Martin Scorsese, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Discuss Perils of Modern Tech and AI at WSJ Innovator Awards: ‘It’s the Humans Who Do the Innovating and Entertaining’

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Anna Tingley Martin Scorsese and Julia Louis-Dreyfus touched on the profound possibilities and perils of modern technology in their speeches at the 2023 WSJ Innovator Awards on Wednesday night.

During his acceptance speech for the Film Innovator Award, Scorsese recounted the first time he used a Steadicam while shooting his 1980 sports drama “Raging Bull.” “At this point it’s brand new,” he says about the camera stabilizer mount which was first introduced in 1975. “I got in the ring and De Niro’s in there and I looked at the rushes and I realized I actually foolishly expected the tools to do the work,” he said. “It meant nothing.

I had to redirect the scene, the tool itself was not gonna give me something new.” That initial failure led Scorsese to arguably one of the most memorable scenes in his directing career: The long take in “Goodfellas,” in which the camera goes from the street into the Copocabana. “That’s where I learned how to use the tool.” “So for me,” Scorsese continued, “the technology of today is as profound a change as the Industrial Revolution.

We have no idea how it’s going to effect all of us, but with these tools, it creates possibilities we’d never dream of. These tools create a whole new form of moviemaking, of cinema.