Big Picture: Mean Streets (1973)

Movies don’t need to be musicals to take music seriously. Music has been a vital component of the movie-going experience since before the films themselves had sound. For this month, Big Picture is going to celebrate a different way of using music in movies. We’re happy to present three titles that incorporate popular music, either the actual music being listened to by the characters in the film or music representative of the time and situation, in a particularly memorable way. FILM SYNOPSIS: 1h 52m / R / Drama Mean Streets wasn’t director Martin Scorsese’s first feature. That was the independent Who’s That Knocking at My Door, an expanded student film with one-tenth of the budget of Mean Streets. It wasn’t his second, either; that was a work-for-hire exploitation picture he made for human conveyor belt Roger Corman. But Mean Streets was the first feature where Scorsese could be himself. So what else could it be? It’s the story of a broke, ambitious guy in Little Italy (Harvey Keitel as Charlie) making his own meager way in the world, balancing the magnetic pull of small-time crime with the guilt and responsibility of Catholicism, all while trying to keep his jackass friend (Robert DeNiro as Johnny) from ruining everything.

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