Samuel L. Jackson came out to challenge director Quentin Tarantino’s comments that the actors in Marvel superhero films weren’t actually “movie stars,” that the real stars were the characters.
“I think it takes an actor to be able to play those particular characters,” Samuel L. Jackson said on the show. The sight, questioning the interpretation of the concept of “star” that Quentin Tarantino, the great director of Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Jackson was closely associated with Tarantino’s career: he was a part of many of his films such as Pulp Fiction Jackie Brown Y Django Unchained.
The positions of Jackson and Tarantino
When asked, and in a polemical spirit, the actor argued his position by recalling the protagonist of Black Panther: “You can’t say the actors like it Chadwick Bosemann They are not movie stars. Not really. From my point of view, this is irrefutable.”
Recently the director, with his particular sarcasm, had repented the absence of the stars of the “big screen today” and believed that this had an explanation and was a result of the growth that the Marvel superhero universe was having in the film industry.
“As a result of Hollywood wonder we have all these actors who become famous playing these characters (…) but they are not movie stars, the Captain America or Thor they are the stars,” said the director of kill Bill.
However, Tarantino said he doesn’t particularly “love” or “hate” the Marvel universe and has pointed his guns in another direction, expressing his dissatisfaction with a Hollywood industry that seems to be only interested in developing a type of films which, in addition to not having author registration, are made up of sequels, prequels and other issues algorithmic reasoning.
Person or character?
In his statements, the director had underlined that the public who went to see this type of film did so for the characters, “therefore those who play them aren’t really film actors”.
According to the specialized magazine framessuperhero movies have redefined the commercial cinema concept so far into the 21st century and, year after year, they become the highest grossing and most popular on the bill. “Maybe that’s why Tarantino thinks we’re here the worst period of cinemaalong with the 50s and 70s, and made those statements” criticizing the star system present-day Hollywood.
“No, I’m not the first person to say this. I think it’s been said a million times…but it’s like these were franchise characters the ones who become stars, not the actors,” Tarantino added.
Although there is a good relationship between the two, Jackson – without naming the director – did not hesitate to give his point of view on Marvel cinema.
Samuel L. Jackson plays Nick Fury in Marvel movies like Hombre de Hierro (2008) or The Avengers (2012) and will soon premiere the Disney+ series, Secret invasion.
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