James Gunn: Mis películas favoritas

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James Gunn, director de Guardianes de la Galaxia 3, enlista las cintas que inspiran su trabajo. Desde Deadpool, hasta Spider-Man, este es el top 5 de películas basadas en cómics en la lista de favoritos del director ejecutivo de DC Studios.

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00:00I just got a bunch of pictures from Warner Brothers vaults of the actual original costumes.

00:05I think the costume art's really good and it's just without frills because today people have

00:09seen a lot of different superhero costumes. So it's how do you make it look believable? How do

00:14you take this outrageous concept of a guy who flies around and turn him into something real?

00:20Hey GQ, I'm James Gunn and I'm going to break down my top five favorite comic book movies.

00:30I think I'm worth listening to about comic book movies simply because I've made so many comic

00:35book films and superhero films. I've made at least, oh my gosh, I don't know how many superhero movies

00:40I've made at this point, something like six or seven. I guess if you include the movies I produce

00:44like the Avengers movies, then it's really a lot.

00:50Oh, hello. I know, right? Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my very own movie?

00:56I think coming in at number five, I'm going to go with Deadpool. The first Deadpool and the

01:02second Deadpool actually are two of my favorite comic book movies. They came on the heels of the

01:07Guardians film. They were even more of, you know, comedies than the Guardians films are and they were

01:12so well made, so heartfelt and fun and Ryan Reynolds just kills it. I think Deadpool is a perfect

01:18adaptation of a comic book because the comic book is very much tongue in cheek, very much breaking the

01:23fourth wall all the time, talking to the audience. And I think the movie does that really well, but

01:27somehow also keeps it more grounded and gives it a little bit more heart than the comics have.

01:33If you could see me, you'd understand. Looks on everything. Looks are everything. You ever heard

01:37David Beckham speak? It's like he mouth-sexed a can of helium. Think Ryan Reynolds got this far on

01:43his superior acting method? Love is blind, Wade. No, you're blind. Ryan's such a funny guy. I think it,

01:51along with like Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man or Christopher Reeve as Superman,

01:55he's one of the all-time great comic book, you know, icons.

01:58I'm going to say Oldboy. Now, a lot of people don't know that this is a comic book film, but it's based on a manga and it's a Korean film.

02:28It reinvented action and it really ushered in the new era of Korean cinema, which has continued to this

02:36day. They still probably make the best action movies in the world. But as a movie, it's just incredibly

02:41cinematic, incredibly colorful, really kind of gross, but also beautiful and shocking at the end. It has

02:47a real nice twist at the end, so it works on every level.

02:57If there's one scene that sticks out, it's obviously the hallway fight. That was a huge

03:01inspiration to me, and you can see our own version of a hallway fight in Guardians 3.

03:05Different versions of hallway action fights have been great, whether it's in Oldboy or The Raid,

03:11another great action movie. We have one in The Suicide Squad and now in Guardians.

03:19Sorry, do you think we know each other?

03:21You tell me.

03:32My third favorite all-time comic book film is A History of Violence, directed by David Cronenberg,

03:39one of my favorite directors. I love so many of his films, from Dead Ringers to Naked Lunch,

03:45but my favorite movie of his is probably A History of Violence. Viggo Mortensen stars in it. He's

03:50fantastic, and it's a really amazing movie about a guy who's a former killer who's trying to live this

03:57normal life and gets wrapped up in his past. When I saw A History of Violence, I also, like Oldboy,

04:03I didn't know this was based on anything. I didn't know it was adapted from a novel or especially didn't

04:08know it was adopted from comic books and a graphic novel. I just saw it as a movie itself, so it didn't

04:13have to live up to anything. It didn't have to overcome anything. It was just an amazing movie

04:18in and of itself that's emotional and passionate, and the violence and the action is shot really well.

04:24I mean, I really was influenced by A History of Violence. I was influenced by the way that it didn't

04:28play like an action movie. You don't look at it and say, oh, that's an action movie. But if you watch

04:34the way Cronenberg shoots the action sequences in the movie, it's really spectacular and really deft.

04:39I think Cronenberg has a way of turning the world just slightly to see something really ugly about it

05:00in a beautiful way, if that makes any sense. And History of Violence does that. He just turns this

05:05normal American family just slightly and we see into its soul and it's not the most beautiful thing

05:12in the world. There's this wonderful, of all the wonderful things, there's a wonderful sex scene

05:16in the movie between Viggo and his wife on the steps when she discovers, like starting to discover

05:21who he really is. I'm not a big sex scene guy. I don't take sex scenes apart the same way I take action

05:26scenes apart, but I somehow really remember that scene because it was so raw and so passionate and so real.

05:35And usually sex scenes just seem like I'm actually usually waiting for them to be done or they seem

05:41like unnecessary or just exploitative, you know, so this this wasn't like that at all. This was a real part of the story.

