Lucrecia Martel turned down 'Black Widow' after Marvel told her not to focus on the action scenes. She now says the sound in Marvel movies is 'very ugly,' adding: 'And the way the music is used is actually horrible.'
“No, no, no — I didn’t see ‘Black Widow.’ I tried to,” Martel said. “They contacted a great number of female directors. I never would have imagined that Marvel could contact and bring together a pool of directors and I would be a part of it; I never thought that would be possible. I would have loved to make a film with them but I would have had to provide something that I would like to see in that world.
Martel added, “It turns out some of the Marvel films are available on planes so I’ve seen a few. I find the sound in them is absolutely in very poor taste, the visual effects and the sound of the effects…It’s the selection of the sounds that they’re connecting to the effects, which is actually very ugly. And the way the music is used is actually horrible.
“I received an e-mail from Marvel for a meeting,” Martel said at the time. “So I went to the [Marvel 10th Anniversary] reunion. I actually signed this thing where I can’t talk about that reunion. Marvel and other such production houses are trying to involve more female filmmakers…What they told me in the meeting was ‘we need a female director because we need someone who is mostly concerned with the development of Scarlett Johansson’s character.
Martel continued, “They also told me, ‘Don’t worry about the action scenes, we will take care of that.’ I was thinking, well I would love to meet Scarlett Johansson but also I would love to make the action sequences.” Disney delayed the release of “Black Widow” several times during the COVID pandemic before deciding to release the film in theaters and on Disney+ at the same time in July 2021. The film grossed $379 million at the worldwide box office.
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