Glad that we agree on this.
He makes it clear that this is his opinion. He doesn't think that what the MCU does is cinema. And again this is an opinion a lot of people have expressed before.
Ethan Hawke pointed this out:
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https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/et...es-1201997725/)
"Now we have the problem that they tell us Logan is a great movie. Well, it’s a great superhero movie. It still involves people in tights with metal coming out of their hands. It’s not Bresson. It’s not Bergman. But they talk about it like it is. I went to see Logan cause everyone was like, “This is a great movie” and I was like, “Really? No, this is a fine superhero movie.” There’s a difference but big business doesn’t think there’s a difference. Big business wants you to think that this is a great film because they wanna make money off of it."
When Ethan Hawke says it he comes off as an indie actor who has too many airs. And he goes after Logan a movie that is very much an outlier and James Mangold, a guy who hates superhero movies and the MCU, probably has a right to go, "Dude I'm on your side." (Mangold has come and supported Scorsese's pov). Scorsese though goes after the MCU movies. The reason people get in a huff when Scorsese says it is that everyone knows that he comes from a real place. He has seen more movies than arguably anybody else. He has championed underappreciated directors. Guys like Michael Powell who was living in a trailer park when Scorsese championed his reputation and helped restore his films and get it on DVD (and even record commentary tracks for them with Powell on the laserdiscs). Scorsese has also funded up and coming directors and gone to bat for them, including Alfonzo Gomez-Rejon, who is a Hispanic film-maker who Scorsese mentored and whose recent film The Current War needed his intervention to get final cut. Scorsese also makes a lot of different kinds of movies, and he isn't really arthouse or indie film-maker.
If Scorsese says the MCU isn't cinema, then maybe people do need to think and wonder what that means, since it comes from a guy who probably knows what cinema is more than anyone else, having lived preached and practiced it multiple times. That's why these comments got traction and affected people personally because it means a lot when a man of such respect and esteem says it.
I mean look in comics when Alan Moore talks smack about stuff, people take it seriously and with respect. Because again no one can say Alan Moore doesn't know his stuff, or doesn't know what he's talking about.