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Perplexingly, the film is effectively the sequel not to one but to several films at once: or rather, it’s the point at which other movie sequences converge. Ellis hits the nail on the head when he talks about the film as a “sequence of connections.” In fact, it comes across as a movie that’s somehow all connections and no sequence-at least, little coherent narrative, not as we usually understand coherent narrative to be. Having made a point of reading as little critical writing as possible about the film, before and after seeing it, the idea of Avengers: Infinity War as an experimental film-or at least an “extraordinarily unconventional” one-strikes me as entirely plausible. to try and present them as being “really” experimental cinema in the guise of mainstream product. One of the many Infinity Wars tweets I read last week bemoaned in advance the predictable rush to produce “hot takes” on the film, another criticized what it saw as the already fatigued strategy in writing about such blockbusters, i.e. Then there are those more skeptical observations on the film, in more, let’s say, high-minded or at least less partisan organs, such as this one-a field of commentary which has already formed its own tropes and styles of approach. The latter includes tweets, blurbs, “paid editorial” in reputable newspapers, explicating and celebrating the film and its mythos, online features speculating on the film’s loose ends and on where Marvel movies can possibly go next, and fan commentary parsing with Talmudic exactitude the sources of individual images or moments in the film, tracing them back to specific frames in specific issues of specific comics. The film resembles that gauntlet in that, placing all the pieces of the Marvel universe together in one shiny de luxe vitrine, it creates the power to generate infinite material: not just revenue ($808 million worldwide in a week, at time of writing), but also a seemingly infinite amount of text. The central premise is a set of six cosmic gewgaws called Infinity Stones which, when collected and inserted one by one into a sort of special presentation gauntlet, give the wearer infinite power. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, this film picks up and assembles various strands that were worked through previous Marvel episodes, not just in the Avengers films themselves. The novelty of Avengers: Infinity War is that it manifestly isn’t just another superhero movie: it aspires, if you like, to be the ultimate superhero movie, or a compendium of all possible superhero movies. But you won’t know it’s not for you until you’ve paid your entrance fee-and over the last week, so many of us have.
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Individual audience members shouldn’t feel alienated, out of the loop the motto could be, “No viewer left behind.” Plenty of people will feel left behind by Avengers: Infinity War, but then this is a film that divides its audience almost like a cult: if you’re in the know already, if you have all the information needed, then you’ll understand if you don’t understand, you’re not a true believer, the movie’s not for you.
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It’s normally understood that audiences should be given all the information they need to understand a narrative, as thoroughly and as economically as possible it’s normally forbidden to leave spectators baffled. I like that-not a “film,” not an episode in a series, but a “story event.” It’s true: Avengers: Infinity War doesn’t adhere to the standard rules of Hollywood narrative, or to the conventions of a sequel. It is a sequence of connections.” Ellis, whose work includes Transmetropolitan and Hellblazer, as well as Marvel titles including Iron Man and X-Men, is well placed to comment on the strange logic of comic book narrative in general, and in this particular case, on “what is often an extraordinarily unconventional story event.” It is not ‘a film’ as that term is commonly understood.
INFINITY WAR SERIES
The nineteenth in the series of Marvel movies-the crowning piece in this phase of the ever-expanding edifice that is the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe- Infinity War is, Ellis says in his blog, “perhaps best understood as an unprecedented brand power move. The definitive word on Avengers: Infinity War may have been said this week by comics author Warren Ellis.