13
Sep
There is much that can be said about the impact of the Marvel Studios method on Hollywood. You hear it all the time: complaints about the way it has conditioned audiences to expect crisp, familiar formula; lamentations that moviegoers now will only pay en masse to see a movie that ends with a falling CGI sky fortress—plus an advertisement for the next installment during the end credits. It’s these homogenizing elements which likely contributed to auteurs of previous generations, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, to sniff at whether such products can be considered cinema. Yet love or…