Tarantino Says Marvel actors aren’t movie stars: ‘Captain America Is the Star,’ Not Chris Evans

[Cloutius Maximus]

what's funny is we are actually slowly getting back to the days when DIRECTORS were stars and brands unto themselves.

People don't care about the actors but they will see the latest Jordan Peele movie. Or the latest Ari Aster horror flick. Or Greta Gerwig. Or the Safdie Brothers (Good Times, Uncut Gems). I'll check out a Coen Bros or Paul Thomas Anderson movie without a plot synopsis. Same people who say they are tired of the MCU will come back if the Russo brothers direct Secret Wars.

the sheer deluge of "content" helps directors with their own style stand out and find a loyal fanbase.

 

[LuuqMaan]

If the character is the star then why was it so much uproar about him becoming Cpt America

 

[Detroit Wave]

He's not wrong.

We thought RDJ was a big star, but Doolittle flopped so bad people were immediately wondering when he'd come back to the MCU.

The Sherlock movies were good tho

 

[Zero]

It's true.

These MCU actors appear in a MCU movie and it pulls in hundreds upon hundreds of millions at the box office, sometimes even billions. Then they appear in a non-MCU movie and no one checks for it.

I bet most people that love Chris Evans can't even name 5 Chris Evans movies if they aren't allowed to name MCU movies.

Shout out to Tom Holland, Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, etc

 

[null]

it's true for most actors with a few exceptions - RDJ, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman.

just like with pre-CBM's there were only a few real stars out there.

one problem they have to contend with is that the fictional character often has a more storied and interesting history than the actor themselves.

for many batman is a more interesting persona to discuss than the actor playing him.

once you get the ideal actor for a hero the histories blur and the actor inherits the interesting parts of the hero.

 

[Peter Popoff]

I think it's the producers faults more than the consumers. Superhero films are suppose to stop directors from making shiity films and step they shiit up.

Instead Hollywood spends its bigger budget invested in Superhero films, blackballing up and coming directors unless they're tied to it, relegating them to streaming platforms.

 

[Peter Popoff]

There's not a studio in existence that would pass up the chance for a fully fleshed-out story/universe that the public is already familiar with and loves to cult levels. He and a lot of people like him are hating having to compete. Nobody's interested in a Djangoverse. He's right in that it overshadows individual stories and not everything has to be a shared universe with sequels to squeeze out like clockwork...but this is Marvel. It's an idea factory, they literally called themselves the House of Ideas at one point.

Trying to belittle that won't make him and his dreck any more appealing.

If he pulled out another Django or kill Bill sequel/spinoff, it's making bank. Everything he's saying is .

 

[Roid Jones]

It's true.

These MCU actors appear in a MCU movie and it pulls in hundreds upon hundreds of millions at the box office, sometimes even billions. Then they appear in a non-MCU movie and no one checks for it.

I bet most people that love Chris Evans can't even name 5 Chris Evans movies if they aren't allowed to name MCU movies.

Exactly, faux stans make me laugh with that shyt, yeah you love RDJ but don't know about his run pre Iron Man or go and support his new non marvel work FOH

 

[Roid Jones]

He's not wrong.

We thought RDJ was a big star, but Doolittle flopped so bad people were immediately wondering when he'd come back to the MCU.

Yep consumer's have contributed to this, the worst ones are those that complain about Hollywood stale but only go and watch superhero films

 

[Roid Jones]

I agree. Outside of Chadwick I don't know the actors. I just know the characters

Props for the honesty, a lot of people front like hell

 

[DaddyFresh]

Whose Hugh Jackman without Wolverine? A nobody. Ryan Reynolds’s career was flatline status before Deadpool. Those characters made them stars.

 

[Roid Jones]

He is right....another example is Mark Hamill. Luke Skywalker is the star not him. Its hard to make movie stars out of comic book characters, especially nowadays.

It's the system that is broken, Hollywood no longer wants to create stars It's another way for the studios to hold all the power

 

[Eddie_1100]

I saw Django one time, it was ok. Has he made anything since?

Anyway he’ll make a movie, sprinkle the n-word in it, it’ll be provocative and get the people going…

And he can stop crying like a little retarded looking bytch.

 

[MajesticLion]

If he pulled out another Django or kill Bill sequel/spinoff, it's making bank. Everything he's saying is .

Maybe, maybe not. It's not just the money, it's the spotlight. There are egos involved here above all. Hence the "movie stars" pearl-clutching.

For now he's been eclipsed and can't stand the fact.

 

[Roid Jones]

Tarantino is right. I suggest anyone interested in Film History read the book Easy Rider, Raging Bull and/or watch the documentary on youtube. The industry has actually gone through a similar cycle before. In the 50s and 60s Westerns, Historical Epics and Musicals were dominating, Television arrived and suddenly people were not going to cinemas anymore by the late 60s the major studios were on the brink of collapse then a new generation emerged; Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg etc New voices, new stories and a whole new cycle emerged which some consider a golden age in the 70s, new stars were created because writers and directors were taking more risks. I think we are in a similar place today, the storytelling has become stale, everyone on the creative side needs to take more risks and dig deeper.

Heaven's Gate came through and changed the industry and not in a good way