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BY BRICE SANDER

Could the king of mean movies be going soft?

After filming the family-friendly adventure ‘Hugo,’ director Martin Scorsese says he wants to film exclusively in 3D- and would even revisit some past films, telling Deadline... 

...he’d want to see the Howard Hughes biopic ‘Aviator’ in 3D alongside...

…one of his darker works, ‘Taxi Driver,’ because of Robert DeNiro’s “frightening presence” on screen.

Here’s Scorsese on The Insider.

MARTIN SCORSESE: “As soon as you put that, the 3D element, in there, you have to rethink everything, every shot. Things come up that you never expected.”
BROOKE ANDERSON: “But his efforts for perfection didn’t go unnoticed.”
BEN KINGSLEY: “He sleeps, comes back, does the same thing the next day. He gives everything to the film set.”

A Gizmodo blogger likes the idea, but cautions Scorsese from going overboard.

“…certain subject matters aren’t meant for 3D,’ so fingers crossed he won’t ‘do a Cameron’ and re-release all his old classics with those god-awful slicked-over 3D effects.”

And The Daily Californian argues Scorsese could help rid the technology of its gimmicky reputation.

“Like Shakespeare … Scorsese reinvents himself, earning the title of virtuoso filmmaker, while somehow utilizing the genre of family adventure films as the means to show off his distinctive vision of elaborate movements and high-energy pacing.”

Cinema Blend agrees, suggesting the world of 3D is not what it used to be.

“This category is becoming tougher and tougher to quantify as 3D movies change, most of the moving away from the gimmicky method of tossing everything at the screen to pop out at you-- you know, ‘before’ the window of the movie screen.”