Got a problem with superhero movies? The head of Marvel pinpoints the cause and defends the MCU

In recent years, the criticism of superhero cinema, after all, the most profitable genre of the Tenth Muse, has only grown stronger. At one time, it was loud about the statements of such giants of the big screen as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron if Denis Villeneuvewho likened the MCU to “theme parks” or argued that hero movies “shouldn’t be treated as full-fledged cinema.” Now the president of Marvel Studios has addressed this criticism, Kevin Feige.

On the company’s official podcast for the work Black Panther: Wakanda in my heart the filmmaker stated:

There used to be people who had huge problems with a 4-color, printed, 2D comic story. They just couldn’t get over it. I dare say it’s the same today. There are people who can’t stand the fact that a movie is a genre, that it’s set in outer space, or that it has characters that breathe underwater. And then they say, “No, it’s not for me at all.”

The head of Marvel was supported by the producer Nate Moore, who added that it is this approach that causes critics of superhero cinema to see them as “theme parks”, thus referring directly to Scorsese’s words from 2019. Moore later said:

Comic book storytelling, which has been marginalized over the years for all sorts of reasons, has as much justification as any other if you take it seriously and see the potential to explore many elements of the story. Big, fantastic ideas, amazing adventures, one-of-a-kind characters, themes that resonate in the modern world.