Title : "I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them..."
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"I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them..."
"... as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being."From "Martin Scorsese says Marvel movies ‘aren’t cinema,’ they’re ‘theme parks.'"
Of course, literally, these things are cinema. Scorsese is making a witticism in the tradition of Truman Capote's "That’s not writing, that’s typing" (disrespecting Jack Kerouac's "On the Road").
Did Capote actually say that? Here's the Quote Investigator piece. Truman Capote used various versions of the witticism — against Kerouac and others:
The earliest evidence known to QI appeared in an interview with Capote published in the Spring-Summer 1957 issue of “The Paris Review”. The topic was writing style...It goes on. Capote was chatty in person, yet he looked down on other writers who were chatty through their fingertips.
But yes, there is such an animal as a nonstylist. Only they’re not writers. They’re typists. Sweaty typists blacking up pounds of Bond with formless, eyeless, earless messages....The next evidence located by QI appeared in January 1959....
Truman Capote agreed to appear on David Susskind’s “Open End” show, with Norman Mailer — who kept praising the Beat-Generation writers. Capote thought their product worthless. “It’s nothing,” he said. “That’s not writing; that’s just typewriting.”In February 1959 an article by Janet Winn in “The New Republic” noted that Susskind’s talk show panel consisted of Dorothy Parker, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote....
[Capote] commented on the difficulty he had reading the Beat novels. He had tried but he had been unable to finish any one of them. None of these people have anything interesting to say,” he observed, “and none of them can write, not even Mr. Kerouac.” What they do, he added, “isn’t writing at all—it’s typing.”
By the way, isn't it amazing to think there was a time when there were only 4 channels on your TV but you might find Dorothy Parker, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote having a conversation about what writing is?
And what's with capitalizing "Bond" in "Sweaty typists blacking up pounds of Bond with formless, eyeless, earless messages"? The "Bond" in question isn't somebody's name — James Bond?! — it's just paper. "Blacking up pounds of Bond" sounds truly absurd if you picture a person.
Anyway, Scorsese backed off from his "that’s not cinema," switching soon enough to "the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being." He's mostly just expressing a preference for a type of cinema, the stories about realistic human relationships. And yet are his mob characters that different from superhero characters? It's myth — a different realm from the place inhabited by us the movie-goers.
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