That platforms kill cinema, that they broaden horizons, that they generate more jobs, that they alienate viewers and so we could continue to bring up a number of statements that have been made on social networks, interviews and other media.
About the progress they’ve made streaming platforms on cinema consumption (understanding the cinema as art and not the fact of going to a room), there are many resonant voices that criticize the consequences of the same in the industry. Even those that have not been released in commercial theaters are still excluded from some festivals.
In this regard, the russo brothersNetflix movie directors, “The Gray Man”, were blunt about it and had some statements that sparked some controversy. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporterargued that “we are in crisis because the whole world is at war with the other. It is sad for us, who grew up watching movies. But we must remember that it is an elitist thought to go to the roomsToday it is very expensive. This idea, to which some cling, that the rooms are a sacred space, is rubbish. It denies the possibility for all of us to be in the same group.”
Joe Russo He continued with his battery of arguments saying “The added value of digital distribution is the possibility of having 40 stories for the price of one. But having a culture war, whether there is value in it or not, makes no sense.”“. It is important to remember that the film that opens on July 22 and that will feature stars such as Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armashad a budget of no less than 200 million dollars, becoming The most expensive movie in Netflix history. In this regard, Anthony Russo explained that said budget is because it was filmed as if it were to be exhibited in theaters, that the technical level of it would not have differences.
As if that were not enough, they had time to answer about the look on superhero movies, which of course they defended (directed 4 Marvel Universe movies). They said that today’s cinema must evolve out of love towards “auteur” cinema as they defined it. “Author cinema is about 50 years old, it was thought of in the 70s, it was important for us but the world must change. The less it changes, the more chaos there will be”
Probably the latter has been the most controversial, considering that great masters of cinema, not only the North American, left an eternal mark on cinema for their particular way of making movies, long before the 70’s that they name, as can be Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock or Alan Resnais (among many), and that after that decade there have been different currents that successfully tried to renew the style and narrative, without necessarily being a superhero movie.
Closing the interview, they declared themselves open to changes, comfortable working with Netflix and admitted that they are even when they worked for Disney. The Russo brothers went in depth, it will be necessary to see if someone decides to pick up the glove and answer their sayings.
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The Russian brothers and a strong statement towards the idealists of cinema