The Marvel Cinematic Universe has radically reshaped the Fast & Furious franchise
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Over the past decade, the unprecedented box-office takings for Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe films have ensured that blockbuster cinema has almost exclusively become the domain of the superhero. All the major studios have attempted to follow the gold-brick road: some directly, with superhero franchises of their own, such as Warner’s DCEU and Sony’s freshly renamed SPUMC, and some tangentially, by creating an interconnected universe of recurring characters to draw on, or by applying the Marvel format to films that used to be run-of-the-mill action flicks.
The heart of this format is the MCU’s bright, polished, CGI-driven aesthetic, which permits only the lightest flavors of each entry’s directors, maintaining a smooth and consistent visual style underpinned by lively color palettes, large setpieces that make full use of their characters’ super-status, and a straightforward approach to filmic time, cinematography, and editing. The universe’s heroes are attractive and safe, doing and surviving things physically impossible for the average Joe, aided by all manner of futuristic technology and suitably altered physical laws. This glossy, all-encompassing mode brings together marketing, merchandising, and everything seen on screen into one neat and easily digestible package, using a simpler cinematic language that funnels the features into one continuous stream of boundaryless cinema.
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