Simu Liu criticises Quentin Tarantino after director laments the ‘Marvelisation of Hollywood’ - The Guardian

Director Quentin Tarantino has criticised Marvel films, saying the workplace does not nutrient movie stars and Marvel films “are the lone things that look to beryllium made”, starring to backlash from Marvel prima Simu Liu.

Speaking connected the 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast, Tarantino said the diminution successful movie stars was attributable to the “Marvelisation of Hollywood”.

“You person each these actors who person go celebrated playing these characters,” Tarantino said. “But they’re not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Or Thor is the star. I mean, I’m not the archetypal idiosyncratic to accidental that. I deliberation that’s been said a zillion times … but it’s like, you know, it’s these franchise characters that go a star.”

Tarantino said portion helium does not “hate” Marvel movies, helium dislikes their existent ubiquity.

“Look, I utilized to cod Marvel comics similar brainsick erstwhile I was a kid,” helium said. “There’s an facet that if these movies were coming retired erstwhile I was successful my twenties, I would wholly beryllium fucking blessed and wholly emotion them. I mean, they wouldn’t beryllium the lone movies being made. They would beryllium those movies amongst different movies. But, you know, I’m astir 60, truthful yeah. No, I’m not rather arsenic excited astir them.

“My lone axe to grind against them is they’re the lone things that look to beryllium made,” helium added. “And they’re the lone things that look to make immoderate benignant of excitement amongst a instrumentality basal oregon adjacent for the workplace making them. That’s what they’re excited about. And truthful it’s conscionable the information that they are the full practice of this epoch of movies close now. There’s not truly overmuch country for thing else. That’s my problem.”

Fellow manager Martin Scorsese has besides been a vocal professional of Marvel, calling them “theme parks” and “not cinema”, which has prompted responses from galore actors and directors moving for the studio, among them Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who brushed disconnected Scorsese’s remarks, saying: “I deliberation that’s not true. I deliberation it’s unfortunate.”

On Wednesday, Deadpool creator Robert Liefeld called Tarantino’s comments “the hottest of blistery takes”, portion Liu, the prima of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, rejected Tarantino’s appraisal and praised Marvel’s efforts to amended diverseness connected screen.

“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. 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,” helium tweeted.

“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.”

Earlier this month, Tarantino said helium would ne'er nonstop a Marvel movie due to the fact that “you person to beryllium a hired manus to bash those things. I’m not a hired hand. I’m not looking for a job.”