Martin Scorsese is a fan of the Barbenheimer phenomenon and says it ‘offers hope for cinema’

In case you’re wondering which director Martin Scorsese thought of everything Barbenheimer phenomenon that made audiences flock to cinemas to watch it Barbie AND Oppenheimer, it turns out he was a fan! She said the whole thing was “something special” and “offers hope for cinema”. During an interview with The Hindustan Times, the director said:

“I really think the combination of Oppenheimer and Barbie was something special. It felt like, I hate this word, but the perfect storm. It came at the right time. And the most important thing was that people went to see them in a theater and I think it’s wonderful.

“The way it fit together perfectly – a film with such entertainment value, purely with the bright colors – and a film with such severity and force, and practically about the danger of the end of our civilization – you couldn’t have more opposite films to work with together. It offers some hope that a different cinema will emerge, different from what has happened in the last twenty years, apart from the great work done in independent cinema.”

I remember the times when so many exciting and fantastic films of different genres always came out in theaters on the same weekend! This just had a fun, catchy name that stuck and people ran with it. Both films were incredibly successful at the box office Greta Gerwig’S Barbie earning $1.47 billion worldwide. Christopher Nolan’S Oppenheimer ended with a global haul of $939 million.

I don’t know if we’ll ever see another Barbenheimer because this is the kind of thing that comes naturally and can’t be forced. It was lightning in a bottle. But it proves that multiple great films can be released at the same time and be successful at the box office! More, please.