Hollywood director Martin Scorsese
the 92nd Oscar registration door has been opened, the major film parties’ bid for the Olympics has started, and the Hollywood awards season is approaching.
At the 91st Oscar at the beginning of this year, the Marvel movie "Black Panther" won 7 nominations, including a best picture nomination. This is the first time a Super British movie has been nominated for an Oscar for best picture, a super British movie The road to important awards has also opened up, and its artistry is also being valued. DC (DC Comics and Marvel Comics are also known as the two major comics giants in the United States)'s "Joker" won this year's Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award is the best proof.
has the golden lion award blessing, "Joker" has already become a popular movie next year's Oscar. The film was released in North America on October 4, and the box office on the first day was as high as 39.9 million U.S. dollars, becoming the highest box office record for a single day in North American film history. This beautiful achievement undoubtedly added weight to its Oscar road.
, as DC’s old rival, Marvel, of course, is not to be outdone. A few days ago, Disney announced the "Crossing Olympics Plan" and announced that Marvel’s "Avengers 4" will participate in the best film, best director, best original soundtrack, etc. There are 12 competitions in total.
Of course, the road to winning awards for super-English films is not smooth, and someone is pouring cold water at any time. Hollywood director Martin Scorsese is one of them.
Marvel is not a movie?
The great director picks up the topic again.
. Many people still think that it is a money-making machine, not an art. So Oscar also dodged it for a while, and the awards were often biased towards technical fringe categories. Nolan's " "The Dark Knight" is fully capable of participating in the Best Picture and Best Director, but in the end it was not even nominated, which made the fans indignant.
Now, Martin Scorsese has provoked the topic again, expressing serious disdain for Super British movies. Martin Scorsese can be regarded as a master director. He has nominated 10 Oscars for Best Director. In 2007, he won the 79th Oscar for Best Director with "Infinite Walker" and won the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival many times. The awards include "Angry Bull", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "The Gang of New York", "Hugo" and "The Wolf of Wall Street".
's 10-year-old film "The Irishman" was so popular that the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes was 100%, and the director said in an interview that "Marvel movies cannot be called a movie" during an interview to promote the film. When
said this, it caused an uproar. James Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, said: “Martin Scorsese is one of my favorite five living film directors. His early film "The Last Temptation of Christ" has caused widespread protests. Many people criticized the film without watching it. I was very angry at the time and opposed to criticizing it without watching it. I am very sad now. He is criticizing our film in the same way. However, I will still always like Martin’s movies."
"Nebula" Karen Gillan responded: "I can say with certainty that Marvel movies are movies. "Guardians of the Galaxy" is full of spiritual power, and Infused with the soul of James Gunn. He injected a lot of his own personality, his sense of humor... This fully reflects who he is as a person, so this is very cinematic. He is an artist. "
compared to these people Expressing dissatisfaction with Scorsese’s remarks, Robert Downey Jr. was more neutral. “At the beginning, we didn’t expect the Marvel universe to develop into what it is today, like a giant hydra. This is his personal opinion. …We need the perspectives of all parties to grasp the key points and look forward.”
In fact, Martin Scorsese is not the only director who publicly expressed his dislike of Marvel movies. James Cameron also expressed his dislike of superheroes. Movie, in April 2018, he also publicly bombarded superhero movies: "I hope we can get tired of "Avengers" soon."
Super British movies lack innovation?
Dissatisfaction or because of helplessness
For old directors like Martin Scorsese, movies are a stage for actors to express their humanity to the audience, while Marvel movies cannot do this. Cameron believes that super British movies lack Creativity, always those patterns, makes people a little bit aesthetically tired.
In the eyes of these old directors, movies are the art of dreaming, more or less sacred and difficult to replicate, and more and more movies, includingIncluding Marvel and DC, movies have become more and more routines, and industrialized assembly line production has made movies more and more a business.
Actually, Martin Scorsese and Cameron’s "dissatisfaction" may be more of a kind of helplessness towards the development of modern movies. They also know that the times are moving forward and the world cannot do without this kind of movies. . Therefore, when the box office of "Avengers 4" just surpassed "Titanic", Cameron sent a message congratulating "Avengers 4" and Marvel Pictures: "The iceberg sank the real Titanic, and the Avengers let My "Titanic" sinks, and each of us pays tribute to your gratifying achievements. You have shown that the film industry is not only alive and well, but also stronger than ever."
is optimistic that Marvel and DC are obviously also Having realized the problems mentioned by Scorsese and Cameron, there is the depth of Nolan in "The Dark Knight" and the depth shown in "Joker" now. Marvel and DC's movies have achieved the ultimate in visual effects. If they can take a step forward in the story and performance, then their movie universe is really strong enough to be defeated.
A good movie is definitely not just pure business or pure art. It must be the best balance between business and consciousness. Marvel and DC, which have powerful resources, obviously have a strong advantage in this regard. Perhaps in the future, such movies will become regular Oscars. (Text/Reporter Xiao Yang and Coordinator/Man Yi)
