Simu Liu Takes Shots At ‘Gatekeepers’ Martin Scorsese & Quentin Tarantino Over Comments About Marvel

Simu Liu isn’t standing for any Marvel criticism.

No movie studio is or ever will be perfect. But I'm proud to work with one that has made sustained efforts to improve diversity onscreen by creating heroes that empower and inspire people of all communities everywhere.Liu also wrote of Marvel, “I’m proud to work with one [studio] that has made sustained efforts to improve diversity onscreen by creating heroes that empower and inspire people of all communities everywhere.

While explaining that he doesn’t hate the Marvel films, Tarantino said, “My only axe to grind against them is they’re the only things that seem to be made. And they’re the only things that seem to generate any kind of excitement amongst a fan base or even for the studio making them. That’s what they’re excited about. And so it’s just the fact that they are the entire representation of this era of movies right now. There’s not really much room for anything else. That’s my problem.

In 2019, after comparing Marvel films to theme park rides and stating they are not cinema, the “Taxi Driver” director penned an op-ed for the“Many of the elements that define cinema as I know it are there in Marvel pictures. What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk,” he wrote. “The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are designed as variations on a finite number of themes.

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