How soon they forget, but back in the 70s and 80s when director Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, came on to the scene they too faced harsh criticism for the movies they made.

Back then Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese were the new-age filmmakers, but their predecessors didn’t feel the same way so their movies were highly criticized. We know that most millennials have no clue about any of this but back in the day, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ was BASHED by critics and ripped to shreds, and now he’s doing the same to Marvel? Read on…

 

 

CelebNMovies247.com asks, “did we all take the blue pill from Morpheus and forget our movie history?” For some reason Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese have since he has made the Joker, a DC Comic film.

The 80-year-old “Godfather” director made the incendiary comments while in Lyon, France, to receive the Prix Lumiere for contributions to cinema, AFP reported.

Earlier this month, Scorsese had likened popular superhero flicks to “theme parks” rather than true cinema. He forgets its a new generation and things these days are all about capitolism, merch, mass marketing campaigns and more going beyond the movie screen.

We get that Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker, that is his creative gift, but why does he have to bash Marvel directors?

Scorsese said during an interview with Empire magazine:

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.

He added:

It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.

For Scorsese, Marvel is NOT cinema, but that’s him, just one man with a narrow vision. We would love to see what he would do with a Marvel film, but it would be hard because Martin does his thing. Marvel films are all connected, so have Scorsese locked into a format more than likely would not work, it’s not in his genetic mindset. The same goes for Coppola. Both directors are eclectic minds, which is why they make such great cinema. Their films are made to create a response, cause a psychological experience.

To be honest Marvel films don’t do any of that. Marvel films are to tell a story and bring a comicbook character to life. Marvel films are made to entertain, that is what Scorsese is trying to convey. His comments drew a slew of backlash, including from some of the writers and directors of the films he criticized.

The only problem is his response on Marvel movies has created a riff with some directors like James Gunn who had this to say:

Martin Scorsese is one of my 5 favorite living filmmakers. I was outraged when people picketed The Last Temptation of Christ without having seen the film. I’m saddened that he’s now judging my films in the same way. https://t.co/hzHp8x4Aj8

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 4, 2019

As for Coppola, he felt that Scorsese was being too kind.

Coppola said while speaking to a journalist in Lyon:

When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he’s right, because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration. I don’t know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same move over and over again. Martin was kind when he said it’s not cinema. He didn’t say it’s despicable, which I just say it is.

James Gunn, who directed “Guardians of the Galaxy,” took to Instagram on Sunday to argue that Scorsese and Coppola criticism.

In fact, Gunn pointed out that Scorsese and Coppola were repeating the same line of criticism that older generations gave them when they were younger.

He noted that gangster movies, which have been closely associated with Coppola and Scorsese, were once called “despicable” by “our grandfathers,” who also regarded the films of John Ford, Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone as “exactly the same.”

Gunn wrote:

Some superhero films are awful, some are beautiful. Like westerns and gangster movies (and before that, just MOVIES), not everyone will be able to appreciate them, even some geniuses. And that’s okay.