It is strange or, at least, unusual for the
Marvel universe to
quote Shakespeare.
Scarlet Witch and Vision
, the series created by
Jac Schaeffer and directed by Matt Shakman,
does.
With boldness even.
He does it literally in one of his chapters more meticulously out of control and, in a hurry, always metalinguistically. Just aired his highly anticipated outcome of what is already the second great success of Disney + after
The Mandalorian
, it is confirmed that the adventure halfway between
Pleasantville
Y
The Truman Show
Not only has he smashed all expectations and shut his mouth for good to a good many of the irreducible anti-Marvel skeptics, but he has also, all of a sudden,
rewritten the rules of inter-platform warfare
that has occupied us since before the pandemic locked us in the addictive bubble of the dining room. "The only way forward is to go back" is heard at a given moment and that is what it is all about.
Against the bulimic model of Netflix, one episode a week.
Old-fashioned and letting the longing for what is to come spread online.
Against the timeless and classic HBO broadcasts of almost an hour per installment, just over 20 minutes (six hours spread over nine episodes).
Against the inspiration in kingdoms of other distant latitudes, a return to the universes with his consolidated followers (Marvel).
Against the evidence of the rules of the superhero genre, a brilliant argument that reflects on the origin of sitcoms as well as on cathodic alienation.
Strictly new and perfectly old TV.
All at once. The result is that no chain has grown in such a short time as much with so little as, indeed, Disney +.
As those who have never read Kuhn would say: we are thus witnessing a paradigm shift. «It has not been an intended effect.
We did not want or intend to broaden the audience.
It is a satisfaction that everyone now wants to interview you and not only the magazines or websites related to Marvel, but the story was already there in the comic book literature, "says director Shakman via Zoom. His comment seems to be part of the autorecursive loop in which the series itself lives.
In it, the story of the
sitcoms
It is traveled from
The Dick Van Dyke Show
to
The problems grow
going by
The facts of Life
It is TV within TV in a not always identifiable journey to the bottom of memory.
From the 50's until now.
Without bursting anything, the cited series and many others are inspired by the unreal and magical world created by the character of
Elizabeth olsen
to recreate and recover your Vision (
Paul bettany
).
But of this, one more risk, the unannounced viewer finds out in the third chapter.
Precisely in the last two
sitcoms
Shakman himself worked as an adolescent actor.
I feel a bit like The Scarlet Witch.
She explores her past and in a way the whole series with that recreation that she does of television in which I worked as a child also recreates my own life.
It's a loop within a loop »
says the director in his labyrinth. The latest installment, today's, does not disappoint.
Put each piece of the puzzle in place and, with a couple of scenes added, give new clues for more.
It's a conclusion that is both euphoric and perfectly sad.
And very
shakespearean
In the third act of Hamlet we saw the murder of the king before the usurper in a play that was performed within the play itself.
Play in scene.
Hamlet himself places himself not far from us to become a spectator of himself, an interpreter of his existence.
What if we ourselves in the stalls were just one piece in the prince's plan to humiliate his stepfather?
Some of this is in
Scarlet Witch and Vision
"I had a television history teacher who was convinced that if Shakespeare lived, he would write for television.
And right now, for the Marvel Universe.
If you look closely, the Bard wrote, in order, comedies, then dramas, tragedies, and finally works like The Tempest that defy genre.
I want to believe that there is the series ", comments Shakman proudly. And what would you say to
Scorsese
so against Marvel and the platforms?
«I am an admirer of his cinema, but it is still paradoxical that someone who defied the rules of cinema in the 70s is now the one who wants to
impose them on all of us ».
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