Martin Scorsese Says Filmmakers Need To "Save Cinema" From Comic Book Culture
Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese has opened up on the comic book and franchise culture.
Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, who is known for projects like 'Taxi Driver', 'Raging Bull', 'Goodfellas', 'Gangs of New York', 'The Wolf of Wall Street', and 'The Irishman', has opened up on the comic book and franchise culture. This is not the first time that he has talked about the issue. In a sprawling new profile with GQ, Scorsese said that the omnipresence of comic book movies could be negative to audiences who are not well-versed in other types of movies.
“The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture. Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those — that’s what movies are," Scorsese said, as reported by Variety.
“They (audience) already think that. Which means that we have to then fight back stronger. And it’s got to come from the grassroots level. It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides. Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got. Go out there and do it. Go reinvent. Don’t complain about it. But it’s true, because we’ve got to save cinema," he added.
Martin Scorsese also spoke at length about the streaming-era definition of content, as opposed to actual cinema.
“I do think that the manufactured content isn’t really cinema,” he said.
“It’s almost like AI making a film. And that doesn’t mean that you don’t have incredible directors and special effects people doing beautiful artwork. But what does it mean? What do these films, what will it give you? Aside from a kind of consummation of something and then eliminating it from your mind, your whole body, you know? So what is it giving you," he added.
Martin Scorsese's next project 'Killers of the Flower Moon', starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert de Niro, is slated to release in October this year.