05:47Number two, I'm gonna have to go with a movie that changed my life and that's Richard Donner's Superman.

06:08This one is important to me historically. It's a great movie, but it was also a movie I saw as a kid that affected my life a lot.

06:14And I remember seeing it to Paris Cinema in Manchester, Missouri when it was first released.

06:19Strangely, the same exact theater that Jim Lee, who went on to create so many great comics characters,

06:25saw it in and St. Louis because we're both from there. I was taken up in this movie and I remember

06:29when I was a child, I had seen Star Wars and that was like such a big magical moment for me.

06:34And this was the next big magical movie.

06:36What the hell is that?

06:41Easy, miss. I've got you.

06:43You've got me? Who's got you?

06:45You know, at the time they did exactly what we're doing now. They're going through tons and tons of

06:50actors to see who captures that spirit. The thing they don't talk about much when they talk about

06:55Christopher Reed, they talk about his pureness, his hope, his goodness. They talk about, you know,

06:59the way that he plays Clark as being so different from the way he plays Superman and how he can turn

07:04that on in an instant. But there's this playfulness about Superman, this when he's saving a cat,

07:10he's got that wry smile.

07:12Bye, Frisky.

07:16Long now.

07:16And that is one of the best parts of the movie is the playfulness of Superman. He enjoys what he's

07:23doing. He likes helping human beings and he likes saving them. They just did the costume from the

07:29comics and they did it very simply and it works really well. The colors work well. I just got a

07:33bunch of pictures from Warner Brothers vaults of the actual original costumes. I think the costume

07:39looks really good and it's just without frills, which was easier back then than today because today

07:44people have seen a lot of different superhero costumes. So it's how do you make it look

07:48believable? How do you take this outrageous concept of a guy who flies around and turn him

07:52into something real? I think that, you know, what we're doing is different. It's its own thing,

07:57but I'm definitely influenced by what Donner did with Superman and what Christopher Reeve did with

08:01Superman and Margot Kidder, who's fantastic in the movie. She's really the heart of it in a lot of ways.

08:06The Fortress of Solitude is an amazing set. It's really like the look of it was created through

08:19those Donner's Superman movies. And I think it was a magical location that wasn't something that

08:25we're familiar with, but that was so well done and actually built big sets. And that's influenced me a

08:31lot. We have some of the biggest sets of all time in the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3.

08:35It's great to actually have real practical sets for these strange locations. So the,

08:41you know, actors and the crew kind of feel what's going on when we're there.

08:45And it just looks better than having everything be a total CGI fest.

08:53Please keep, wait, wait, wait. How could there be two Spider-Men? There can't be two Spider-Men.

09:01Can there? My favorite superhero movie and my favorite comic book

09:05movie is an animated film. It's Into the Spider-Verse. This movie works from start to finish. It does

09:11not have a bad beat in it. The action is amazing. The emotion is amazing. The voice acting is incredible.

09:17It's well-directed, well-written. And I just don't think that there's been a better superhero movie

09:23than Into the Spider-Verse. I think that, you know, Into the Spider-Verse is truly the first, you know,

09:27comic book multiverse movie. They did it in such a balanced and real way. There weren't a lot of plot holes,

09:33like there are in a lot of these multiverse movies. They thought everything through and

09:38it was just really tight. And if there's one thing I respect a lot in a screenplay, in a film,

09:44is to be elegant and to not be doing all this stuff that goes off from the center of the film.

09:51And it does it. It stays pointed the entire time. Are you from another dimension? Like a parallel

09:56universe where things are like this universe, but different? And you're Spider-Man in that universe,

10:00but somehow travel to this universe, but you don't know how? Wow, that was really just a guess?

10:04Being able to see all these different Spider-Man characters, Miles Morales and,

10:09you know, Peter and all the other characters working together in one movie,

10:13it was sort of a dream come true for a kid who loved, you know, Spider-Man as much as I loved

10:18Superman and Batman growing up. I think that Spider-Verse really influenced me in terms of trying to make

10:24high quality animation that is not secondary. There is an advantage to these animated films

10:29because you do plan out everything. You kind of draw it as you go along. You don't go on

10:34set and film it. It's costing you millions of dollars. And then you come back with the footage

10:38and then you have to see if it works or not. I think it's one of the reasons why there are so

10:42many good, tight animated films. And more often than not, they're better than live action films.

10:48Movies that almost made the list were Deadpool 2, Iron Man, for sure. V for Vendetta is another

10:55one that almost made the list. Spider-Man Homecoming, I think is fantastic. There were a lot of movies I

10:59really loved that almost made the list, but I had to choose five. And so, you know, I may wake up

11:04tomorrow and think I made an enormous mistake that I can't take back.

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