However, recently, both Scorsese and Coppola have come out to clarify their comments. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Scorsese had this to say: Francis Ford Coppola, who helmed what many consider to be the greatest film of all time The Godfather, dove even deeper in an interview with Deadline: Coppola also mentioned that he fully believes that Martin Scorsese is well aware of the cinematic talent and expression that are present in the Marvel movies. In some ways I think the cinema is like food; certainly you can add things to make it tempting, tasty and enjoyable but it must also be nutritious to qualify as real food. I think Coppola hit the nail on the head here. I love the MCU, but my issue with a lot of the MCU films is that they don’t take chances. Apart from the likes of The Winter Soldier, Civil War, Black Panther and a couple of others, the MCU films do feel like genuinely fun films that are churned out in a factory. The best kind films are the ones that take big risks and push the envelope. Films like Joker and Logan come to mind. Well you know because of the lack of risk in the production. Marty Scorsese says that the Marvel picture is not cinema, he’s right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration. Arguably, I don’t know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again, which is the Marvel movies. A thing that has no risk to it, I’ve said before, making a film without risk is like making a baby without sex. Part of it is risk, and that’s what make it so interesting, that’s why we learn so much when it’s made.
