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Martin Scorsese was born in Flushing NY on November 17, 1942. At age 8 he moved to Little Italy with his parents and brother. As a boy Scorsese suffered from pleurisy, a condition that forced him to be bedridden for most of his childhood. When he did get outside, it was the world of Little Italy that he immersed himself into. This world had several distinct contradictions, the Italian-American culture that ruled the streets and the Religious influence that St. Patrick parish brought to the neighborhood. Scorsese credits the St. Patrick school for bring any type of order into his life. It is these thymes of religion and Italian-American cultche that have had a profound influence on Scorsese’s films. Thoughout his career he would draw on these experiences to help inject his films with gritty realism and street-smart savvy.
After tenure of teaching at N.Y.U, Scorsese embarked on his movies carrier. He broke from mainstream film making with his use of outsider antiheros, unusual c...