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- Nome alla nascitaMardik Vartan Martin
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- Mardik Martin è nato il 16 settembre 1934. Luogo di nascita: Iran. È conosciuto come sceneggiatore e attore. È celebre per aver partecipato a Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all'inferno (1973), Toro scatenato (1980) e New York, New York (1977). Morì l'11 settembre 2019. Luogo di morte: Usa.
- Screenwriter of many early films directed by Martin Scorsese.
- Mardik Martin graduated with a Master's degree in Screenwriting from New York University (NYU) in 1968.
- Screenwriter Mardik Martin co-wrote Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all'inferno (1973), New York, New York (1977) and Toro scatenato (1980) for director Martin Scorsese. In addition Martin wrote or co-wrote the treatments for three of Scorsese's early documentary projects: Italoamericani (1974) , L'ultimo valzer (1978) and Ragazzo americano (1978). Scorsese and Martin were both film students at NYU and started their long-lasting collaboration in 1964 with the student short film It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). In 2014 Scorsese met again with Martin and director Fatih Akin to see a version of Il padre (2014), their first meeting in over a decade. Scorsese is quoted as saying: "Fatih Akin's Il padre (2014) is a genuine, hand-made epic, of the type that people just don't make anymore. In other words, a deeply personal response to a tragic historical episode, that has great intensity, beauty and sweeping grandeur. This picture is very precious to me, on many levels.".
- He is a US citizen of Armenian descent.
- Screenwriter Mardik Martin is a US citizen of Armenian descent. Director and screenwriter Fatih Akin is a German citizen of Turkish descent. Il padre (2014) represents the first collaboration between an Armenian and a Turkish screenwriter on a feature film about the Armenian Genocide in film history.
- Mardik Martin served as a script doctor for numerous Hollywood screenplays and film productions.
- You shouldn't be thinking when you're watching a movie, you should be feeling. "Oh, that's a lovely shot, blue horizon..." That means the movie sucks.
- If you're a shrinking violet who sits in the corner, no one's going to give a shit about you. You've got to present yourself.
- I never had to cry over spilled milk. I spilled milk, but I didn't cry over it. That's part of life.
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