What a twist! The comments are better than the article
Re: Edgar Wright Exiting Ant ManSo, I do have some empathy for Wright. I can kind of see how frustrating it must be to have a project you've been wanting to do for a really long time, have it almost looking like it's going to happen, and then having rewrites
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Agreed. I feel like there's a lot of meat in the MCU movies. And, honestly, in a lot of genre fiction. Lack of clarity/narrative consistency does not automatically equal art, and just because something is designed to be appealing to lots of different people doesn't mean it lacks meaning (and sometimes it can be even more meaningful, simply because real people are seeing and understanding it).
I mean, I saw plenty of symbolism in Winter Soldier! Just as an example, the idea that Bucky's mask as the Winter Soldier is an opposite of Steve's. Instead of being there to protect him, it's there to muzzle him, etc. That's just the first thing that comes to mind. And the movies are FULL of symbolism like that, and people pick up on it because they have a dedicated fanbase that's capable of catching ALL the subtext.
I mean, all of the MCU movies have really tight, internal visual metaphors. IM3 has a different aesthetic than The Dark World has a different aesthetic from Winter Soldier. Avengers is a perfect example of a movie with a really tight visual metaphor. Even the color balances in that movie have a theme - like, just look at the movie barcode for it. Like, there are lots of different shades of green and blue and orange and red, and then the end is almost all white, like colors in the spectrum forming white light. Which is a really abstract, subtle way of conveying the idea that different elements are coming together.
I want Ant-Man solely for the purpose of getting Cassie Lang and the Young Avengers someday.
That would be awesome!
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