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Marty gets his close-up

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Dec 18, 2013

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For the opening scene (inset), Scorcese called upon his memory of a misty lake vista in 1954 Japanese film “Sansho the Bailiff.”

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In a dream sequence, he crafted an image of Michelle Williams disintegrating into ashes.

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A flurry of documents rain down on the corpse of a German officer, echoing the confetti-like effect of a boys’ pillow fight in French film “Zero de Conduite” (inset), a Scorsese favorite.

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Matches lit in darkness are a frequent motif, inspired by films such as “I Walked With a Zombie” (inset) and “Cat People,” noir classics in which horrors lurk in obscure places.

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A twofer scene with Elias Koteas as a scar-faced man: He’s got a match (!) and Scorsese had him channel the menace of 1947 thriller “Crossfire.”

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