I'm sorry but when a filmmaker sets out to make a film, then it gets judged in all aspects. If the film seems to be a reflection of the director's personal feelings and vendetta, then the critics and viewers alike have the right to call it out. When you can call out Agnihotri for imposing his personal ideals in his movies, then why does Vanga get off free? By that means, Agnihotri should also be allowed to make his movies with NO criticism whatsoever. Judge his movies only on technicalities. We are paying to watch their movies, aren't we? No director, I repeat, no director, even if they are a big hotshot is immune to criticism. Nolan is regularly roasted by critics for his movies lacking emotional depth. See how they handle it. There is a stark difference. And Vanga would have to take birth again to able to replicate 1/10th of their movies.
https://screenrant.com/christopher-nolan-emotionless-films-criticisms-response/
"I try not to be obvious about it. That gives people a little more freedom to interpret the movies their way, bring what they want to it. I've had people write about my films as being emotionless, yet I have screened those same movies and people have been in floods of tears at the end. It's an impossible contradiction for a filmmaker to resolve. In truth, it's one of the things that is really exciting about filmmaking though. I seem to be making films that serve as Rorschach tests."
This is from the article itself:
"As usual, Nolan is handling the criticism of his films with class, opting not to go on the attack of the critics of who are complaining about his films, but rather, concentrating on those who matter most to him: the people in the seats of the theater."
Scorsese regularly faces the same kind of criticism that was heaped on Vanga to a certain extent. His films do not have deliberate misogynistic bull, alpha toxicity but he was panned by one section of the audience for WOTF for showing the debauchery of Jordan Belfort. And this is all he said:
“In the case of The Wolf of Wall Street, for example, I only learned the other day from an interviewer who said, ‘You’re not aware of the war [over] Wolf of Wall Street?,” Scorsese said. “So I said, ‘What are you talking about.’ They said, ‘Well, there was a big screening at Paramount of the picture, for the critics in New York.’ Apparently, I was told this, there were two camps: One camp that loved the picture and the other camp that was furious, saying I didn’t take a moral stand on Jordan Belfort. And one of the critics from the other group that liked the picture said, ‘Do you really need Martin Scorsese to tell you that that’s wrong?’ You really need him to tell you that’s wrong? He knows it’s wrong.”
Chalamet asked: “Does that moralistic attitude bore you a bit now?”
“It’s beyond boring, I think,” Scorsese replied.
Indeed, such takes sound like a holdover from the Hays Code restrictions of the 1930s and ’40s, which mandated (among many other things) that all criminal action in movies must be punished, they must not appear sympathetic, and the audience must be clearly shown that immoral behavior is wrong.
Despite all this, none of them ever resort to calling someone illiterate or uneducated for not understanding their movies, or calling someone lacking skills or guts.
Scorsese gets roasted for his criticism of marvel movies. And chose to clear his stance and explain his point rather than going to needless bull. That is the difference. Whether you agree with POV or not is secondary. But you have to look at the way he is putting his point across. Check out the comments on this article. There is a way to communicate in a civilised manner even when you disagree.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html
Of course, you can defend whichever fragile ego man you want, I'm just showing that success should be met with humility and criticism; even if it seems unfair, it should be accepted graciously. If it bothers him so much, he should refuse to give interviews to these critics. Why does he give interviews and fuel audience for his movies and criticise them the same.
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