Martin Scorsese defining ‘simp,’ ‘sneaky link’ and ‘ick’ on TikTok? Now that’s cinema

Martin Scorsese, acclaimed filmmaker and unexpected TikTok darling, has gone viral once again. In a TikTok video, Scorsese’s daughter Francesca had her father define popular “slag” words like “tea,” “ick” and “simp.” According to 23-year-old Francesca, her filmmaker father, 80, “lowkey slayed” his internet vocabulary test. After Francesca says a “sneaky link” is similar to a “booty call,” the “Killers of the Flower Moon” director says, “We never saw specific people in my day.” As the video continues, Scorsese taps into his filmmaking career to define phrases “hits different” and “slept on.” He agrees with Francesca that movies shown on 70mm film “hits different” and revisits a negative review when Francesca says his 1983 film “‘The King of Comedy’ was slept on,” or underrated. I made that film years ago.” While no “Goncharov,” Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a real movie that’s set to hit theaters on Oct. 20. Times critic Justin Chang wrote in his review that Scorsese’s latest film “is both like and unlike anything its director has ever done.”