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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
      Replying to @AryehCW
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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 7 Sep 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I more or less agree but I feel the universe-building - so important to comics readers - is actually less crucial to film-watchers, although they don't mind it. And there are so many more ways to redeem yourself than by wearing your underwear on the outside! More must be said!

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

      I would also like to read the following essay: "Star Wars" is to Flash Gordon/John Carter as superhero films are to comics in the 60's-80's. There is a nostalgia parallel. Blockbusters need to be nostalgic for earlier pulp.

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

      There's something to that but really people were trying to adapt Marvel stuff into Hollywood from 1960s onwards. It just took time for the tech to catch up.

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

      True. CGI was a necessary condition. But there is some extra special secret something superheroes have that even other blockbusters may lack, if the box office is any indicator. They are the BEST flavor of potato chip. I'm not sure exactly why.

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

      One aspect is that under Kirby's influence, superheroes have become a kind of meta-genre that has absorbed material from other genres (the mystery man, action adventure, space opera, soap opera, war, westerns, detective etc.). Has become flexible

      9:04 PM - 7 Sep 2019
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        2. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          That's a good point! Magic plus science fiction and everything in between.

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        3. Jonathan Korman‏ @miniver 7 Sep 2019
          Replying to @jholbo1 @HeerJeet

          The Marvel Comics songbook has literally ALL of the properties one wants in a media franchise http://miniver.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-perfect-franchise.html …

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