Martin Scorsese lit a match to American pop culture when he criticized Marvel movies in a recent interview with a British film magazine.
“I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” he told Empire. “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”
Yeah, I agree.
But Scorsese, the director of Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and The Irishman, took a lot of heat for the comment. So he wrote a spirited defense in The New York Times, which pretty much said the same thing. The fuss led film critic Adam Nyman to compile a list of his favorite Scorsese shots. Watch this 15-minute video and you’ll see some great stuff and learn the difference between a trucking shot and a long take,