Paul Dano, an actor who has lately been given time to contemplate Hollywood main movie phenomenon, aka the superhero fatigue surge, has voiced his views on the trend. Critically acclaimed actor laughingly summed up his career opus by commenting, “My favorite superhero films are Robert Zemeckis’ “Back to the Future” trilogy and Alan Pakula’s “The Parallax View.” Nevertheless, his single genre of departure with Matt Reeves’ movie is an exclusion, though it is face facts that the impressive screenplay and Reeves’ vision leads the way.
Companies in the industry receive an opposite feedback: they spend a lot of money on production, budget of high magnitude and, naturally, they are less popular than they were before. This has sparked debates concerning how such flicks would catch up with the larger populations and being repetitive has made attendees weary of them.
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The actor takes his genres far beyond just superhero genre by basing his critique on the broader industry trend of shooting for higher number of contents goods than the high-quality products.
According to Dano, this transition in the industry from aesthetic appreciation to mass production created a type of creative stagnation that he considers irrelevant to the viewers and not helpful to artists themselves.
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Dano’s thoughts are demonstrative of an overall pattern in this industry that tangibly, the superhero craze has reached its peak and with this, new possibilities options for corner creativity may be on the way.
Just as it is difficult to ascertain whether this is going to be a redefinition of the superhero genre or the introduction of new story-telling techniques it is still too soon to tell. What is apparent is that Dano, like many others in the field, are advocating for putting worthiness and originality as the primary goal of the entertainment industry.
