In a recent,
interview with the Huffington Post, director Joss Whedon reflected on the state
of the superhero movies genre and made some remarks about Christopher Nolan's
The Dark Knight.
"People
have made it very clear that they are fed up with movies where entire cities
are destroyed, and then we celebrate," Whedon said, knowing he used the same trick at the end of The Avengers.
The director then talked about Chris Nolan's The Dark
Knight, and compared it to Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.
"Now, I watched 'The Dark Knight' and I
thought of that as riffing on the genre," he said. "That was a superhero
movie as 'The Godfather.' And I was like, 'But I just still want to see a
superhero movie!' We had just gotten the technology to make it awesome, and I
wasn't ready to be post-modern about it yet."
Finally, Whedon talked about what is for him important in Avengers: Age
of Ultron, and that seems to be the Humanity in the characters.
"People come in with a certain amount of emotional baggage, so, whether
we're in our larvae stage or our decadent stage, I can't really say, but I try
to make my superhero movies as if there's either never been one or there's only
ever been them. I work with the idea that it's just a natural way for people to
be, so that you still make a movie about people."
Opening on May 1st, 2015, Avengers:
Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Scarlett
Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, James Spader, Thomas Kretschmann, Aaron
Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Cobie Smulders, Paul Bettany, Samuel L.
Jackson, and Josh Brolin (rumored to play Thanos).
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