James Gunn shared some honest thoughts about Martin Scorsese’s controversial comments about Marvel films years ago.
Back in 2019, Martin Scorsese made some comments about Marvel films that almost set the world on fire when he was promoting The Irishman. James Gunn was one of the directors who expressed his disappointment about what the acclaimed filmmaker said. Three years later and Gunn revisited Scorsese’s comments on the Happy Sad Confused podcast:
“I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel and then that is the only thing that would get him press for his movie. So he just kept coming out against Marvel so that he could get press for his movie. He’s creating his movie in the shadow of the Marvel films, and so he uses that to get attention for something he wasn’t getting as much attention as he wanted for it.”
While James Gunn admitted Martin Scorsese’s words hurt, he also agreed with some of his criticisms:
“He’s one of the greatest filmmakers who’s ever existed. I love his movies. I can watch his movies with no problem. And he said a lot of things I agree with. There are a lot of things that are true about what he said. There are a lot of heartless, soulless, spectacle films out there that don’t reflect what should be happening. I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve talked to film directors before they went and made a big movie, and said, ‘Hey, we’re in this together, let’s do something different with these big movies. Let’s make them something different than everything that has come before them.’ And then see them cater to every single studio whim and be grossed out, frankly.”
On Twitter, James Gunn later talked some more about his love for Martin Scorsese’s work and narrowed down on what he disagrees with him on:
Also for the record, Martin Scorsese is probably the world’s greatest living American filmmaker. I love & study his films & will continue to love & study his films. I disagree with him solely on one point: That films based on comic books are innately not cinema, that’s all. 🙏 https://t.co/By9IBe8HAm
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) August 4, 2021
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Sources: Happy Sad Confused and Twitter