It's perhaps not a defining aspect of cinema as traditionally understood but the fact that MCU requires deep immersive knowledge does make it narratively interesting (true also of the comics). It's a new type of narrative, one critics have a hard time grappling with. https://twitter.com/keithcalder/status/1192620991777837056 …
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Stop. I’m not going to convert to comics guy. I don’t need pictures with my stories
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And they layed the ground early for that with their elaborate cross-referencing conventions, and with midrashic takes like What If, or Marvel Knights
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moychendizing on moychendizing (to paraphrase Yogurt)
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In comics, the idea that "the foundational text" is inviolable would be absurd. Characters origins get rewritten, rebooted, redated -- the dead come back to life, multiverses proliferate ...
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The same is true of the Bible.
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