Hollywood awards season battle is about to start. When the top seed "The Irishman" gained a good reputation in the outpost, its director Martin Scorsese seemed to be far more popular because of a remark about Marvel movies. New film. >>> Scorsese bombarded Marvel movies, not called movies
Martin Scorsese said he had never watched Marvel movies, he tried his best, but there was no way, it is not "cinema", he can think of The closest analogy is the theme park. He mentioned at the end that Marvel movies are not movies where one person tries to convey emotional and spiritual experience to another person.
After his remarks, the first person to respond was James Gunn, director of Guardians of the Galaxy. He felt sad because Martin Scorsese was one of his most respected filmmakers. I made such a comment without watching a Marvel movie. "Doctor Strange" screenwriter C. Robert Cargill expressed support for Martin Scorsese's remarks.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" stills.
At first glance, Martin Scorsese’s remarks are a criticism of Marvel movies, but in fact, he said such a remark based on the development of the entire Hollywood film, and modified the universe model represented by Marvel movies. The work defines a theme park. Is "theme park" a derogatory term? This is not the case. Walt Disney started with theme parks and then opened his own animation and film empire. Today, Disneyland still symbolizes a dream and brings happiness to countless people.
"Theme Park" has always been a model that Hollywood commercial movies excel at. The best among them, can also be said to be the person who takes this model to the extreme, is the same as Martin Scorsese as the "New Hollywood Four" "The Spielberg. Regardless of the "Jaws", "ET Aliens" and "Indiana Jones" series, "Jurassic Park" itself is a theme park, and last year's "Number One Player" was upgraded in the new era. " Theme park" movie mode.
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Many films from other countries are also following this model. For example, South Korea's "Walk with God" series, which has a very high box office, turns different parts of hell into different sections of theme parks. The core of this model lies in deconstruction. Each section of the story advancement can be regarded as an amusement facility in a theme park. It gives the audience sensory and psychological stimulation, often in a way of creating fear, like a roller coaster ride. To the top, and then relieve this fear, so as to achieve the effect of entertainment. The
movie is an exotic product, as we originally called it a movie, and later changed to a movie. It also has several names in the Western world. Just take English as an example. Now the accustomed term is movie, and the other is film, cinema used by Martin Scorsese. Among these three words, film and cinema have a slightly shifting meaning. The former is a film and the latter is a cinema, and it is these two that define what a movie is. Film is the body of the movie, while watching a movie in the cinema is the spirit of the movie. But now it has entered a new movie era. Movies are no longer filmed, and the medium for watching movies has changed from the cinema screen to a variety of screens. A mobile phone is a "silver screen."
This points to the last point in Martin Scorsese's remarks, "A person tries to convey emotional and spiritual experiences to another person." His new film "The Irishman" was invested by Netflix, so he naturally understands that the passing of the film age is irreversible, but at the same time he is eager to protect the spirit of the film. The past theme park movies still have this spirit, and they will extend into Movie series, but only continue the homogeneity of emotional shaping in the series. And the comic film creation that enters the universe mode is a larger group copy, whether it is Marvel or DC, they are like a single clone, subtle differences, or deliberate infusion, can not be Change their monotony.
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If Martin Scorsese's remarks are taken as a concern, it becomes another issue. Last year, "Black Panther" was nominated for Oscar for Best Picture. This year, "Avengers 4" is preparing to declare several Oscars. The recent Venice Film Festival "Joker" won the Golden Lion. Martin Scorsese's alarmist talk may be a warning that not only does comic film dominate the market commercially, it is also eager to invade the field of art. >> "Small"Ugly" won the Golden Lion Award, and the jury still regrets: it can no longer give a single award
. There have been too many discussions about Venice. The opposition generally believes that Venice is an art film festival with a stable evaluation style and should not be awarded to a commercial Masterpiece. But the Oscar itself is a mainstream film award, and the choice of such films is not a problem. The problem lies in the disguise made by the comic movie to squeeze into it, just like the story of "The Magic Flower", the alien enters the human body, the appearance is still the original person, but the inside is completely manipulated by the alien . Manga movies are like these aliens. They look like Oscars and even Venice would choose the kind of movie, but what is their heart?
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