Settings & Locations
18 entries in the Martin Scorsese compendium.
Settings & Locations — Era Chart
Las Vegas StripA neon-soaked stage where the house always wins, but the soul often loses.Little Italy, ManhattanFrom Mulberry Bend's foul core to a five-block tourist veneer.1970s New York CityA decaying metropolis where ambition rots and redemption is a fleeting shadow.Shutter IslandA psychological thriller set on a fictional island where reality bends under the weight ofUpper East SideA Manhattan enclave defined by its long tradition of housing the world's most wealthy, powJFK AirportThe site where cargo trucks vanish and the greatest heist in mob history unfolds.Newark, New JerseyThe birthplace of an actor who defined the volatile spirit of Scorsese's mob epics.Madison Square GardenA concrete colossus where Scorsese stages the final reckoning of flesh, sound, and silenceLittle Italy, Lower East SideThe neighborhood that raised a generation of Scorsese's most unforgettable, most doomed chThe CopacabanaWhere the band played, the dream lived, and the smoke never quite cleared.Times SquareA thousand neon faces screaming at once, and no one is looking at you.Five PointsWhere five streets meet, five hundred lives collide in blood and fog.South BostonThe neighborhood that raised a killer and never let him forget where he came from.Union City, New JerseyAcross the river, the city keeps its secrets in Spanish and in silence.North Bergen, New JerseyThe Palisades stoop where the mob's home turf meets the working class.Mulberry StreetA narrow artery of Little Italy where boys become men, saints, and sinners in the same nigThe Irish-American community of the Lower East SideA neighborhood that judges you before you even knock on the door.The Italian-American neighborhoods of New JerseySuburbia with a .38 under the armrest: the quiet violence of the New Jersey American Dream
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