INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Months after Martin Scorsese criticized Marvel's superhero movies, Joker director Todd Philips has opened up about what he thinks of the
criticism.Scorsese recently found himself in trouble when he went on to say that superhero movies were "not cinema".Todd Phillips, the
director of Joaquin Phoenix starrer Joker, agrees to what Scorcese said
According to AceShowbiz, the director said he accepts Scorsese was making a fair point
The director, however, fell short of explaining whether he fully agrees to what Scorsese said.He was speaking at The Hollywood Reporter's
directors roundtable chat
"Marty got a lot of heat for that (what he said), but I understand it fully
We were struggling to get 'Joker' made, which sounds funny because it exists in the superhero world, but it's really not one of those
movies.We spent a year at Warner Bros., and I saw emails back and forth, literally, where they said, 'Does he realise we sell Joker pyjamas
at Target?' I go, 'Didn't movies come first and pyjamas come second? Are the pyjamas dictating the movies?' Theme park rides
Whatever it is that you are selling off the back of movies, you can't make your decisions based on that," he said
Martin Scorsese, who was also present on the occasion said: "I remember when Disneyland was built and one of the aspirations of the studios
was to become as important to American culture as Disneyland
And the first studio to really do that was Universal with the (studio) tour
And then you add the blockbuster on top of that - and why not? People go to the movie
That sort of thing.""So the sense of a theme park has always been there
We used to love to go to amusement parks
But now in an amusement park, you have the film."TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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