I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish, to be able to put together a phrase like ‘cultural genocide,’ just speaks to how bright he is.
Robert Downey, Jr. on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s comments that superhero movies amount to “cultural genocide.” (via ibaaad)
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when are yall gonna also write walls of text talking about how shitty this guy is
*sigh* of course he fuckin’ did.
and of course everybody’s going to hear “cultural genocide” because that’s the phrase that RDJ highlighted, and González Iñárritu’s actual comments get lost. (and i think the actual comments are incredibly fucking important, since these films occupy such a huge cultural space right now & they’ve had such enormous impact on the film industry & our media landscape.)
González Iñárritu, in his Deadline interview:
DEADLINE: How does this lampooning of Hollywood’s fixation with superheroes affect your chance of ever getting a crack at one?
GONZALEZ INARRITU: I would be terrible. I think there’s nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there’s a disease in not growing up. The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. When you put $100 million and you get $800 million or $1 billion, it is very hard to convince people. You tell them, you will put in $20 million and you will get $80 million. Now, that is a fucking amazing business, but they say, “$80 million? I want $800 million.” Basically, the room to exhibit good nice films is over. These are taking the place of all those things.
DEADLINE: Is there anything you enjoy about these superhero films? GONZALEZ INARRITU: I sometimes enjoy them because they are basic and simple and go well with popcorn. The problem is that sometimes they purport to be profound, based on some Greek mythological kind of thing. And they are honestly very right wing. I always see them as killing people because they do not believe in what you believe, or they are not being who you want them to be. I hate that, and don’t respond to those characters. They have been poison, this cultural genocide, because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and shit that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human.
[…] Superheroes…just the word hero bothers me. What the fuck does that mean? It’s a false, misleading conception, the superhero. Then, the way they apply violence to it, it’s absolutely right wing. If you observe the mentality of most of those films, it’s really about people who are rich, who have power, who will do the good, who will kill the bad. Philosophically, I just don’t like them.
that’s an interesting & important perspective, even if you don’t agree with it. and it would be great if folks could engage with his actual words….but instead RDJ mocks him because Spanish is his first language and highlights “cultural genocide” without any context.
this is why we can’t have nice things.
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