Martin Scorsese Criticizes Marvel Movies Again, Says Audiences Must ‘Fight Back’ Against Comic Book Movie Culture
25.09.2023 - 19:13
/ etcanada.com
Martin Scorsese is voicing his opinion on Marvel movies again.
The filmmaker — who has been promoting his latest flick “Killers of the Flower Moon” — previously hit headlines after saying Marvel movies were “not cinema.”
Scorsese then spoke about the comic book entertainment industry in a new interview with GQ four years later, saying of how much of it currently makes up what you can see in a theatre: “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture.
“Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”
Scorsese went on, “They already think that. Which means that we have to then fight back stronger. And it’s got to come from the grassroots level. It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides. Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got. Go out there and do it. Go reinvent. Don’t complain about it. But it’s true, because we’ve got to save cinema.”
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Scorsese said cinema could be anything, it didn’t just have to be serious — for example, “Some Like It Hot” was cinema.
However, the movie-maker added, “I do think that the manufactured content isn’t really cinema.”
Scorsese continued, “No, I don’t want to say it. But what I mean is that, it’s manufactured content. It’s almost like AI making a film. And that doesn’t mean that you don’t have incredible directors and special effects people doing beautiful artwork. But what does it mean? What do these films, what will it give you? Aside from a kind of