These days, it’s become de rigueur for iconic, heavyweight filmmakers to either weigh in on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its cultural hegemony or to be asked about it.
One of those recent dissenting voices has been Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather” trilogy), and while he’s criticized the genre in the past, he seems to like at least one modern superhero film.
While Coppola, like Martin Scorsese, has often complained about the soulless of the MCU, in a recent interview with Variety, the “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker admitted he very much enjoyed Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool,” the atypical, fourth-wall-breaking superhero movie with R-Rated gory action sequences, and raunchy comedic beats.
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