![]() ![]() He and Marvel have nothing to do with each other but are now inseparable, autocompleted Google Search terms thanks to the reliable engagement of mutual contempt. The poor guy can’t give an interview without the reporter asking him to once again expound on his distaste for the Marvel franchise, since that will provoke a massive fandom into attacking him, which in turn leads to Criterion collectors denouncing the current blockbuster monoculture. After a sign at a Colorado theater advertising their eight-minute interval went viral, producer Apple, distributor Paramount, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker took the necessary steps to halt such modifications, on the grounds that Scorsese intended no such break.Ĭall it the Marty Effect: Here’s a filmmaker deep in emotional inquiry, testing the very possibilities of visual narrative, who ends up triggering debates on virtually anything else that happens to be tangentially related. This past weekend, it was excessive outrage over some theaters inserting a short intermission in the middle of Flower Moon (which, at a runtime of nearly three and a half hours, tests even the sturdiest of bladders). The tale is a long, harsh, moral nightmare.Īlas, the public conversations we might have enjoyed about this powerful work of art are routinely derailed or stunted, or just pushed aside for some immature subject. ![]() That he’s 80 years old and bringing out the epic Killers of the Flower Moon, based on the chilling true story of the systematic murder of Osage citizens in the 1920s for their oil-rich Oklahoma land, shows how age has made him even more fearless in confronting American evil. Greed, wrath, envy, pride - name the flaw, he’s made it visceral on the screen. Across his grand filmography, Martin Scorsese has weighed up the deadly sins that make us all too human. ![]()
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