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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.
And what the heck is wrong with a theme park?
Recently, while sitting on a panel at the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival, Scorsese expanded on those comments:
The value of a film that’s like a theme park film, for example, the Marvel type pictures where the theaters become amusement parks, that’s a different experience. As I was saying earlier, it's not cinema, it’s something else. Whether you go for that or not, it is something else and we shouldn’t be invaded by it. And so that’s a big issue, and we need the theater owners to step up for that to allow theaters to show films that are narrative films.
I must respectfully disagree with the legendary director and filmmaker. In the MCU movies in particular there are some very complex characters. Oh sure, early on the Tony Stark character was pretty one-dimensional. But in the later movies (I'd say from Captain America: Civil War forward), the depth of the persona was built really well (credit certainly due to the excellent writing and portrayal by Robert Downey, Jr.).
But also, while he knocks MCU movies (and I would assume any movie in the "superhero" genre), he starts by admitting that he doesn't "see them". You should really check some of these films out Marty - you might be surprised by what you see...
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