Perhaps the MCU could do a spin-off flick: Marvel actors versus Marvel-hating directors — Martin Scorsese could be their Thanos. In the meantime, our youngest Spider-Man, Tom Holland, has added his two cents to the never-ending superhero movie discourse.
Scorsese has been a vocal critique of Marvel for many years, even going so far as to write an op-ed for the New York Times titled "I Said Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema. Let Me Explain." The crux of the acclaimed director's various statements is that Marvel films aren't cinema.
It appears Holland is the latest to have taken issue with Scorsese's claims, arguing Marvel films are, indeed, "real art" while speaking to The Hollywood Reporter. "You can ask Scorsese, 'Would you want to make a Marvel movie?' But he doesn't know what it's like because he's never made one," Holland argued.
The British actor cites the 2012 Oscar-nominated movie The Impossible and, of course, his many films with Marvel in rebuttal to many filmmakers' disdain for superhero films:
I've made Marvel movies and I've also made movies that have been in the conversation in the world of the Oscars, and the only difference, really, is one is much more expensive than the other. But the way I break down the character, the way the director etches out the arc of the story and characters — it's all the same, just done on a different scale. So I do think they're real art.
The 25-year-old actor asserted that his fellow Marvel castmates would say the same, "I mean, you can also ask Benedict Cumberbatch or Robert Downey Jr. or Scarlett Johansson — people who have made the kinds of movies that are 'Oscar-worthy' and also made superhero movies — and they will tell you that they're the same, just on a different scale. And there's less Spandex in 'Oscar movies.'"
Debates aside, Holland seems to be doing just fine, with the debut of Spider-Man: No Way Home grossing over $260 million on its opening weekend, making it the second-best opening weekend of all time.
Scorsese has been a vocal critique of Marvel for many years, even going so far as to write an op-ed for the New York Times titled "I Said Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema. Let Me Explain." The crux of the acclaimed director's various statements is that Marvel films aren't cinema.
It appears Holland is the latest to have taken issue with Scorsese's claims, arguing Marvel films are, indeed, "real art" while speaking to The Hollywood Reporter. "You can ask Scorsese, 'Would you want to make a Marvel movie?' But he doesn't know what it's like because he's never made one," Holland argued.
The British actor cites the 2012 Oscar-nominated movie The Impossible and, of course, his many films with Marvel in rebuttal to many filmmakers' disdain for superhero films:
I've made Marvel movies and I've also made movies that have been in the conversation in the world of the Oscars, and the only difference, really, is one is much more expensive than the other. But the way I break down the character, the way the director etches out the arc of the story and characters — it's all the same, just done on a different scale. So I do think they're real art.
The 25-year-old actor asserted that his fellow Marvel castmates would say the same, "I mean, you can also ask Benedict Cumberbatch or Robert Downey Jr. or Scarlett Johansson — people who have made the kinds of movies that are 'Oscar-worthy' and also made superhero movies — and they will tell you that they're the same, just on a different scale. And there's less Spandex in 'Oscar movies.'"
Debates aside, Holland seems to be doing just fine, with the debut of Spider-Man: No Way Home grossing over $260 million on its opening weekend, making it the second-best opening weekend of all time.
