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Wikipedia article




'The Big Shave' is a 1967 six-minute horror short film directed by Martin Scorsese.[https://mubi.com/films/the-big-shave MUBI] It is also known as 'Viet '67'.[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/648886/the-big-shave Turner Classic Movies][https://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-the-big-shave-from-scorsese-shorts/ 366 Weird Movies]

Home media



In May 2020, it was made available on DVD/Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection as part of a collection of his short films from the 60s and 70s.[https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=26411 Criterion Announces May Titles - Blu-Ray.com]

Synopsis



Peter Bernuth[https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-big-shave The Criterion Channel] stars as the recipient of the title shave, repeatedly shaving away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. Many film critics have interpreted the young man's process of self-mutilation as a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War,[https://www.criterion.com/films/30616-scorsese-shorts Scorsese Shorts (0)|The Criterion Collection] prompted by the film's alternative title.

Production



The music accompanying the film is Bunny Berigan's "I Can't Get Started".[https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f4e99ab BFI] The film was produced at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, shot on Afga color film donated by Palais des Beaux Arts.[https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-big-shave-v139400 AllMovie]

The short's use of violence, music and montage would become trademarks of Scorsese's future work.[https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/martin-scorsese-short-film-the-big-shave/ Watch Martin Scorsese's early and bloodiest short film 'The Big Shave' - Far Out Magazine]

Cultural references



*'Cutting Moments' (1997) has a scene which greatly resembles "The Big Shave".

*'American Dad!': In "The Best Christmas Story Never", Stan travels back in time to 1970 and meets a young Martin Scorsese. When Stan tells the director that he's a big fan, Scorsese says, incredulously, "You saw my six minute film about a guy shaving?!"

*Dave Hause, singer of The Loved Ones, released a video for the song "Time Will Tell" from his debut solo album 'Resolutions' that pays homage to "The Big Shave".

*'PEARLIES' A two-minute short horror film directed by Jonathan Gularte Ramirez starring as himself as he brushes his teeth in an increasingly bloody and graphic fashion. The short is directly inspired from "The Big Shave".

See also



*List of American films of 1967

*Counterculture of the 1960s

*Experimental film

References




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