'When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he’s right, because we expect to learn something from cinema'
Photo: Arnold JEROCKI/Getty Images Earlier this month, our honorary nonno, Martin Scorsese, decided to wage a war of words against the Marvel Cinematic Universe: He declared the franchise as being “not cinema” and nothing more than “theme parks,” and also encouraged cinemas to prevent being “invaded” by them in the future. Now, his buddy Francis Ford Coppola is busting out some even saltier anti-Marvel rhetoric.
As reported by Yahoo! News at the annual Lumière Festival, the director, while accepting a lifetime-achievement award, wanted the record to show that Iron Man 3 is no Patton. Or that Thor: Ragnarok is no The Godfather Part II. “When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he’s right, because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration.
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