If the fights between celebrities and important people amuses you, you are about to witness a fight from a distance, of -until now- three acts. Very similar to a fight between superhero and villain, blow goes, blow comes and whoever hits the hardest stays. With a small difference, that in real life -or at least in Hollywood- sometimes the fists arrive with a delay, they take time to hit, or they simply do not kill you, nor do they make you stronger.
The exchange has two protagonists: Robert Downey Jr.known for his role as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrituthe renowned Mexican director awarded several times for films such as Birdman, Babel, The Revenant, etc.
Alejandro González Iñárritu vs. Robert Downey Jr.
When the director was promoting Birdman in 2014, Deadline did an interview with him, in which Inarritu issued a controversial opinion. When asked if he enjoyed superhero movies, the director said that he sometimes enjoyed them because “they’re basic, simple and go well with popcorn.” However, he had no problem delving deeper into the problem of these films.
“They have quite a right-wing approach. I always see them killing people because they don’t believe what they want you to believe, or because they aren’t what they want you to be. I hate that, and I don’t respond to those characters,” the director said. And as if insulting the source of entertainment and fun for children and adults were not enough, Inarritu He said: “They have been poison, this cultural genocide, because the audience is so overexposed to the plot and the explosions, and all that shit, that it doesn’t convey anything about the experience of being human”.
The Oscar-winning director is not a big fan of superhero movies
Because of this unkind and rather blunt comment, during a interview to promote “Avengers: Age of Ultron” the interviewer told Robert Downey Jr. about the opinion he had expressed Gonzalez Inarritu. With a surprised face at what the director said, the actor who plays Tony Stark in the MCU replied to the interviewer: “Look, I respect him a lot, and I think that for a man whose mother tongue is Spanish, who can put together the expression “cultural genocide” in English, talks about how smart it is”. Although the end of the answer seems like a compliment to the Mexican director, the ironic tone and expression, as well as the awkward posture in the actor’s chair, show a passive-aggressive intention.
Now, we come to the third act of this war of sharp opinions. with his new movie “Bard”which premiered last week at the Venice Film Festival, Iñárritu returned to the more than five-year-old altercation, saying he is still bothered by what Downey Jr. said of him. “It was like ‘oh! You from the country of bananas’, when if I were from Denmark or Sweden, the comment would have been taken as philosophical. But when you are Mexican and you say some things, you are pretentious”, expressed the director.
Robert Downey Jr. played Tony Stark in the MCU. ????
During the original interview, Iñárritu said that philosophically he did not like superheroes, even questioning the very word of Super Hero: “What the hell does it mean? It is a false and misleading concept, the super hero. Then the way they add violence to it, he’s absolutely right wing. If you look at the mentality of most of these films, they are really about rich people with power, that they are going to do the right thing, kill the bad guys, “said the director, adding that there was nothing wrong with being obsessed with superheroes at seven years old. , but that there is a disease in not growing up and overcoming them.
Now we have to wait to see if Hombre de Hierro goes out for another hit, meanwhile, the new film by Inarritu“Bardo”, will be available on Netflix from December 16.
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