Culture news “A generational divide” The Marvel crisis is due to the fans and not the superheroes!
Brothers Anthony and Joe Russo discussed the public’s fatigue with superheroes. According to them, it is not cinema that is at fault, but rather the morals of the public, which have changed. Spectators no longer have the same vision as directors.
Having worked on films such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014 or even on Avengers Endgame in 2019, the Russo brothers are not their first attempt at directing films Marvel. However, it has been a while since the MCU continues with difficulties and very average scores at the global box office. For filmmakers, it’s a generational shock.
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Growing weariness
The reception (quality?) of films and series Marvel Studios has been in decline for many months. The studio is going through its most difficult period, with The Marvelswhich became the lowest-grossing film in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. According to Anthony Russo, fatigue is general. At least that’s what he told GamesRadar at the international film festival in Scotland.
The issue of superhero fatigue existed long before our work. So this is kind of an ongoing complaint, which we used to cite in our early days in the superhero business.
He goes on to state those who complained about westerns. They lasted for decades and decades. They have been continually reinvented and taken to new heights over time. However, we complained in the same way. As for Joe Russo, here’s what he thinks about all this:
I think it’s a reflection of the current state of everything. It’s tough right now, but it’s an interesting time. I think we’re in a period of transition and people don’t yet know how they’re going to receive stories in the future, or what kind of stories they’re going to want.
The “everything, right away” generation
Joe Russo continues and talks about a generational clash.
There is a big generation gap in how we consume media. There is a generation that is used to watching films by appointment and going to the cinema on a certain date to see this production or that work, but it is getting older.
This is a very different time than what the world has ever known. Digitization, this digital world at your fingertips, has truly changed this seventh art, but no one knows what form this change will take. Everyone, including Marvel, experiences the same thing. This is undoubtedly what plays the most on the successes and non-successes of today’s superhero films.
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