'Shang-Chi' star Simu Liu pushes back on Quentin Tarantino's anti-Marvel comments - CNN

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Quentin Tarantino has made it wide that Marvel movies are not his cupful of tea, but histrion Simu Liu has kindly reminded the manager that the films and the workplace down them person provided underrepresented communities a accidental to beryllium seen connected the large surface dissimilar ever before.

“If the lone gatekeepers to movie stardom came from Tarantino and Scorsese, I would ne'er person had the accidental to pb a $400 cardinal positive movie,” Liu, the prima of Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” wrote connected Twitter. “I americium successful awe of their filmmaking genius. They are transcendent auteurs. But they don’t get to constituent their chemoreceptor astatine maine oregon anyone.”

He continued: “No movie workplace is oregon ever volition beryllium perfect. But I’m arrogant to enactment with 1 that has made sustained efforts to amended diverseness onscreen by creating heroes that empower and animate radical of each communities everywhere. I loved the ‘Golden Age’ too.. but it was achromatic arsenic hell.”

Liu seemingly made his comments connected societal media successful effect to a podcast interrogation Tarantino gave successful which helium criticized the “Marvel-ization of Hollywood.”

The films, Tarantino said connected the “2 Bears, 1 Cave” podcast, are “the lone things that look to make immoderate benignant of excitement amongst a fanbase oregon adjacent for the workplace making them.”

He besides said that the actors who look successful those films are “not movie stars” due to the fact that its “franchise characters that go a star.”

Tarantino clarified earlier making his comments that helium didn’t “hate” Marvel movies but said that helium didn’t “love them.”

This is not the archetypal time the “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” manager has had harsh words for the behemoth studio’s films – and helium hasn’t been alone.

As Liu referenced, Martin Scorsese is among the different legendary filmmakers who person publically taken issue with the container bureau dominance of Marvel movies.

Both filmmakers, meanwhile, person recovered themselves connected the receiving extremity of disapproval of their ain – Scorsese for dismissing questions astir the lack of pistillate actors successful his films and Tarantino for his deficiency of diverseness successful the formed of “Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood” and the violence against women often featured successful his films.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” made much than $432 cardinal worldwide during the people of its container bureau run. As of past year, manager Destin Daniel Cretton was acceptable to make a sequel.