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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Perhaps post-Scorsese, we can movie the debate forward by stipulating that Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are not cinema as traditionally understood and ask "well, what are they then?" https://twitter.com/keithcalder/status/1192620991777837056 …
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Here's a stab at a definition: MCU shows & films make up a multi-platform open-ended multi-authored roman fleuve whose appeal comes from immersion in the density of world-building.
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Now, I personally have never liked the open-ended soap opera aspect of Marvel comics (and later MCU films), preferring to skim them for surface pleasure to deep immersion. But a proper critical account needs to explain the appeal to the non-skimmers, the deep fans.
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Who will be the Manny Farber of Marvel comics & MCU films -- the critic who can burrow deep into the form and explain its unique properties and distinctive pleasures? I'm hoping
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@tnyfrontrow's two tweets offer a useful way to think about Marvel comics & MCU: there is a parallel with Talmudic & Christian exegetical texts in the way stories build on stories, interpretation on interpretation.https://twitter.com/tnyfrontrow/status/1191570600940199936 …Jeet Heer added,
Richard BrodyVerified account @tnyfrontrowThere's an extra element to superhero fandom: the foundational texts are revered like scripture, devotion to them is similar to religious faith, so criticism of the movies is taken personally—the films are now made to be "orthodox," the studios' fan service avoids "blaspheming"—Show this thread4 replies 3 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
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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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