As Killers of the Flower Moon sets to debut, a treasure of cinema and one of America’s greatest living directors, Martin Scorsese, is again doing rounds of press to promote the film. Of course, this means that people will inevitably ask him to again speak out against “comic book” movies. After famously suggesting comic book films, specifically those in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, aren’t cinema, audiences who love these movies take exception. What critics of modern superhero movies often don’t understand is what this kind of cinema gives to audiences that other films may not.The summer of 2023 was not a great one for comic book movies. While movies like Across the Spider-Verse and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 performed well at the box office, others like Shazam!: Fury of the Gods, Blue Beetle and The Flash movie did not. Instead, this was the summer of “Barbenheimer,” with Barbie breaking the $1 billion box office milestone and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer closing in on that milestone. This is “not bad” for a three-hour movie about particle physics and the deadly hubris that led to the nuclear age. In fact, despite needing to promote his own film, Martin Scorsese said Nolan could “save cinema.” The 80-year-old Scorsese, of course, has earned the right to hold any opinion he wants about movies, even if he disparages the artful value of MCU or other superhero movies. However, he asks a question in the interview that has a very clear, important answer. Diversity in cinema is important, both in who makes the movies and what sort of movies get made. Yet, superhero films tie into a storytelling tradition as old as the human race.Scorsese’s comments came from a long-form profile in which the legendary director reflects on many aspects of his work, life and his impending mortality. Yet, the issue of Marvel and other franchise content came up. Scorsese started by saying he just wants younger generations to understand the MCU isn’t the only source of entertainment. When the interviewer said that he believed they “already think that” (a reductive and silly claim), Scorsese said auteur directors with voice and vision had to fight back against that by continually reinventing themselves and finding a way to make movies. The venerated director himself has turned to streaming powerhouses Netflix and AppleTV+ for his two most recent movies.RELATED: Killers of the Flower Moon Star Broke Martin Scorsese’s Casting Habits
As Killers of the Flower Moon sets to debut, a treasure of cinema and one of America’s greatest living directors, Martin Scorsese, is again doing rounds of press to promote the film. Of course, this means that people will inevitably ask him to again speak out against “comic book” movies. After famously suggesting comic book films, specifically those in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, aren’t cinema, audiences who love these movies take exception. What critics of modern superhero movies often don’t understand is what this kind of cinema gives to audiences that other films may not.
The summer of 2023 was not a great one for comic book movies. While movies like Across the Spider-Verse and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 performed well at the box office, others like Shazam!: Fury of the Gods, Blue Beetle and The Flash movie did not. Instead, this was the summer of “Barbenheimer,” with Barbie breaking the $1 billion box office milestone and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer closing in on that milestone. This is “not bad” for a three-hour movie about particle physics and the deadly hubris that led to the nuclear age. In fact, despite needing to promote his own film, Martin Scorsese said Nolan could “save cinema.” The 80-year-old Scorsese, of course, has earned the right to hold any opinion he wants about movies, even if he disparages the artful value of MCU or other superhero movies. However, he asks a question in the interview that has a very clear, important answer. Diversity in cinema is important, both in who makes the movies and what sort of movies get made. Yet, superhero films tie into a storytelling tradition as old as the human race.
Scorsese’s comments came from a long-form profile in which the legendary director reflects on many aspects of his work, life and his impending mortality. Yet, the issue of Marvel and other franchise content came up. Scorsese started by saying he just wants younger generations to understand the MCU isn’t the only source of entertainment. When the interviewer said that he believed they “already think that” (a reductive and silly claim), Scorsese said auteur directors with voice and vision had to fight back against that by continually reinventing themselves and finding a way to make movies. The venerated director himself has turned to streaming powerhouses Netflix and AppleTV+ for his two most recent movies.
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