Hollywood continues to mourn the passing of filmmaker Rob Reiner. The latest to pay his tributes to the late filmmaker is Martin Scorsese. In his recent essay for The New York Times, Scorsese reminisced about Reiner the personality and talked about his favourite films by the late director. "Right away, I loved hanging out with Rob. We had a natural affinity for each other. He was hilarious and sometimes bitingly funny, but he was never the kind of guy who would take over the room," the Raging Bull and Taxi Driver filmmaker wrote. "He had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom, fully enjoying the life of the moment, and he had a great barreling laugh," the filmmaker added about Reiner. Scorsese also recollected an incident where Reiner's laughter to a Michael McKean parody of tribute speeches echoed throughout Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. "Before he got to the punchline, Rob laughed so hard you could hear it throughout the auditorium," Scorsese said.
The filmmaker picked Misery as his favourite Rob Reiner directorial, calling it "a very special film, beautifully acted by Kathy Bates and James Caan." He also mentioned Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap, a mockumentary that serves as a spoof of rock bands, calling it "a class of its own … an immaculate creation."
Scorsese talked about how it was his first thought to cast Reiner in the role of the Leonardo DiCaprio character's father in 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street. "He could improvise with the best, he was a master at comedy, he worked beautifully with Leo and the rest of the guys, and he understood the human predicament of his character: The man loved his son, he was happy with his success, but he knew that he was destined for a fall," the filmmaker wrote in his tribute.
