Francis Ford Coppola Criticizes Marvel Films, But Also Denis Villeneuve's Dune
Marvel Studios and Sony's Spider-Man: No Way Home and other highly beloved Marvel projects have experienced incredible critical and box office success. Still, renowned director Francis Ford Coppola has joined the bandwagon of criticism once again, describing Marvel projects as unoriginal prototypes, repeated over and over again.
Coppola gained notice three years ago for his comments about the MCU in defense of Martin Scorsese, who faced backlash for calling the films produced by the studio «not cinema,» which Coppola agreed with. However, Coppola felt Scorsese was generous with his comments, calling the Marvel Studios films despicable because of what they fail to give audiences.
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Coppola's feelings about the MCU have stayed relatively consistent as years have passed. While speaking with GQ about his timeless classic The Godfather and his upcoming project Megalopolis, which has been in the works for nearly 40 years, the iconic director talked about his displeasure with the modern film industry. «There used to be studio films,» expressed Coppola. «Now there are Marvel pictures. And what is a Marvel picture? A Marvel picture is one prototype movie that is made over and over and over and over and over again to look different.» Coppola continued his debatable point by bringing Denis Villeneuve's Dune and Cary Fukunaga's No Time to Die into the conversation, calling them good films made by talented people, but ones that felt similar to the prototype films churned out by the MCU.
«Even the talented people – you could take Dune, made by Denis Villeneuve, an extremely talented, gifted artist, and you could take No Time to Die, directed by Cary Fukunaga –
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