Martin And Francesca Scorsese Make A Website In Squarespace’s Super Bowl Commercial [Video]

The commercial opens with Scorsese telling his daughter he’s working on making a “short film” — about 30 seconds long. The main character of Scorsese’s latest picture happens to be a website (somehow), causing Marty to admit he doesn’t really know what a website is. This sets the stage for Francesca to use Squarespace to show her father how to build a site, all while Scorsese talks about extraterrestrials. Sure, it’s all an exercise in consumerism, but admit it: it’s fun to watch Martin Scorsese do this sort of thing, and he and his daughter work together well. It’s an amusing ad, and it will no doubt be cut down into smaller chunks beyond its initial nearly 4-minute runtime.

Martin Scorsese is no stranger to commercials — he’s done a few over the years. Click here to see one of my favorites, in which he criticizes his own photography skills while shilling for …