He goes on to say:
“[But] this is a film that I love. Every aspect of it [the design, the color],
the way the film’s edited, the movement within the frame and the movement of the
frame, the dialogue, the milieu. "It isn’t as simple as music intercut with
images,” he gushed, excitedly, in that fast-paced way that he speaks, “It has
something else that makes it a piece of music, in a way. That you can run the
film through your head and through your mind and your soul like music—images
come to mind and perceptions of dialogue.” Scorsese further remarks how the film explains creative obsession:
“This is the one that seems to cast a spell on many people, because it weaves a mystery of creativity and obsession—it becomes a film about the creative drive.”
“The Red Shoes” is crucial because it’s a movie that tapped Scorsese’s creative spirit at a young age and over the years he’s talked a lot about the importance of the film. But, so many people have never seen it...He recalled a single scene that he feels embodies “The Red Shoes.”
Early on in the film, ballet company impresario Boris Lermontov (played by Anton Walbrook) is at a cocktail party where he reluctantly meets a young ballet dancer (Moira Shearer) who he is immediately taken with. He asks her, “Why do you want to dance?” She quickly responds, “Why do you want to live?”Ah...love it!
