The King of Comedy1982

No doubt one of Scorsese’s best. De Niro plays completely out of “Italian mob boss” character. That, mixed with the dialogue and subject matter make this entrancing and entrapping at the same time. You almost feel like Jerry himself. Such a good opening title sequence, too. Not only predicts our celebrity obsessed culture of today, but funny enough also seems to have predicted our self-made YouTube creator world: the hijacking of eyes and ears, replacing quality, sifted programming with amateur, unscripted slop. In fact, Rupert Pupkin reminded me so much of the infamous ‘waste of airtime’ Jake Paul—someone who never stops talking, or doing what they feel it takes to get to the top, to be “the king.” Nowadays the web is full of Pupkins choking the collective psyche and reducing our world to an oligarchy of mediocrity and madness.