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Originally Posted by timun

I'm not a huge Scorsese fan, but this I disagree with vehemently. I haven't seen all of his films, but of the ones I have, the only two I consider pretty much inseparably attached in content and style (and cast...) are Goodfellas and Casino. (I happen to love Goodfellas, I think it's easily his finest work. And Casino is great too, just not my fave.) To me it's misleading to say his movies are otherwise "one-trick ponies" being re-hashed over again.

The only thing that many of his movies share in common is crime. That much is true, and in this roundabout way you can say The Departed and Gangs of New York can be lumped in as "gang movies" that he's famous for, but the tone, plot, art direction and everything else about these movies are vastly different in my opinion. For instance as much as I love Goodfellas I loathe Gangs of New York; they're both "gang movies", but they otherwise have nothing in common.

Other stuff like The Aviator and Hugo I struggle to think how you'd link to his other work, other than some of the cast playing in other movies of his.

Hell, while Shutter Island isn't my favorite... if the opening credits didn't tell me I wouldn't have guessed that it's a Scorsese movie. Or Hugo.