American Boy - Martin Scorsese 5/6

"American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince" is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, best known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in Taxi Driver. Prince is a raconteur telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family. When talking of his years as a heroin addict, Prince tells a story about injecting adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, with the help of a medical dictionary and a Magic Marker. This story was re-enacted by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction.

The Neil Young song "Time Fades Away" is featured during the film's opening credits.

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Entertainment

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• Martin
• Scorsese
• Steven
• Prince
• Taxi
• Driver
• Pulp
• Fiction

[activedentalfloss]

yeah, thats what I thought. You reckon QT plagiarized it from this?

[cchandle]

I wish this guy was my dad

[mussman717word]

@activedentalfloss

I wouldn't call it plagiarism. I mean, surely many people have given adrenaline shots to overdosers before. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this is where QT got the main idea from, though. I'd call it influence, not lifting.

[magsli26]

"...he was a 4ft negro...his name was Big..."

[dashrirprock]

@stopthehatechild

You dumb dildo, you have no idea what you're blathering about. First off, the "theme" for the Great Supper -- and anything else in Christian mythology -- predates the Bible. These "themes" are cultural universals. Da Vinci was depicting one of the most popular scenes from the most well-known book ever published.

Tarantino parachuted a shot-by-shot story into his movie, which is fine. Except he took it from someone else's obscure publication. What he did was dirty.

[HamGreenandEggs]

Excerpting a speech from a documentary as a subtle reference is not plagiarism.

[stopthehatechild]

All the people insulting Tarantino can go fuck themselves. You probably wouldn't be on this page if it weren't for him. It's not as if he claimed he wrote it, and he has repeatedly said Scorsese was his main influence.

Besides Scorsese didn't write it either. Nor did he recreate it with actors and fit it perfectly into a plot.

People who accuse him of plagiarism are fools They might as well say that about da Vinci for "plagarizing" the theme for the Last Supper from the bible.

[NeverMind9132]

So fuck Tarantino.

[MagnumReisenfeld786]

Dowwnload the audio from this track at tubepull doht cohm.

[sleestack808]

sounds like they overdub, "the guy's dead" on the joey story

[sleestack808]

@USTUBE4000 people are assholes

[PLOttawa]

@dickiediamond Thank you.