Marvel Movies and the Importance of Waiting
Recently, Martin Scorsese caught some flack for likening Marvel movies -- and superhero movies in general -- to theme parks. His biggest criticism was that these stories present no emotional stakes for the characters and subsequently, for the audience. There are many ways in which Marvel movies differ from the works that Scorsese would point to as pinnacles of filmmaking. In his New York Times opinion piece , Scorsese gives Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie as examples among others. Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie But is Scorsese's criticism justified? Are today's moviegoers really unacquainted with film as an art form? Aren't there countless Marvel movies that comfortably rate over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes? Is Martin Scorsese just an old-timer who simply doesn't get the new form of filmmaking? In the opinion piece, Scorsese writes that true filmmaking is about characters, about how people engage with or even i...