Scorsese VS the Marvel Universe
Time has come for me to weigh in on the polemic that has taken over the Facebook feeds of film aficionados and Marvel movies fans for the last few weeks. I myself have enjoyed the MCU films tremendously, and also happen to consider Martin Scorsese a National Treasure, having seen most of his films, and counting some of them among my all-time favorite movies of all time. The man who is considered by many as one of the best living director, and a film scholar by excellence, stated the following words to Empire about Marvel movies: “I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being,” What followed was a rash of uninspired interviewers asking that same query to other legendary film-makers, some as far removed...