Martin Scorsese’s Epic Funeral for the Gangster Genre
<em>The Irishman</em> ruminates on the stories and characters that have helped define the director’s career.
by David Sims
Nov 01, 2019
3 minutes
If Frank Sheeran (played by Robert De Niro), the central figure in Martin Scorsese’s , has a theme song, it’s “,” a mid-’50s doo-wop hit from the Five Satins. A romantic ballad that evokes images of soda fountains and high-school dances, it nevertheless has a mournful quality, with a haunting, repetitive backing track beneath the sappy lyrics. Besides the sorrowful tone, though, Scorsese undoubtedly picked “In the Still of the Night” as a leitmotif for his new film because its title describes exactly how Sheeran operates. He arrives unseen in the night with hardly
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