A few days ago I reflected —and invited you to reflect— on the permissiveness that many superhero movie fans have towards this type of production, emphasizing that, regardless of the genre, if something raises the quality of a feature film, that is a good treatment of characters that channels and drives the emotion so that it floods the stalls.
Characters, characters and more characters
But today we are going to let the people who know speak for their two cents about the importance of leading men who are up to the task. More specifically to a James Cameron who, while waiting for the premiere of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’, has decided to launch a couple of darts aimed at Marvel and DCand the way its heroes behave on the big screen.
“When I see these huge, spectacular movies—I’m looking at you, Marvel and DC—it doesn’t matter how old the characters are, they all act like they’re in high school. They have relationships, but they don’t really.”
Cameron did not stop there, taking advantage of a reflection on how having children affects life and risk taking to write your review.
“They’ve never hung up their spurs for their children. The things that ground us and give us power and love and purpose? Those characters don’t experience them, and I think that’s the way to make movies.”
Like everything in this life, in what Cameron describes, there are exceptions —some, in fact, quite remarkable—; but we are not going to deny that this problem supposes one of the biggest burdens for productions that, with their enormous technical and logistical muscle, could aspire to be much more than sterile 120-minute entertainment -or more-.
We can judge what the filmmaker has done with the characters of ‘Avatar: The sense of water’ next December 16 of this same 2022.
Via | New York Times