Luc Besson Calls Captain America Propaganda

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Luc Besson thinksCaptain Americais " propaganda . " This is n’t the first meter that he hasrailed against superhero moving-picture show , previously saying that he finds protagonists with world power hard to touch to , and stating his orientation for more normal , blemished heroes . Besson is of course far from the first filmmaker - or moviegoer for that matter - to express fatigue with the now constant onslaught of superhero - establish pop culture , as it sometimes seems like well-nigh every potential superhero is now getting a film or idiot box show made about them .

For computer address , in 2017 alone , Marvel has expel or will soon releaseGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2,Spider - Man : Homecoming , andThor : Ragnarok , while DC ’s 2017 docket includesWonder WomanandJustice League . Over on Netflix , Marvel already releasedIron Fistseason 1 this yr , withThe DefendersandThe Punishersoon to follow . The CW continue to be dominated by DC heroes , FOX hasGotham , and ABC continues to air more than one Marvel show . 2018 wo n’t facilitate up the tempo either , with the arrival of the mammothAvengers : Infinity Waron the sensible horizon .

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This clip out , though , Besson has opted to make his superhero picture show literary criticism less general and more specifically targeted , going after the star - spangled man himself . While Captain America continues to go through all kinds of controversial change on the comics Sir Frederick Handley Page , Steve Rogers in the MCU continue a citadel of morality and heroism , despite his current undeserved position as a " war criminal . " Despite this , Besson believes Captain America to be nothing more than pro - U.S. propaganda . Here ’s what he had to say toCinePopon Youtube recently .

" What bothers me most is it ’s always here to show the supremacy of America and how they are capital . I intend , which state in the world would have the backbone to call a film Captain Brazil or Captain France ? I mean , no one ! We would be like so ashamed and say , ' No , no , come on , we ca n’t do that . ' They can . They can call it Captain America and everybody guess it ’s normal . I ’m not here for propaganda , I ’m here to say a taradiddle . "

One wonders if some of Besson ’s literary criticism add up to slight more than sour grapes . His most late film , Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , perfectly bombed at thebox officein the United States , with a current worldwide total of only $ 89 million on a $ 177 million budget . Critics also mostly dislike it , which stomach in jump contrast to last year’sCaptain America : Civil War - a movie where Captain America goes against the desires of the US administration - which was a vital darling and haul in over $ 1 billion worldwide , $ 745 million of which came from outside the U.S. Clearly they did n’t mind the " propaganda . "

Another part of Besson ’s point that does n’t entirely make mother wit is his complaint specifically about America calling a picture show franchiseCaptain America . Considering that Cap has existed on the comics page for many decades longer than he has as a pic star , what was Besson expecting Marvel to do , rename him for moving-picture show purposes ?