Marvel movies have been a gargantuan hit in theaters all across the world. However, it's not something Martin Scorsese thinks is good for the industry. And in a way, Willem Dafoe agrees with the director. He spoke at
92Y in NYC recently and here's some of what he had to say...
“Films have changed so much even in the time that I’ve been working, where they sit in the culture, obviously, and how we watch films. And I’m a pretty forward-looking person, but I’m old-fashioned in the fact that nothing beats being in a dark room with a bunch of strangers, watching a light on a screen and having the experience,”
Dafoe said. “I think as everybody gets punched out from too much stuff on TV, too many choices, they’re gonna want that. So it may be a more marginalized thing, but I think it’ll always be there.”
When it comes to the comic book movie world, he's appeared in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, as well as the Aquaman movie. So he has definitely gotten his feet wet in terms of these larger than life characters. He continues...
“I mean, I’ve done some of those movies, and they’re fun. But also, even then, I got lucky because they’ve been personal,” he said. “For example, Spider-Man was great fun because Sam Raimi made that like it was a little independent film. And also that was before a lot of the technology was in place, and comic book movies were fairly new, so it was exciting."
However, on that note, he added, "The industry outgrew itself."
So he obviously isn't the biggest fan of these films, but his opinion was interesting to hear nonetheless.
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