{"id":106711,"date":"2021-09-16T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/too-many-marvel-movies-are-nothing-more-than-a-cut-and-paste-of-others-denis-villeneuve\/"},"modified":"2021-09-16T18:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T12:30:18","slug":"too-many-marvel-movies-are-nothing-more-than-a-cut-and-paste-of-others-denis-villeneuve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/too-many-marvel-movies-are-nothing-more-than-a-cut-and-paste-of-others-denis-villeneuve\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Too many Marvel movies are nothing more than a cut and paste of others.&#8221;  Denis Villeneuve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A few statements from <strong>Martin Scorsese<\/strong> about superhero cinema they raised the controversy a couple of years ago.  In them, the director of &#8216;The Irishman&#8217; defended that those films were not cinema, but &#8220;<em>amusement parks<\/em>&#8220;. It has now been <strong>Denis Villeneuve<\/strong> who has made it clear that he is not a great follower of the Marvel adventures.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;They have turned us into zombies a bit&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>In an interview with El Mundo on the occasion of the promotional campaign for &#8216;Dune&#8217;, Villeneuve pointed out that the majority of Marvel films <strong>they look too much like each other<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps the problem is that we are in front of too many Marvel movies that are nothing more than a &#8220;cut and paste&#8221; of others.  Perhaps these types of movies have turned us into zombies a bit &#8230; But big and expensive movies of great value there are many today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it is that the own director of &#8216;The arrival&#8217; also defends in the interview that &#8220;<em>I have never felt like a loss or an impediment to have a generous budget to do what I wanted to do<\/em>&#8220;It is clear that he refers to both his latest work and &#8216;Blade Runner 2049&#8217;, but he has no problem in pointing to <strong>Christopher Nolan and Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n<\/strong> when it highlights filmmakers capable of making a movie &#8220;<em>on a big budget<\/em>&#8221; that are &#8220;<em>at the same time artistically relevant<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avengers unite!  In what order should you watch all the movies in the Marvel Universe?\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/d93d8d\/marvel\/375_142.jpeg\" title=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I suspect that Villeneuve&#8217;s words are doomed to be controversial, since the <strong>Marvel Universe<\/strong> has millions of followers, being the most popular film franchise today.  For my part, what of some are perhaps too similar to each other I see a fairly accurate statement.  After all, any studio will prefer to bet it safe when it knows that something works, and very well, at the box office.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dune&#8217; premieres this Friday <strong>September, 17th<\/strong> in Spain.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few statements from Martin Scorsese about superhero cinema they raised the controversy a couple of years ago. In them, the director of &#8216;The Irishman&#8217; defended that those films were not cinema, but &#8220;amusement parks&#8220;. It has now been Denis Villeneuve who has made it clear that he is not a great follower of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":106712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3374],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/1d2adb\/denis-villeneuve-marvel\/840_560.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}