MARTIN Scorsese is nothing if not loyal to the handful of stars he allows into his closest circle.
It's a practice that leads actors to grab on to him as if he were the last life preserver on the Titanic ... which, for Leonardo DiCaprio, he was.
"I was headed down a path of being one kind of actor, and he helped me become another one: the one I wanted to be," DiCaprio said.
The pairing has become one of the most productive in Hollywood, and it has been career-altering for both men.
links of london charmsFor Scorsese, mentoring the 35-year-old actor is a return to the kind of relationships he forged in the 1970s, when he was writing bitter serenades to New York with movies such as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver.
As he did with Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, Scorsese, 67, takes a paternal interest in DiCaprio, suggesting roles, demanding dozens of takes and watching the actor mature.
It's new ground for DiCaprio. NOT Scorsese.
"Sometimes, you relate to an actor in ways you can't explain," Scorsese said.
"I felt it with Harvey, I felt it with Robert, I feel it now.
replica hublot watches"Over the course of years, you develop a rhythm that's hard to find in this business.
"But if you do find it, you don't let it go."
Since Scorsese got to know DiCaprio (at the urging of De Niro), the director has cast him in every feature film he has done since: Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006).
Together, the movies have taken in more than $A346.9 million domestically (a fortune for R-rated Scorsese films) and tallied 26 Oscar nominations and wins.
They pair again for Shutter Island - a mystery thriller that marks replica breitling watches new territory for both men.
The film, which opens in Australia next Thursday, is as close as Scorsese has come to a horror film since Cape Fear - his 1991 remake with De Niro.
In Shutter Island, DiCaprio plays Teddy Daniels: a US marshal in 1954, who investigates the disappearance of a murderer from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Ask Scorsese why he's teaming for the fourth time in eight years with DiCaprio, and his answer is straightforward: "I love seeing an actor at this stage in his life, when he can try new, braver things.
"I thought this was something new and brave for him."
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