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Prospective female "Black Widow" director laments that Marvel movies suck.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/filmmaker-lucrecia-martel-says-marvel-didnt-want-her-to-1831054708According to The Daily Pioneer, Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel—who’s known for acclaimed art-house films like Zama, The Holy Girl, and The Headless Woman—was speaking at the Mumbai Film Festival back in October and detailed a meeting she had with Marvel, where they discussed the possibility of her directing the upcoming film starring Scarlett Johansson.
“What they told me in the meeting was ‘We need a female director because we need someone who is mostly concerned with the development of Scarlett Johansson’s character,’” Martel said. “They also told me ‘Don’t worry about the action scenes, we will take care of that.’ I was thinking, ‘Well I would love to meet Scarlett Johansson but also I would love to make the action sequences.’”
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“Companies are interested in female filmmakers but they still think action scenes are for male directors,” Martel said. “The first thing I asked them was maybe if they could change the special effects because there’s so many laser lights...I find them horrible. Also the soundtrack of Marvel films is quite horrendous. Maybe we disagree on this but it’s really hard to watch a Marvel film. It’s painful to the ears to watch Marvel films.”
“What they told me in the meeting was ‘We need a female director because we need someone who is mostly concerned with the development of Scarlett Johansson’s character,’” Martel said. “They also told me ‘Don’t worry about the action scenes, we will take care of that.’ I was thinking, ‘Well I would love to meet Scarlett Johansson but also I would love to make the action sequences.’”
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“Companies are interested in female filmmakers but they still think action scenes are for male directors,” Martel said. “The first thing I asked them was maybe if they could change the special effects because there’s so many laser lights...I find them horrible. Also the soundtrack of Marvel films is quite horrendous. Maybe we disagree on this but it’s really hard to watch a Marvel film. It’s painful to the ears to watch Marvel films.”
- art-house director with no experience in action
- doesn't understand that the first unit shoots character-scenes and the second unit shoots action-scenes
- thinks that Marvel-movies are painful to watch
- would abandon the aesthetic style developed over the course of 20 movies and make a movie with a radically different approach to special-effects
- would abandon the musical style developed over the course of 20 movies and make a movie with a radically different approach to soundtrack
As one of the commenters points out: Marvel-movies have 20 second unit and assistant directors.
But, sure... If she doesn't get the job, it's because of sexism because Marvel doesn't want a woman to make action-scenes.
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