Filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppola not only share the status of legends; as we have reported many times, these Hollywood icons also criticize the superhero trend, the genre’s lack of creativity and whether these films “kill” the art of cinema. However, actor Tim Blake Nelson, who plays The Leader in Captain America: Brave New World, countered this in an interview with The Wrap during Comic-Con this weekend and said just the opposite:
“Marvel has become a phenomenon unprecedented in the history of cinema. These dozens of films in which characters move in and out of each other’s storylines, come together, move apart, fight each other in a single universe: this has never happened before in films.
When people attack these films as, ‘Well, it’s not real cinema’ or ‘This is the death of cinema’, I actually think it’s keeping cinema alive, and I really mean that.”
Considering what a monster hit Deadpool & Wolverine seem to have become worldwide, Nelson is probably right, but do you agree?
