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'The Big Shave': Scorsese's Vision of Death and American Politics Set in a Bathroom
Don't mind the terrible blood and location.

The short film featured a young man shaving in the bathroom, applying shaving cream, and then brutalizing his face with a razor. It is to Reddit and its user Brecht Debackere, a Belgian filmmaker, that we have to thank for supplying the world with Scorsese's script for The Big Shave, the one that won the jury over and started opening doors for the talented Queens-born filmmaking student. filmed on 16mm reversal color, making the most out of a stark contrast between the pearl white bathroom and dark red of the blood, with American jazz trumpeter Bunny Berigan's I Can't Get Started from 1937 and shaped as what was deemed to be a highly effective criticism of the American involvement in the Vietnam war and self-mutilation of the nation is presented, The Big Shave is not only a heck of a short film but from today's perspective, it's a film of historical value, it enables us to catch a glimpse of the filmmaking beginnings of a universally recognized and one of the leading men of American cinema. Even though the alternate title of the film was Viet '67 and Scorsese seriously considered ending it with archival images of the East Asian bloodbath, the author later stated that the film was, first and foremost, a strictly personal vision of death. Read the precious script and enjoy the film.

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