Marty Does Auschwitz! Scorsese begins filming Holocaust flashbacks for ASHECLIFFE
March 8th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Throughout his career, Martin Scorsese has granted mere mortals an audience with just about every shade of fazed degenerate known to man. We’ve seen dopers, buggerers, pool hall junkies, psychopaths, sociopaths, Christ-killers, mugs, thugs, pugs, Johnny Roast Beef, ear collectors, bad men hassling Michael Jackson on a train, and even an occasional swastika (most notably Charlie’s table-etching in Mean Streets). He is finally ready to make plain the cinema’s ultimate villain: Here is…the Nazi.
How felicitous of Marty to follow his long-delayed Oscar booby prize with a stopover at the Holocaust, one of the Academy’s favorite subjects. There had better be a lot of Max Cady in those goose-stepping goons! Based on Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island, Ashecliffe takes place in a 1950s mental institution and contains flashbacks to a World War II death camp.
Massachusetts’ antiquated Whittenton Mills, the 175-year-old, 42-acre industrial complex that runs along Taunton’s Mill River, was transformed into a concentration camp on Friday as shooting began on the flashbacks. The filming will last through Tuesday.
According to Enterprise News, “There were Nazi soldiers sauntering around in full military attire. There were bald and bloodied concentration camp prisoners covering their tattered clothing with blankets to keep warm as they walked on and off the set.”
The Taunton Daily Gazette (I subscribe) gaged the delighted reactions of several Tauntonians. “I want to pull out the red carpet for them,” said Mayor Charles Crowley who met with Scorsese’s advanced team (Marty is too busy to personally attend to this nonsense) this past month to discuss the possibility of a Taunton shoot.
The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley and Max Von Sydow. “These actors are at the top of their field,” Crowley said. “To have them in our midst, is something we can all admire.” The Mayor crowed over how the Scorsese valediction “will put the area on the map.”
David Murphy, managing partner of Hamilton Development Partners, LLC, the company who bought the mills property for $1.7 million in 2004, was pleased that most of the scenes at Whittenton Mills will be exterior shots, thus showing off his property’s appeal to tourists who bought the map that Mayor Crowley sold them.
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