Francis Ford Coppola has defended Martin Scorsese’s criticism of Marvel superhero movies, calling them “despicable”.
In early October, Scorsese said that he had “tried” to watch movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that he had decided they are “not cinema”.
“When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he’s right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration,” he said.
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn expressed sadness over Scorsese’s stance, tweeting: “Martin Scorsese is one of my five favourite living filmmakers.