Superhero films
Tom Holland contradicts Martin Scorsese
Tom Holland (left) thinks a lot of superhero films, Martin Scorsese less.
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Tom Holland and Martin Scorsese are divided on superhero films. The “Spider-Man” star now makes that clear.
US director Martin Scorsese (79, “The Irishman”) does not consider superhero films to be “cinema”, As he said a good two years ago, according to media reports, in an interview with “Empire”. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” star Tom Holland (25) now contradicts the master filmmaker in a new interview with “The Hollywood Reporter”. “He doesn’t know how it is because he never did one,” argues Holland.
“Everything the same, just on a different level”
He himself had made both Marvel films and those “that were in talk in the world of the Oscars”. “The only real difference is that one is a lot more expensive than the other.” How the British actor “shapes his character and how the director works out the arc of the story and the characters – it’s all the same, just on a different level”. For him, making superhero films is therefore definitely “real art”.
According to the 25-year-old, the pressure on actors in superhero blockbusters, which includes highly acclaimed stars like Benedict Cumberbatch (45) and Scarlett Johansson (37), is much higher than in other genres. Why? “When you make these films, good or bad, you know that millions of people are going to see them,” he explains. Small indie films, on the other hand, simply no one sees if they are bad. “So that brings with it different levels of pressure.”
Martin Scorsese compared Marvel blockbusters to theme parks
Martin Scorsese compared superhero films in 2019 with “theme parks” in said interview. “It’s not the cinema where human beings try to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being,” he explained. A month later, however, he put his point of view into perspective in an opinion piece in the “New York Times”. “Many of the series of films are made by people with considerable talent and artistry,” he wrote. The fact that he himself has no interest in such blockbusters is merely “a matter of personal taste and temperament”.