One detail that isn’t getting enough attention in the Great “Cinema” Discourse War of 2019 is that our collective cultural notions of what constitutes legitimate or great cinema have always been extremely limited: overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly directed by & focused on men.
Well, considering that the Marvel movies are cultural juggernauts that rake in boatloads of money while Scorsese has spent his life championing and preserving great works of world cinema that most fuming Marvel fans don't give a fuck about, I don't feel too bad for Marvel here.
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Right, but no one's calling out these directors on whether what they do is one thing or another. So what's the deal? Do they feel threatened by the existence of big budget films in so much that they can't pursue what they find is valuable?
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I dunno, it's hard for me to interpret the all-encompassing lack of interest that most Marvel fans have for, say, the films of Satyajit Ray, as meaningfully different from not considering those films "cinema."
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