Steven Soderbergh Thinks Superhero Movies Lack Sex Scenes
Director Steven Soderbergh thinks that superhero movies lack sex scenes. Soderbergh is the prolific director of the Oceans Eleven franchise, as well as films like Out of Sight, Traffic, Erin Brockovich, and Magic Mike. The director's first film was the aptly-titled Sex, Lies, and Videotape, starring Andie McDowell and James Spader, which launched Soderbergh into a distinguished career as a filmmaker. His 2011 film Contagion has recently seen a surge in popularity as it has been frequently compared to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Superhero films, by and large, do not contain gratuitous sex scenes, but have always leaned into romantic relationships and occasionally do have sex scenes, depending on the property involved. Recently, Marvel had its first-ever feature film sex scene in The Eternals, while other properties have had much more expressive scenes. Some more gratuitous sex scenes have been featured with Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin's scenes in Deadpool, Patrick Wilson and Malin Akerman in Watchmen, and a host of others on a variety of superhero shows like the Marvel/Netflix shows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage, as well as Amazon Prime's The Boys and DC'sDoom Patrol. While the mainstream Marvel and DC feature films may avoid sex scenes, there are clearly a good amount of outliers that embrace it.
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While talking to The Daily Beast, Soderbergh said that he has trouble imagining the superhero world without sex, which is a hindrance to his style of storytelling as it conflicts with how humans behave. The director says that the «fantasy-spectacle» universe typically «doesn't involve a lot of f*cking» and doesn't typically give insight into who
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