DOCTOR STRANGE Gets its Influence From the Supernatural Martial Arts Subgenre



Today is the day that websites who visited the London set of Marvel's DOCTOR STRANGE, in early 2016, get to publish their on-set reports. While most of these set visit reports are literally a copy-paste of each other, with the same questions and same answers, we here at DailySuperhero.com have combed through all those similar reports to find and bring out the most important information for you.

One of these bits of info involves what kind of subgenre DOCTOR STRANGE is taking influence from. Films like ANT-MAN (heist films), CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (political thriller), IRON MAN 3 (technological thriller) and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (space opera) are just a few of Marvel Studios' films and their respective subgenre influence.

Sure, director Scott Derrickson comes from a background in the horror genre, so there's going to be some influence there, but the real influence in DOCTOR STRANGE comes from the supernatural martial arts subgenre. Derrickson disclosed this, via SlashFilm:

"There’s definitely a martial arts influence on the movie. Because that is the action that I like for starters. It is also martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural. There’s a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema. And I felt like when it came to fighting in the movie that just made sense to certainly to go in that direction and stay away from gunfire and things like that. And to avoid having fighting be the casting of bolts of light. That was another thing where I feel like I really feel like magic has been, we’ve been drawing on the Emperor in Star Wars for over 30 years, you know, and so we gotta start doing this some other way. You know, the magic power, the utilization of magic power. But there’s some good fighting in it. But that fighting is again, always within a context of something I think more fantastical and more surreal and more mind trippy than just the supernatural action of combat. I think that it’s always supernatural action, combat, fighting within a larger surreal canvas. That was the thing I always wanted to preserve so that we’re never just watching fighting."

DOCTOR STRANGE releases in the states on November 4.


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