Chris Hemsworth Reacts to Marvel Criticism from Acclaimed Directors Like Martin Scorsese
Chris Hemsworth is speaking out in response to criticism that Marvel movies have received from acclaimed directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
Scorsese previously told Empire, “I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”
Coppola saw Scorsese‘s comments and went even further. He said, “When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he’s right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration. I don’t know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again… Martin was kind when he said it’s not cinema. He didn’t say it’s despicable, which I just say it is.”
Now, Chris is sharing his thoughts.
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“It felt harsh,” he told The Times of London. “And it bothers me, especially from heroes. It was an eye-roll for me, people bashing the superhero space. Those guys had films that didn’t work too — we all have. When they talked about what was wrong with superheroes, I thought, cool, tell that to the billions who watch them. Were they all wrong?”
He added that “cinema-going did not change because of superheroes, but because of smartphones and social media.” He also said that “superhero films actually kept people in the cinemas during that transition and now people are coming back. So they deserve a little more appreciation.”
Chris also spoke out in response to Marvel actors bashing their own movies.
“It’s, like, ‘They’re films that are successful — put me in one. Oh, mine didn’t work? I’ll bash them.’ Look, I grew up on a soap opera. And it used to bother me when actors would later talk about the show with guilt or shame. Humility goes a long way,” Chris said. “One of the older actors on Home and Away said, ‘We don’t get paid to make the good lines sound good, but to make the bad ones work.’ That stuck with me. But hey, it’s all a lesson. And if I ever went back to [Thor] I’d wonder how we could change it again. But there is a superhero curse in the sense you get pigeonholed, and I’ve felt a little hamstrung with what I could do, so desperately wanted something to scare the sh-t out of me. And Furiosa did.”
Chris recently opened up about the failure of his latest Thor movie.