Heads up now: Scorsese's getting political!

Martin Scorsese, the Oscar-winning director who brought you a diverse and versatile array of masterpieces such as, "New York Mobsters Kill Each Other," "Good Guys vs Bad Guys with Guns in New York," "Violence in New York of About a Century Ago," and his latest film, for which he won an Oscar, "Shooting and Killing... in Boston, This Time," has got a thing or two to teach you about the Iraq War, you fucking ethnocentric American, you!:mad:

From imdb.com news:
"Scorsese Reveals Controversial Film Set in Japan"
"Martin Scorsese has disclosed that he is planning to direct a movie, set in 17th-century Japan, that may have implications related to the war in Iraq. In an interview with the Associated Press at the Cannes film festival, Scorsese said that his film, Silence, presumably based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo and William Johnston about Portuguese Christian missionaries who arrived in Japan in feudal times, has parallels to America's role in Iraq. The Oscar-winning director (The Departed) said that he hopes to shoot the film in Japan, at least partially, beginning next summer. "It raises a lot of questions about foreign cultures coming in and imposing their way of thinking on another culture they know nothing about," Scorsese told the A.P."

"...another culture they know nothing about..." This is coming from a Queens-born Limousine Liberal who wants to make a movie about SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN.:thumbsup:

Maybe he'll use Joe Pesci as an enforcer against the Japanese. Pesci is 5'4" tall so at least, height-wise, it'll be fair. If Pesci isn't available, he can use Martin Sheen, who is 5'6" - or better yet, instead of having Sheen thrown off a roof, like he was in Scorsese's The Departed, they can chop his head off with Samurai swords.

No spoilers now!