Jeremy Allen White: ‘I Am Confused at How the Pinnacle of an Actor’s Career Has Ended Up’ at Superhero Movies
Jeremy Allen White: ‘I Am Confused at How the Pinnacle of an Actor’s Career Has Ended Up’ at Superhero Movies
“They get really good filmmakers to do those movies and obviously they get really good actors,” “The Bear” star said, but he doesn’t regret how he played a meeting for ̶…
Because Hollywood ran out of ideas 20 years ago, and comic books are a goldmine of cool stories that they can rehash into profitable action movies.
So those are the big money movies, where actors go to work for big money.
Hollywood could build an entire city out of unused scripts. The problem is not a lack of ideas, it's a lack of tolerance for risk. If you could invest $100 of your own money in a movie, where would you put it? Sequels, action flicks, comic book movies, they have a built-in audience. New stories have to compete with known IPs, and awards don't mean financial success.
There are plenty of ideas. The problem is the people running the studios have no interest in the art of filmmaking.
Like every other American economic sector, Hollywood has been taken over by private shareholder proxies demanding studios maximize short term profit formulas literally at the expense of the point of the industry. This means making established IPs over bold, original, innovative aka "risky" scripts.
Thank late stage capitalism for the decline of movies, games, medicine, education, etc. Thank sanctioned insatiable greed as a virtue in the US.
Comics are full of cool stories, but Marvel just rehashes the same formula for each movie now.
I was hoping for a revamp post Endgame, but for the most part it’s essentially just the same generic movie each time.
I'm pretty sure they stopped being "cool stories" about 5 years ago, now they're just CGI garbage
Some people will think that the pinnacle of their career is when they make the most money.
In the arts, that's often when they felt most creatively fulfilled.
There's been some seriously good actors in the MCU, but do you really think Angela Bassett, Natalie Portman or Christian Bale view their MCU roles as the height of their career?
Those roles were paychecks. That's ok, but don't go around pretending they were something else.Is this the normal thing? 80s was Rambo like, martial arts non-stop action. 90s was more family like movies with comedy. 70s was cowboys and so on.
Just want to say, please American movie makers stop fuckin with anime. You guys suck at making them.
Look at what you did to my beautiful DBZ and Avatar the last air bender.
You guys suck at making them.
SOOO bad... they're fucking clueless.
“I had a meeting for a kind of Marvel-y movie, and I had an attitude,” White said. “I think I played it all wrong.” He said he told the Marvel executives, “‘Tell me about why should I do your movie,'” which did not come off well. “They were like, ‘Fuck you,'” White recalled, “and I was like, ‘Right on.'”
having self respect vs MCU execs is a legit super power though
Oh, so he is projecting his one bad experience onto everyone else because he tried to be sold on a franchise instead of trying to join it.
Totally agree. Superhero movies are bottom-of-the-barrel. They’re a perfect example of how popular ≠ good. And because of them, we have very few quality films being released.
Absolutely. So much superhero & cgi garbage. I think about how many amazing scripts and screenplay are just overlooked. Then they wanna start having ai write
What a lame post. Linking to an article that talks about a GQ article. Did you read the source? If you did you’d find that he said that 1YEAR AGO. This is so close to misinformation. I suggest we all do more to read sources and scrutinize posts.
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“ White expressed scepticism towards superhero flicks. “I am confused at how the pinnacle of an actor’s career has ended up in that place,” he said last year, doing his best Martin Scorsese impression. That stance has softened slightly over the last 12 months. “They get really good filmmakers to do those movies and obviously they get really good actors to do those movies,” White says now, diplomatically. ”Permanently Deleted
Money, that's why.
Because they are consistently popular fun movies and the best paid. Imagine that, popular media being the most successful.
I am confused as to how the same actors end up playing multiple superheroes.
Back in the 1970s, you could make a movie for the cost of a large house. A studio could finance a lot of movies and take risks. Now $100 million for a movie is the norm. You want to take as few risks as possible. That means using popular actors over and over.