Friday, November 1

Ridley Scott blames the millennials for the failure of his film “The last duel”: “They have grown up glued to phones”


Matt Damon, Ben Affleck y Ridley Scott en la premiere de la película
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Ridley Scott at the premiere of the movie “The last duel”.

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The movie “The last duel” came preceded by great expectations for being the project that would bring together again Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in front of the cameras and also as scriptwriters, not to mention that it also featured Adam Driver and Jodie Comer -one of the fashionable actresses thanks to the success of the series “Killing Eve” – as part of the main cast.

For all these reasons, the poor result that the film obtained at the box office was a real surprise, and its director Ridley Scott , responsible for titles such as “Gladiator” or “Blade Runner” , it didn’t take long in looking for culprits. Spoiler alert : He has found them … In his opinion, the poor reception of his latest project is the fault of the current generation of viewers, specifically those born between the middle of the decade of the 80 and late 90 .

“I think it all boils down to the audiences that we currently have, who have grown up glued to those bad cell phones. To the millennials, who do not want to learn anything unless you teach it to them through a cell phone ”, Ridley lamented in an interview in the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” . “I am speaking in general terms, but I think we are dealing with the same issue right now with Facebook . It is a wrong path that has been taken and that has given the wrong confidence to this last generation , I think”.

In any case, having faced the greatest financial failure of his four-decade career has failed to get the filmmaker to consider whether he failed when it came to tell the story of the last legal duel to the death that took place in France. “I have never had a single regret for any movie that I have made. Absolutely. I learned very early to be my own critic. The only thing you should form an opinion about is what you have done. Keep going. Make sure you are happy. And don’t look back That’s how I am ”, concluded Scott.

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