Thesis

Speaking of 1963, this clip was produced by filmmaker Martin Scorsese as a course requirement for his master's degree at New York University's School of Film. What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This is a short that depicts a writer's uneasy formality with life that teeters on an incredulous departure from reality at the film's end. Having only mulled on Scorsese's The Aviator, a biopic film that begins at Howard Hughes's childhood, I admired how he encapsulated, against a sixties backdrop, a man's eventual disassociation from the here and now in the film's ten minutes. Airline mogul and Hollywood socialite Hughes, played by Leonardo Di Caprio, grappled with an obsessive compulsive disorder that travelled with him from childhood, in his business ventures and with each of trysts with screen actresses. What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This shows the opposite. What does a man do when the cookie-cutter story book life gets the better of him?