I told you. I warned you. Stop with the dopey #TeamMarty #TeamMarvel fan club fighting or I would have to step in myself. And if you don't like it, remember, you made me do it. Marty v Marvel and my farewell to the New Hollywood is up at @BookPlusFilm:https://bookandfilmglobe.com/film/marty-vs-marvel/ …
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“I recently saw what I’ve always been told was Jack [Ford’s] greatest picture, and it’s terrible. The Searchers.” – Orson Welles, god of cinema, has spoken, time to toss it out.pic.twitter.com/f2OCAVKwPZ
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“I never saw such a piece of junk in my life." - Frank Capra, on Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." He's right, what were you thinking?pic.twitter.com/AARkSTd82X
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"No! Especially not that. I don’t like porn – these easy liberal movies. A lot of junk.” – John Ford, when asked if he'd seen Midnight Cowboy. Lib porn? Me, I like it, but when the gods of cinema speak, you listen. Transfer it to nitrate, toss it on the fire, out it goes!pic.twitter.com/kPcUL5goD6
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“The tragedy of Willie and Stevens and Fred Zinnemann, these were great men, but they just weren’t part of the froggy conspiracy” – Mike Nichols, on the radical film aesthetic of New Hollywood, and what was now art and what was not.pic.twitter.com/kK2Gmj20rw
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Replying to @benschwartz_ @BookPlusFilm
The assumption here is that Marvel movies are comparable with The Searchers, Apocalypse Now or Midnight Cowboy. I like the Marvel movies but I don't think that's so.
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No, the point is that aesthetics of different generations change radically. Capra and Ford evaluated film on content more than auteurist storytelling or directorial personality, whereas the next generation valued that a lot less and direction much more.
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There is no evidence that Scorsese is out of touch with young filmmakers who make non-Marvel movies (who are much more aesthetically adventurous than most Marvel, to be frank).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @BookPlusFilm
You lost me, I never said that he was. You didn't read the piece, right?
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Replying to @benschwartz_ @BookPlusFilm
yes, but I was trying to show why the idea that this is just a generational divide doesn't hold water.
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