1. Lost amid the outrage over Scorsese's dissing of Marvel movies is the curious fact that Scorsese is, for better or worse, a formative influence on the current wave of dark, gritty superhero stories.
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5. The Scorsese homage plays into the (surprisingly strong) class warfare sensibility of "Joker." The origins of the Joker as an anti-social psycho is located in the very birth of neoliberalism amid the deindustrialization and tanking of the great American cities in the 1970s
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6. I have some more thoughts on the cultural politics of Joker and the influence of Scorsese here: https://www.thenation.com/article/movie-joker-class/ …
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and marvel as a general rule is less dark and gritty and more bright and grooty... I'll see myself out
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If there is a Marvel or Tarantino universe there is clearly a Scorsese universe.
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A friend posted this. It’s about the topic you’re tweeting about.https://www.patreon.com/posts/30633120
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Joker may not be an all time great, but Taxi Driver is super overrated, and not as good as Joker was.
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MCU needs to show Scorsese the $$ to make a good Daredevil movie
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I rather hope this isnt the start of a backlash to the backlash against the obsession with "grittiness" during the 90s -___-
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