Martin Scorsese now knows what a “sneaky link” is
Scorsese may be one of the greatest directors of all time, but he did just ok at his daughter's TikTok slang quiz
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Say what you want about nepo babies (as many already have), but their TikTok content is hard to beat. This year has already given us easily one of the greatest 49-second clips of all time in Sofia Coppola’s daughter’s vodka sauce video, which she made while grounded for trying to charter a helicopter on her dad Thomas Mars from Phoenix’s credit card… naturally.
Not to be outdone, Martin Scorsese’s 23-year-old daughter Francesca has also entered the race for Best Short Video By Someone With A Famous Director Relative (perhaps mirroring a face-off we’ll see between the Priscilla and Killers Of The Flower Moon helmers when award season rolls around?). And we can all rest assured that Martin Scorsese does in fact know what “ick” and “throwing shade” mean.
@francescascorsese He lowkey slayed. #fyp #martinscorsese #dadsoftiktok #dadguesses
In the video, Francesca quizzes her 80-year-old father on some highlights from Gen Z slang, a test the nine-time Academy Award winner earned about a B- on.
He did know some words right off the bat. “Tea,” for example, means that “you’re gonna tell all you know” and if you get the ick from something it means “you were thoroughly repulsed by it.”
Others, he did not. In the director’s words, a “ship” is a “boat” (hard to fault him for that one), a “simp” is “a person who’s whining all the time,” and “sneaky links” are “personal peccadillos.” (Don’t worry, Francesca explained what the term actually means, so now we can all watch Killers Of The Flower Moon infused with the knowledge that its director knows about Zoomer hookup culture. Her description also gave us a bonus bit of saucy Scorsese lore: “We never saw specific people in my day,” he revealed. Okay, Martin!)
It wouldn’t be a Scorsese interview without the movie fan finding a way to talk about his one true love, an opportunity which Francesca delightfully provided through some of her “use it in a sentence” choices. After offering “Lily Gladstone ‘ate’ in Killers Of The Flower Moon” as an example, the director went on to define the term as when one “consumes the screen” (not wrong). “Slept on” apparently means a movie people “hated when it came out” and if a movie “hits different,” “you perceive it in a totally different way. It’s another perspective on the image and the effect the film had on the audience.”
What a slay from Martin and Francesca. (“That means it’s really good!”)
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But………WHY DOES IT SOUND LIKE THAT?????
No matter how much or little you care about nepo babies and that whole “discourse”…Can we at least agree the worst kind of nepo baby is the “influencer” who relies on occasionally posting content of their much more famous parent?
Well, there are two types of “nepo baby” that are annoying, 1) the influencer type as you mention and 2) the type that thinks they succeeded because of their innate skill and not because of their parents’ influence.I really kind of respect the type of person from a famous family who either doesn’t really capitalize on their relationship or even goes to the trouble of adopting a stage/pen name to distance themselves from them in the public eye (Nicolas Cage from uncle Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Hill from father Stephen King, etc.).
Mama, mia!
I thought “sneaky links” was eating sausages on the sly.
I thought it was sidling onto a private golf course at 5 in the morning for a couple of holes.
I thought it was that fucking forced stealth section in Ocarina Of Time.
I still have no idea , and to be honest your version sounds more plausible than whatever the fuck it will actually turn out to be I reckon.
It’s nice that he’s spending time with his granddaughter.(At least 57 is younger than 70-something. Tony Randall had his two children in his late 70s and died before either turned 10.)
Didn’t his pals DeNiro and Pacino both just have kids in their 80s? 57 is at least a fairly reasonable age to become an old dad.
I suspect most of the people here are so young that they can’t imagine people in their 50s having sex, let alone having children.
Did they? Holy fuck, that’s irresponsible.
Yup – Al Pacino at 83, De Niro at 79 (he just turned 80, but the kid was born in April). And I dunno about irresponsible – the kids aren’t likely to have their dads see them off to college – but they’ll never want for anything else the rest of their lives.
I guess that’s fine if money is more important than having your father in your life.
Money isn’t a substitute for parenting so yeah it’s irresponsible.
What’s crazy is how much his daughter looks like Thelma Schoonmaker.