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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Sep 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted BigWood 3030

      This was hilarious when it was just a tweet, rather than the thinking of a jury at a prestigious film festival.https://twitter.com/Th3BigWood/status/1166763938702401539 …

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      BigWood 3030 @Th3BigWood
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Sep 2019

      Circa 1986 this was a thought I had: "It's too bad comic books are so dominated by a single rather eccentric genre, the superhero. I wish they had the generic diversity of film or television." So what happens? Superheroes come to dominate Hollywood.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Sep 2019

          Another example of me being wrong. I read Dark Knight Returns & Watchmen when they first came out & thought, "this is interesting but it's a terminal moraine, an artistic dead end. Superheroes work best when they are bouncy, fun, all-ages entertainment."

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        1. Mingus‏ @Mingus_the_cat 7 Sep 2019
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          And graphic novels exploded around the same time, bringing the generic diversity to comic books

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        2. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          More pirates! Just like 1986 suggested we could have had! On a more serious note, this is a question I have set my film students for the semester. Why superheroes? ('Because blockbusters' is not a sufficient reply, since really that could be a lot of things.)

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @jholbo1

          CGI plus existence of 50 years worth of CGI-friendly interlocking narratives that perfect franchise grist plus audience of millions who encountered some of these narratives over last 50 years plus post-9/11 search for redemption narratives.

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        2. ben schwartz‏ @benschwartz_ 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I sincerely hope it's great and not the incel superhero movie it looks like. Venice insisted on Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and Nate Parker all being there, so I hope "Joker" is more than the logical extension of their "MeToo has gone too far fest."

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        3. The King of America‏ @NewThor 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @benschwartz_ @HeerJeet

          isn't it a little early to be attempting to throw the 2020 election? 😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂

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        1. Misahn Bootay ⚜️‏ @UnmitigatedGaul 7 Sep 2019
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          Read French comics.

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        1. William C Wesley‏ @arrayist 10 Sep 2019
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          My thought was that too many comics, movies and TV shows all line evil up on one side and heroes up on the other, the heroes fight for authority and the villains against it, propagandizing the viewer to believe the choice is clear, always support the status quo.

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