MCU: Joss Whedon explains there won't be a director's cut of Age of Ultron, and that the Biblical paraelles between Ultron and Vision were intentional · 7:03pm Jul 13th, 2015
When asked by Collider if there'll ever be a director's cut of Age of Ultron, Whedon had this to say:
WHEDON: It has always been my ambition never to do a director’s cut of anything, and always to make the movie with the studio that we both want to make. Ultron was very complex. There was a lot of back-and-forth. My instinct is no. Just as an artist, I’m super fucking lazy and that sounds like it would be hard. I don’t think there’s interest in it, right now. You’ll see a bunch of stuff on the DVD in extras that were meant to be there. But the narrative came together very close to the way that I hoped it would, and I don’t think it needs me to constantly tweak it. I feel you put something out, and there it is. The first time I ever heard a re-mix, I was 13 and I was listening to the radio. I heard a song that had been re-mixed and it freaked me out so much that I turned off the radio and never listened to it since, literally. That is an actual truth. I felt like, “Wait, that was the song. You can’t do that.” Our entire culture consists of doing exactly that, but I’m not for it. If I tell a story, I want that to be the story I told. Ultron may have some transitions that I’m not 100% on board with. It’s also one of the most ridiculously personal things I’ve ever put on screen. The fact that Marvel gave me that opportunity and supported it, I’m very happy and very proud of everybody that worked on it. I don’t feel the need to go in and fix. I feel like, there she is.
And then he was asked about how Ultron is supposedly an Old Testament figure, and Vision a New Testament figure within Age of Ultron, and if he originally planned it that way:
WHEDON: There’s a lot of Christian iconography going on because everybody in that movie thinks that they’re the savior, including Tony Stark. It’s like, “Dude, look at your beard. You’re a supervillain!” We evoke that stuff mostly because it’s resonant to the idea of whether or not we can solve something, whether or not we can evolve, and whether or not we can be our best selves. Obviously, I don’t want to say The Vision is Jesus and Ultron is the mean guy from the First Testament. I don’t want to be specific, but everybody is obviously going to bring that into play. There’s a shorthand to it that people understand. When somebody starts talking like that, they need to be shut down a little bit. As far as The Vision is concerned, he actually is a step above. What I love about him is Paul Bettany. When I took my first Avengers meeting, ever, on the first one, I said, “I don’t know if we should do this, but if you do a second one, it has to be Ultron, and then he has to make The Vision. But they have to put Jarvis in The Vision, so that Paul Bettany can play The Vision ‘cause only Paul Bettany can play The Vision. And three years later, I got to call Paul and say, “Will you do this thing?” God, he’s so good! Maybe my favorite thing in the movie, and maybe the thing that I’m proudest of, is the conversation with Ultron at the end where he’s just like, “Humanity is doomed,” and The Vision says, “Yes.” It gave me the chills/creeps so much that we finally made a, “We know he’s worthy,” kind of thing. We know he’s a pure being, and yet he very dispassionately is like, “Oh, yeah, these guys are over,” but with love. That is interesting to me. All of the religious overtones and all that iconography is deliberate, but it’s meant to be not vague but interpreted individually.
I'm gonna let you all read his comments alone, and hide my grumpy commentary under a spoiler bar, so if you wanna ignore it you can.
It's no secret that I loathe Whedon and, especially, the utter disaster that was Age of Ultron in my eyes (here's my review). These comments just help fuel by fire. For one thing, the Ultron/Vision comment just shows his ignorance of the basic tenants of the Christian faith, but I'll decline from doing a thesis paper on that, since I am not a Biblical scholar, and in a way, I feel trying to explain all that would just make him puff out his arrogant chest all the more.
And just so you know Mr. Whedon, remixing something is just as valid as writing the original song. You're basically having another artist reinterpret and have fun with the work of another, and thereby help show how much they love it. Get off your damn high horse and shut the fuck up.
You asshole.
Ya knooooooow......
You are basically feeding Whedon with his favorite food, right?
He loves salty things.
And that's a lot of salt you are emitting.
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3234953 It's not like I'm sending this to his twitter or anything.
And like I give a flying fuck what Whedon thinks of me.
He's an idiot.
Just when you thought Whedon couldn't get anymore stupid and insensitive. At least he'd consistent in his stupidity.
Ignoring the gross oversimplification of the Old and New Testament that I've seen far too much of to even emote about it any more, the fact that they even had to ask if he intended to put those implications there indicates to me that the interviewer probably didn't even care.
3243813 or is just a starry eyed fanboy
3243839 How could even the most enthusiastic of fans possibly not recognize Ultron's blatant religious phrasing as anything but intentional?