Is there such a thing as a summer movie in a summer where we can’t go to movie theaters? alisonwillmore and BilgeEbiri discuss
In the grip of the pandemic, is there even such a thing as a summer movie? Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos Courtesy of Studios Memorial Day Weekend has, for decades now, kicked off a season of cinema appreciation know as the summer movie season.
Ebiri: How did the summer movie season idea even start, though? A/C has been in movie theaters since before the coming of sound, so it wasn’t just A/C, I don’t think. The real culprits I suspect were Jaws, Star Wars, and teenagers — the demographic that Jaws and Star Wars helped turn into the American movie theater’s core audience. But over the past couple of decades, that idea seems to have changed.
Willmore: Get Out may have come out in February, but it felt like a summer movie to me — audacious and dark and clever but also just deliriously enjoyable and made to be watched with a rapt audience. The Marvel movies, on the other hand? I can’t entirely explain this, but even though they should seem like the essence of summer, sweeping and quippy and quick with the action, they only sometimes achieve the right lightness.
Willmore: I think it has a lot to do with the idea that something that’s artistically weighty has to be work to consume — and conversely, that something that’s overtly entertaining must be stupid. And while that idea is bullshit, it has stuck around and can be traced to, say, a plague of terminally dour late-peak-TV prestige dramas that treat darkness as interchangeable with intelligence.
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