{"id":4297,"date":"2019-11-22T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drurymirror.org\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:42:42","slug":"movies-marvel-martin-scorsese-what-is-the-future-of-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/2019\/11\/22\/movies-marvel-martin-scorsese-what-is-the-future-of-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies, Marvel, Martin Scorsese: What is the future of cinema?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Popular doesn\u2019t mean bad, but popular doesn\u2019t mean artful, either<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martin Scorsese wrote in his op-ed for the \u201cNew York Times\u201d that Marvel doesn\u2019t qualify as cinema because there is nothing at risk in a plotline about superheroes, that they oversaturate the market. He\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>I adore the MCU with all my soul. \u201cThor: Ragnarok\u201d holds a permanent place in my heart and my top 5 movies of all time. However, just because I love them doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re making strides in the film industry or doing anything particularly path-breaking or unique. And that\u2019s fine! They bring comic books that are often inaccessible or gate-kept to the public eye and present fun, compelling stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026but there\u2019s definitely way too many of them and most are at least a little bit terrible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a chicken-and-egg issue. If people are given only one kind of thing and endlessly sold only one kind of thing, of course they\u2019re going to want more of that one kind of thing,\u201d Scorsese said in his piece.<\/p>\n<p>The monopolization of the movie industry by Disney is extraordinary and upsetting. The company \u2013 and Marvel even before they got bought out \u2013 formulize filmmaking. Scorsese isn\u2019t against superhero movies. He\u2019s taking a stand against these \u201cmarket-researched, audience-tested\u201d franchise films that steal theaters away from directors and titles that stand alone, seeking their time in the sun that is so often blotted out by billion-dollar blockbusters designed to enrapture the mass public.<\/p>\n<p>The Moxie Cinema downtown is a truly independent theater, with only two screens that rotate out between independent movies frequently.<\/p>\n<p>The Alamo Drafthouse is a corporate chain that is sucking the life out of places like the Moxie. Sure, they provide a screen for black-and-white classics and feature those art house films like Taika Watiti\u2019s latest, \u201cJojo Rabbit.\u201d But so does the Moxie, at a much cheaper rate and with a lot less space taken up by the blackout showings of \u201cRise of Skywalker\u201d that will start at the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Scorsese stresses the importance of creating evergreen characters. He cites the lasting nature of Hitchcock\u2019s movies in the human stories of the characters. A movie can be beautiful, but without substance it means next to nothing. Cinematography is more than a shot that looks pretty as a desktop. Films need to find their homes in the stories they\u2019re creating \u2013 and there can only be so many stories about comic book characters before you start begging people to just read the comics so the translations into film will end.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not a lot that the average person can do to change this, but Scorsese\u2019s evaluation of the industry is accurate. Original storytelling isn\u2019t dead, but it\u2019s suffocated by movies of remarkable sameness.<\/p>\n<p>Article written by Maclen Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular doesn&rsquo;t mean bad, but popular doesn&rsquo;t mean artful, either Martin Scorsese wrote in his op-ed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":4008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[276],"tags":[24,177,123,274,1966,1963,1964,593,124,1965],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drurymirror.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}