Kevin Feige Finally Responds To Martin Scorsese's Marvel Movie Criticisms
As director Martin Scorsese continues to share his opinion on Marvel movies not being cinema because they don’t involve “human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”
Fans have been wondering what Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige thoughts are on all this, and he finally responded during an interview with Scott Feinberg on The Hollywood Reporter’s podcast Awards Chatter. Obviously, he defended his films and the risks that they take saying:
"I think that's not true. I think it's unfortunate. I think myself and everyone who works on these movies loves cinema, loves movies, loves going to the movies, loves to watch a communal experience in a movie theater full of people.
“We did Civil War. We had our two most popular characters get into a very serious theological and physical altercation. We killed half of our characters at the end of a movie. I think it’s fun for us to take our success and use it to take risks and go in different places.”
I’m not sure using the example of killing off half the characters in Infinity War is a good argument because, well… they brought them all back to life! Regardless, The Marvel films have explored some heavy subject matters with their characters over the years.
Feige goes on to acknowledge that he and Scorsese may have different definitions of what “risk” entails in Hollywood, and ends on a diplomatic note saying that “Everybody is entitled to their opinion”:
“Everybody has a different definition of cinema. Everybody has a different definition of art. Everybody has a different definition of risk. Some people don’t think it’s cinema. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. Everyone is entitled to repeat that opinion. Everyone is entitled to write op-eds about that opinion, and I look forward to what will happen next. But in the meantime, we’re going to keep making movies.”
So, now that we’ve heard what Kevin Feige thinks, I think it’s time to put this debate to rest. What are your thoughts on Feige’s comments?