By Justin Enriquez for Dailymail.com 7:45 pm Oct 30, 2023, updated 8:21 pm Oct 30, 2023
“Avengers: Endgame” director Joe Russo has been criticized for overshadowing Martin Scorsese over the box office returns of “Killers Of The Flower Moon.”
The drama began when the 52-year-old filmmaker took to Instagram to make fun of the legendary 80-year-old Goodfellas director, who has been critical of Marvel films in the past.
After Scorcese’s daughter Francesca posted a TikTok video sketch in which the legendary filmmaker pretended to direct his dog, Russo took to his social media to share a video with his dog, which he said he called “Box Office “called.
He pointed to the film icon in the caption of the short clip on Instagram, writing: “It seems we have the same muse… @martinscorsese_”
Apparently this was a dig at Scorsese’s criticism of Marvel films, including Russo’s “Avengers: Endgame,” which at the time was the highest-grossing film of all time with $2.8 billion.
Taking a stand: “Avengers: Endgame” director Joe Russo (left) was criticized for shaming Martin Scorsese over the box office numbers of “Killers Of The Flower Moon.” Icon: Martin Scorsese can be seen in New Jersey this weekend. Film fanatics on
This came as Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon grossed just $9 million over the weekend, good for third place at the US box office.
It grossed $84.68 million worldwide, including $40.68 million domestically.
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Another compared Russo and Scorsese to the iconic “I Feel Bad For You / I Don’t Think About You At All” meme from “Mad Men” starring Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) and Michael Ginsberg (played by Ben Feldman). .
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Scorsese has made a habit of denigrating the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), as the film icon criticized the superhero genre of films in a magazine profile back in September.
Speaking to GQ ahead of the release of his latest film, the 80-year-old award-winning director discussed his life, career and how comic book films have changed the industry.
“The danger is what it does to our culture, because there will be generations that think that movies are just that – that’s what movies are,” Scorsese said.
The drama began when the 52-year-old filmmaker took to Instagram to mock the legendary 80-year-old Goodfellas director, who has been critical of Marvel films in the past, after Scorcese’s daughter Francesca posted a TikTok video sketch of the legendary filmmaker as him leading his dog, Russo took to his social media to share a video with his dog, which he said he named “Box Office.” He tapped the film icon in the caption of the short clip on Instagram and wrote, “It looks like we did the same muse… @martinscorsese_’ Steady: This happened when Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon grossed just $9 million over the weekend, good for third place at the US box office
“That means we have to defend ourselves more strongly.” And it has to start from the grassroots. It has to come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean?
This isn’t the first time Scorsese has attacked Marvel. In 2019 he said that the comic book films were not cinemas, but rather theme parks.
“I do think that the content being produced is not really cinema,” Scorsese said. “It’s almost like an AI making a movie.” And that doesn’t mean there aren’t incredible directors and special effects people making beautiful works of art.”
‘But what does it mean? What do these films do, what do they bring to you? Except for some kind of completion of something and then eliminating it from your mind, your whole body, you know? So what does it give you?’
Scorsese said the film industry is no longer the same as it was when he began his career nearly seven decades ago.
He said studios are “no longer interested in supporting individual voices expressing their personal feelings or their personal thoughts and personal ideas and feelings with a big budget.” And what’s happened now is that they have put them in the box of what they call indies.”
He is an advocate for film preservation and attended a meeting this summer with other famous directors and Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav following recent layoffs at Turner Classic Movies.
Last October, Scorsese criticized the film industry’s “repulsive” obsession with ratings for “degrading” cinema.
Another compared Russo and Scorsese to the iconic “I Feel Bad For You / I Don’t Think About You At All” meme from “Mad Men” starring Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) and Michael Ginsberg (played by Ben Feldman). . Ouch: Several X users bashed Joe Russo
He said since the 1980s, the industry has become more interested in ratings and how much money films make.
In his GQ interview, he said he was outraged when executives tried to get him to keep one of the two leads of “The Departed” alive so they could turn it into a franchise.
“What they wanted was a franchise.” It wasn’t about the moral question of whether a person lives or dies. And then the studio people left the studio and were very sad because they just didn’t want the film. They wanted the franchise. That means: I can’t work here anymore.’
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He said cinemas weren’t going away, but they needed to do more to entice people to go to the cinema.
“I think there will always be theater because people want to experience this thing together,” Scorsese said.
“But at the same time, theaters need to evolve to make them places where people want to go and enjoy themselves or see something that moves them.”
This summer, Scorsese’s Goodfellas was named the best gangster film of all time, according to Ranker.