>>641
I don't bash the movie so much because so far it seems it was Scorcese's Kagemusha, a very old pet project nobody wanted to produce or promote it and the guy wanted those specific actors for a long time (Michael Mann got there first with Heat but he still insisted).
One of the producers, Pavlovic, decided to force some money to Scorcese via economic packages from Netflix and academies but the little guy didn't want to use digital, he wanted something akin to Jurassic Park's film-to-CGI-to-film process, which looks decent enough but costs much more than before. Somehow the producer convinced Martin and got around to also convince Pesci and Dunk to do it and half of Hollywood jumped the bandwagon to give some money. The final result is more of an executive tribute to the director than a personal project financed by a maverick, it seems there was a lot of meddling too so i personally think Scorcese made his peace after this one, and all the main actors should also do it.
The lack of young actors is more of an artistic decision i believe, because Martin has used them, for example in Silence he (or someone else) very controversially casts 2 jewish actors to portray jesuit missionaries in Japan, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield, both marketing products but at the least the former does know how to act a little.
>>642
I believe it was for purity reasons, even as a rulebreaker the director seems reserved about doing rampant post-processing, i don't blame him as i would feel uncomfortable seeing or directing a mocap man for a good 7 or 8 scenes, might as well give him top billings. I agree playing with angles and cuts could've made it more bearable but guess nobody told him, if anything someone made it worse because those windows and stands broke faster than in a Norris Bros. film.
>Yeah that's what it looks like from the clip.
And it's one of the most risky scenes with the use of a short focal length fixed in a position tracking the character who is somewhat far away. The rest are very short dolly movements at close-ups and behind-the-shoulder exchanges, very decent lightning all around but it just doesn't work in a long movie, it was like seeing a television production or watching 6 episodes of a series straight. Casino on the other hand was much more interesting and with the same script format.
>Someone said Jack Nicholson was better as Hoffa
Very ironically DeNiro fits the Hoffa role much better, the guy had a belligerent and strongman character with a confidence air but not clownish, not to mention his physique is more similar. Dunk's characterization was more about a cocky and decisive leader with a penchant to banter his rivals or downright insult them, and his appearance is somewhat different, i don't know who was in charge of attires but his bright suits don't fit the sober image of the historical guy. Nicholson would've been worse unless he downright re-enacted the same role from decades ago but sadly he's suffering from a degenerative sickness that makes him forget almost everything short-termed so he retired some years ago... good thing about that is that you can watch great movies over and over again.