Actress Jessica Lange says comics movies have sacrificed art for the sake of profiteering
The Los Angeles Times reports veteran actress Jessica Lange's added her voice to the dissenters of comics-based movies, and has quite an interesting way of taking issue with them:
Jessica Lange has no interest in seeing “90%” of the films being made today.When movies like Scorsese's and Lange's are pushed out of the major theaters for the sake of these special effects-laden blockbusters, and today's generations don't go to the arthouse theaters where they're more likely to be screened now, it's no wonder they won't have an inkling of an idea what merit is. Though again, let's recall the comics movies are beginning to falter, thankfully. Even so, of course it's a shame it had to come down to this, and whereever live action comics movies are headed now, serious art has taken a toll because of all this watered down emphasis on FX-laden blockbusters that're now amounting to nothing but stock market pandering.
In an interview published Thursday in the Telegraph, the Oscar winner said she wants to quit acting because the industry is more focused on profit than artistic quality. “I’m not interested in these big comic book franchise films. I think that they’ve sacrificed this art that we’ve been involved in … for the sake of profit.”
Lange, 74, told the newspaper that she’s planning to retire in the near future. “Creativity is secondary now to corporate profits,” she said. “The emphasis becomes not on the art or the artist or the storytelling. It becomes about satisfying your stockholders. It diminishes the artist and the art of filmmaking.”
The actor, who’s collected her fair share of Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes over the course of her four-decade career, said she’s mourning the loss of “wonderful films by really great filmmakers, wonderful stories, great characters.”
The “American Horror Story” star echoes recent comments made by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who doubled down on disavowing comic book movies. In a GQ profile last month, the “Killers of the Flower Moon” director said comic book films were a danger to our culture “because there are going to be generations now that think ... that’s what movies are.”
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