uncredited)
Production
[edit ]The film was shot over the course of two weekends.[7]
References
[edit ]- ^ "American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978)". imdb.com. Retrieved 2006年12月03日.
- ^ Meneghetti, Mike (2021年03月25日). Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-5013-3689-8.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (January 12, 1990). "Review/Film; Two Early Scorsese Profiles, of His Parents and of an Actor". The New York Times .
- ^ Pappademas, Alex (2020年07月07日). "Steven Prince, an Early Scorsese Star, "Was the Guy with the Gun"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2024年04月26日.
- ^ Dry, Jude (January 26, 2017). "How the 'Pulp Fiction' Adrenaline Shot Scene Was Inspired by Scorsese's 'Lost Film' — Watch". IndieWire .
- ^ Beyl, Cameron (January 6, 2023). "Ultimate Guide To Martin Scorsese And His Directing Techniques". Indie Film Hustle.
- ^ Wilson 2011, p. 90.
Works cited
[edit ]- Wilson, Michael (2011). Scorsese On Scorsese. Cahiers du Cinéma. ISBN 9782866427023.
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