Months before Barbie and Oppenheimer premiered to record-breaking success, Barbenheimer memes lit the internet ablaze — and, now, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese has weighed in on the box office phenomenon.
In a recent interview with the Hindustan Times, he noted that, although he has seen neither Barbie nor Oppenheimer, he believes the two movies' success was a positive revelation for independent filmmakers.
"I do think that the combination of Oppenheimer and Barbie was something special," he said. "It seemed to be, I hate that word, but the perfect storm. It came about at the right time. And the most important thing is that people went to watch these in a theatre. And I think that's wonderful."
He continued:
The way it fit perfectly — a film with such entertainment value, purely with the bright colours — and a film with such severity and strength, and pretty much about the danger of the end to our civilization — you couldn't have more opposite films to work together. It does offer some hope for a different cinema to emerge, different from what's been happening in the last 20 years, aside from the great work being done in independent cinema.
Scorsese's latest epic Killers of the Flower Moon stars his usual suspects, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons and Brendan Fraser. Check out the trailer below ahead of its debut in theatres on October 20.
Unlike his reverence for a pair of movies he's yet to even watch, the Goodfellas and Wolf of Wall Street director has been at the forefront of voices criticizing comic book movies' dominance in the cinema industry.
In a recent interview with the Hindustan Times, he noted that, although he has seen neither Barbie nor Oppenheimer, he believes the two movies' success was a positive revelation for independent filmmakers.
"I do think that the combination of Oppenheimer and Barbie was something special," he said. "It seemed to be, I hate that word, but the perfect storm. It came about at the right time. And the most important thing is that people went to watch these in a theatre. And I think that's wonderful."
He continued:
The way it fit perfectly — a film with such entertainment value, purely with the bright colours — and a film with such severity and strength, and pretty much about the danger of the end to our civilization — you couldn't have more opposite films to work together. It does offer some hope for a different cinema to emerge, different from what's been happening in the last 20 years, aside from the great work being done in independent cinema.
Scorsese's latest epic Killers of the Flower Moon stars his usual suspects, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons and Brendan Fraser. Check out the trailer below ahead of its debut in theatres on October 20.
Unlike his reverence for a pair of movies he's yet to even watch, the Goodfellas and Wolf of Wall Street director has been at the forefront of voices criticizing comic book movies' dominance in the cinema industry.
