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DL: actual Latino writer/director sees comic book movies as "poison" and "cultural genocide" (don't tell DMac)
DEADLINE: How does this lampooning of Hollywood’s fixation with superheroes affect your chance of ever getting a crack at one?
GONZALEZ INARRITU: I would be terrible. I think there’s nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there’s a disease in not growing up.but I think there’s a disease in not growing up. The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. When you put $100 million and you get $800 million or $1 billion, it is very hard to convince people. You tell them, you will put in $20 million and you will get $80 million. Now, that is a ****ing amazing business, but they say, “$80 million? I want $800 million.” Basically, the room to exhibit good nice films is over. These are taking the place of all those things.
DEADLINE: Is there anything you enjoy about these superhero films?
GONZALEZ INARRITU: I sometimes enjoy them because they are basic and simple and go well with popcorn. The problem is that sometimes they purport to be profound, based on some Greek mythological kind of thing. And they are honestly very right wing. I always see them as killing people because they do not believe in what you believe, or they are not being who you want them to be. I hate that, and don’t respond to those characters. They have been poison, this cultural genocide, because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and **** that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human.
http://deadline.com/2014/10/birdman-director-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-writers-interview-852206/
DL: actual Latino writer/director sees comic book movies as "poison" and "cultural genocide" (don't tell DMac) Oct 15, 17:55
And? One man's opinion speaks for an entire minority? What? {nm} Oct 15, 18:02
"art" is subjective. I wouldnt call Babel art. I wouldnt call Birdman art. But thats just my opinion. Oct 15, 18:36
I mean Robert Redford was in Captain America for moses sakes. He's done a lot for art. More than maybe a handful {nm} Oct 15, 18:38
Babel is an awful movie. Haven't seen Birdman yet. It's an interesting point re superhero movies although it's hardly... Oct 16, 03:02
In your opinion, what are examples of artistic films? {nm} Oct 16, 09:56
my tastes run pretty classical, but in terms of releases this year: Leviathan, Force Majeur, Blue Ruin, Duke of Burgundy Oct 16, 10:56
Also the tribe, goodnight mommy, field in England, the look of silence. Some of these are our films of course {nm} Oct 16, 15:55
So what.. If a movie isn't artistic then it shouldn't be made? {nm} Oct 16, 08:58
yes, exactly Oct 16, 09:04
Well, I think one could argue there is "art" in all of the best examples of those genres, but this is all very subjective {nm} Oct 16, 09:52
Exactly it's objective. You just can't blanket a whole genre as not being artistic {nm} Oct 16, 10:17
true. the original Superman and Superman II were actually great movies {nm} Oct 16, 10:23
Wait. You don't think The Exorcist, Eyes Without A Face, or Doctor Stangelove are artistic? {nm} Oct 16, 09:54
Oh I do.. I was being sarcastic in my statement about stop making comedies and horrors. {nm} Oct 16, 10:17
Reductio Ad Absurdam Man to the rescue Oct 16, 10:00
No; only the reasonable part of it. {nm} Oct 16, 10:05
This guy sounds like a clown to me... Oct 15, 19:46
LOL. {nm} Oct 16, 09:55
both of them {nm} Oct 16, 16:08
Well, that's just like, your opinion, man. {nm} Oct 15, 19:53
The Winter Soldier is one example of a comic book movie that's grown-up and sophisticated and artistically a triumph. Oct 16, 04:53
+1 {nm} Oct 16, 09:01
That's what I do with 20 million of my HSX money. :) {nm} Oct 16, 10:18
So wait.. Comic book movies aren't artistic but Ted is? {nm} Oct 16, 11:29
It's not that sophisticated. {nm} Oct 16, 09:57