Filmmaker Martin Scorsese wrote an article to account for his claim about how Marvel movies in Cinema in an interview with Empire magazine. At the beginning of the article, Martin explained how him not considering marvel movies as cinemas is just a matter of “personal taste” and went further on to explain why certain films are films whereas marvel movies are not. In the claim above, we can see Martin claiming that him not considering marvel movies as not cinema is a “matter of personal taste.” The standard definition of cinema is the production of movies as an art or industry. Art cannot be tied down to a person’s “personal taste.” Art itself is a broad term. Different people consider different things art. Moreover, Martin out of all people as a filmmaker should know that. His claim of Marvel movies not being art just because it does not suit his personal taste is controversial because the movie industry produces a wide genre of movies; targeting different audiences for each genre based on their personal taste.
Moreover, Martin stated that Marvel films are not just a matter of supply and demand because “it’s a chicken-and-egg issue” where a person wants one specific thing due to being used to getting that thing over and over again. However, this claim can be considered a bit controversial because Marvel producers have the option of adding and subtracting details every time, changing up the storyline, even changing up the character lineup and much more every time they are producing a Marvel movie.
Furthermore, Martin claims there are pictures that deserve to be on screen arguably more than Marvel movies since they deliver a wide genre of emotions and genres. While, Marvel movies are not cinemas to Marvin because at the end of the day every single one of them are superhero movies. However, just because Marvel movies are superhero movies does not mean they are not cinema because However, Marvel movies do the same. As a personal viewer of Marvel movies, I would like to state that I look forward to every new movie to see what would happen next and I am sure I would not be looking forward to Marvel movies if I already knew what would be happening in the next movie. And, I can assure you that 54% of US adults aged from 18 to 34 would not be doing the same if all Marvel movies delivered the same emotions and storyline every time. Besides, Americans get their daily dose of the “chicken-and-egg” issue by going to their 9:00am to 5:00pm job every day.
To tie it all together, Marvel movies are cinemas because they deliver a wide genre of emotions with various characters and storylines in each and every one. And, Filmmaker Martin himself explained that him not considering Marvel movies as cinemas is a matter of “personal taste” inthe article. Moreover, more than half the population of US adults including me seem to watch Marvel movies and look forward to every upcoming one. Therefore, it would be safe to say that the popular opinion about Marvel movies would be that they ARE indeed cinemas.