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Martin Scorsesewasn’t one of the many people who helpedJokergross over $1 billionat the box office.
In an interview withThe New York Timespublished on Tuesday, the Academy Award-winning director, 77, said that he didn’t feel the need to see the movie in full.
“I saw clips of it,” he told the outlet. “I know it. So it’s like, why do I need to? I get it. It’s fine.”
As the outlet noted, Scorsese had previously declined an opportunity to be involved with the film, although Emma Tillinger Koskoff, who is the president of his production company, did help produce the comic book movie alongside the film’s writer and director Todd Phillips, as well as actorBradley Cooper.
Joaquin Phoenix inJoker(2019).Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Entertainment
In a November interview with theBBC, Scorsese previously revealed that he had chosen not to be involved with the project after ultimately deciding “it’s just not for me.”
“I know the film very well,” he said. “I thought about it a lot over the last four years and I decided I did not have the time for it. It was personal reasons why I didn’t get involved.”
The director went on to speak about the arc of the film, which followsJoaquin Phoenix‘s Arthur Fleck as he descends into madness and becomes the Joker.
“For me, ultimately, I don’t know if I make the next step into this character developing into a comic book character,” Scorsese explained. “He develops into an abstraction. It doesn’t mean it’s bad art, it’s just not for me…The superhero films, as I’ve said, are another art form. They are not easy to make. There’s a lot of very talented people doing good work and a lot of young people really, really enjoy them.”
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“Many of the elements that define cinema as I know it are there in Marvel pictures,” he wrote of what excites him about movies. “What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk. The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are designed as variations on a finite number of themes.”
He continued, “They are sequels in name but they are remakes in spirit, and everything in them is officially sanctioned because it can’t really be any other way. That’s the nature of modern film franchises: market-researched, audience-tested, vetted, modified, revetted and remodified until they’re ready for consumption.”
Scorsese’sThe Irishmanis competing againstJokerfor the best picture award at the Golden Globes, which air Sunday on NBC.
source: people.com
