De bittesmå scener under eller efter filmens rulletekster er særligt takket være superheltefilmene blevet fast inventar i Hollywood de seneste 10 år, så selv James Franco ikke kunne dy sig for at tilføje en kuriositet til slut i ’The Disaster Artist’. Ikke alle klapper i hænderne over de ofte komiske bagateller uden for filmens handling, særligt ikke James Mangold.
Instruktøren af den Oscar-nominerede X-Men film ’Logan’ gav sidste torsdag sin vrede til kende ved Writers Guild Association Beyond Words Panel, hvor han ifølge Digital Spy skulle have kommet med en dundertale imod de såkaldte post-credit-scener.
»Nu har vi faktisk gjort publikum afhængige af en fucking bonus i rulleteksterne. Det er fucking pinligt. Det betyder, at du ikke kunne afslutte din fucking film. Selv hvis du har 100.000 Twitter-afhængige, som spiller på, hvilken fucking scene der kommer efter de fucking rulletekster, er det stadigvæk snyd«, lød det fra Mangold, der fortsatte:
»Post-credit-scener sælger den næste film, mens du laver den, og det er frem for alt dét, jeg finder fucking pinligt. Publikum beder rent faktisk om scener i rulleteksterne, selvom disse scener først var udviklet til ringe film. Så man putter noget ekstra på i slutningen for at opnå en bedre karakter, når filmen ikke kunne lande ordentligt på sine egne fucking fødder«.
Tre dage senere uddybede Mangold kritikken i en lidt mere neddæmpet tone på Twitter. Den erfarne instruktør bag solide film som ‘Cop Land’, ‘Walk the Line’ og ‘3:10 to Yuma’-remaket stiller først og fremmest spørgsmål ved den kunstneriske motivation bag de ekstra scener i de store franchise-fortællinger, som han frygter får funktion af »serialiserede pengemaskiner«.
1/ Many folks commented on my diatribe re: end credits scenes. Good points made by some who disagree. My vehemence comes from a belief these scenes r cinematic MSG/crack. Of course they feel good. They are designed to do that, like ads, as they hook you to buy the next film/s…
— Mangold (@mang0ld) 4. februar 2018
2/ and at the same time, I feel like the omnipresent expectation of them cheapens the integrity of a theatrical experience as the movie doesn’t stick its ending but rather dribbles to an end with a series of pleasing vignettes/ads for the thing they will sell you next year…
— Mangold (@mang0ld) 4. februar 2018
3/ So its not so much the scenes I despise as much as I fear that movies (an art form I deeply love) are not advanced when they are no longer functioning as a form with a beginning middle and end but rather as part of a serialized money machine.
— Mangold (@mang0ld) 4. februar 2018
These scenes promote a slightly false sense of fully realized “universe” as if everyone behind scenes knows exactly what’s next in a saga, when the truth is a bit less charted despite what many tell a sycophantic press that makes $ on the “universes” & the gossip mill they create
— Mangold (@mang0ld) 4. februar 2018
Lastly, the term “easter egg”‘s a bit infantile &, at least 2 me, feels condescending toward a thoughtful & intellectual audience that might be treated w/ more respect than imagining them as kids jumping around trying to guess storylines from breadcrumbs dropped by corporations.
— Mangold (@mang0ld) 4. februar 2018
One more thing. The argument that these scs. make people watch end credits is just lame. If you have to offer shiny objects to keep people watching the names of the crew, then they are not showing an ounce of respect for the crew. Just waiting like dogs for milk bones.
— Mangold (@mang0ld) 4. februar 2018
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