Recently, Marvel is not very peaceful in foreign countries. The famous director Quentin Tarantino criticized the Marvel movies in the show, which made the superhero movies that had a lot of criticism in the movie circle once again. Pushed to the forefront.
He said that nowadays Hollywood movies are gradually becoming "Marvel", relying on the same routine and IP influence to seize the market, the success factor is only relying on the popularity of the brand, actors and directors are just tool people, There will no longer be superstars recognized for their acting skills like before, and now is simply the worst era in Hollywood.
In fact, this is not the first time that Marvel has been criticized by the director. Since the establishment of the Marvel universe and its popularity all over the world, it has been criticized by many heavyweights in the industry.
Some children's shoes may say that these directors are nothing more than seeing the success of the Marvel Universe, so they are jealous or just want to catch the heat.
so is it true? Let's take a look at the magnitude of those who criticize Marvel movies.
In Hollywood in the last century, the entire film industry was still developing at that time, but a group of energetic young people joined it. These young people were called "movie ghost heads".
Although they were not favored by the outside world at the beginning, they later led the entire era. Some created IPs that swept the country and influenced the entire cultural circle. One of the classic series of movies, and some established the normative model of Hollywood commercial films.
They have promoted the development of the entire Hollywood film industry. It can be clearly said that without them, there would be no glory in Hollywood. Their status in the industry is very high.
Two of the "little devils", Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, once criticized Marvel without shame.
Martin believes that Marvel movies, which are like assembly-line movies like industrial factories, have the same production mode, and they are not qualified to be called movies at all. It is more appropriate to say that they are theme parks.
Francis said that what do audiences get from watching these same Marvel movies over and over again? What can be learned? What can I understand? He thought it was polite to say that Marvel movies are not movies, and directly used the word "despicable".
Another heavyweight director Ang Lee , who has won Hollywood Best Director twice, and has also made famous movies such as " Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" , his attitude towards Marvel is not as good as Martin and the others Intense, but still full of disdain.
He said that after all, Marvel movies are big productions that cost money. It is a bit too much to say that they are not movies, but he himself has no interest in these movies. He thinks that audiences will feel tired after watching too much. If you use it repeatedly, you will lose to the Internet in the end. · Cameron , also does not wait to see Marvel. As early as 2018,
expressed the hope that audiences would get tired of Marvel movies as soon as possible, because he believed that it would not be a good thing for the development of the industry to let this kind of assembly line movies dominate science fiction movies for a long time.
this year Cameron also said that the characters in Marvel movies behave like students without any depth, and bluntly said that this is not the correct way to make movies.
In addition to these heavyweights, there are many other people in the circle who also don't like Marvel.
Including the director of " Blade Runner 2049" believes that Marvel movies are "copy and paste" and have no technical content at all; Jason Statham said that Marvel movies that allow actors to stand in front of a green screen pose themselves The grandmother can act; Xiao Lizi advises the new generation of actors Tiancha not to touch superhero movies and so on.
If one or two directors criticize, it can be ignored, but so many big names in the industry don't like to see it, there must be some reason.
said that they are jealous or want to gain popularity, which is obviously not the case. Not to mention that all these heavyweight directors have made works that are enough to make their names in the film industry. With their current status, there is no need to gain popularity at all. , because they are neither short of money nor short of honor.
In fact, from the perspective of the industry itself, the movie market needs entertainment popcorn movies like Marvel. After all, many people watch movies just to relax and have fun.
But the critical points of these famous directors are obviously focused on Marvel's production mode, which is the so-called assembly line.
To put it simply, the Marvel movie itself means that the producer has completed the frame and every link, the difference is only the content stuffed inside, so that the director and actors can be said to have no room for development and experience at all.
Most of the time in the film, the actors are like Jason Statham said, fiddling with poses in front of the green screen, and then the post-production special effects are done. Since it is a popcorn film, the storyline is very simple. The actors There is no need to think that you can hone your acting skills or something. Not to mention the
director, who is basically a tool man. From the perspective of the production method of Marvel movies, the director will not be allowed to add his own ideas or things he wants to express in the movie.
In the long run, this is indeed not conducive to the development of the industry. Actors rely on the influence of IP and characters to make money, and they have no acting skills. At best, they can only be called traffic stars. Not to mention the director
, he can't even shoot the elements he wants to express, so how can he develop?
However, since Marvel movies have become a "long-term meal ticket" for many people, it is no surprise that some actors countered the claims of several famous directors, but their rebuttals are quite confusing.
For example, Liu Simu , who plays Shang Qi, is angry that Quentin is not qualified to make irresponsible remarks on him, and even pulls Martin out to scold him, saying that he created the protagonist of the so-called Hollywood glory era in the last century It's all white, and now it's Marvel that gives actors of other races a chance.
I have to say that Liu Simu is also really floating. He made a Marvel movie, and the global box office of this movie is only 400 million US dollars, which is not as good as "Thor 1" back then. confidence.
Tom Holland , who plays Spider-Man, also confronted Martin positively, saying that he didn’t understand what a Marvel movie was at all. .
Holland is actually an actor with a lot of traffic. The reason why the box office of the Spider-Man movie he starred in is largely due to the influence of IPs such as Spider-Man and Marvel, not how good his acting skills are. How high is the appeal.
As for his saying that directors like Martin don’t understand what a movie is, there is a phenomenon that is often seen on the Internet, a group of young people laughing: “ Jin Yong is just a novelist, he knows a ghostly martial arts.” Really. It's ridiculous.
This is also because of the "Marvelization" of Hollywood, so now actors don't have to work as hard as before, reading scripts to understand roles? Focus on acting? No need at all, anyway, assembly line movies.
But this is actually killing the creativity of the industry.
can only say, let's see what Hollywood will become in the future.
