Another iconic director has spoken out against Marvel superhero films.
Following remarks from Martin Scorsese referring to the Marvel Comics films as "theme parks" and "not cinema", The Godfather director
Now British director Ken Loach is the latest to add his voice to the criticism of the films.
Loach said to Sky News of Marvel movies: "They're made as commodities like hamburgers, and it's not about communicating and it's not about sharing our imagination.
"It's about making a commodity which will make a profit for a big corporation - they're a cynical exercise.
"They're market exercise and it has nothing to do with the art of cinema. William Blake said 'when money is discussed - art is impossible'."
The director said that his latest film - social realist drama Sorry We Missed You, which tackles zero-hour contracts in modern Britain - is closer to what he considers the purpose of cinema.
He added: "I think reflecting the world we know can make beautiful cinema because it can celebrate who we are."
Sorry We Missed You follows a family struggling with no holiday or sick pay and trying to bring up young children in struggling work conditions with no job security.
Loach says the film tackles "the world outside where we put on a smiley face and the world inside our personal relationships where you're exhausted, you drop the smiles and that's when the tensions, the stress, the anger plays out".
Meanwhile, Oscar-winning actress and Thor franchise star Natalie Portman has come out in defence of Marvel superhero movies, telling The Hollywood Reporter : "I think there's room for all types of cinema."
She added: "There's not one way to make art."
Sorry We Missed You is released in UK cinemas on November 1, 2019.
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