I think more people agree with you on this than you think, or even they think.
fwiw i understand most people don't care about superheroes. adults obsessing over magical caped crusaders — seems silly, maybe. but the genre speaks to the deepest foundations of our culture; i think there's almost nothing more important than how we think about the hero.https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1196503961659793408 …
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word, and second part of that is really it i think. based on the box office alone it's clear people are craving reconfirmation of these values.
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Uh sure, but did you miss the part where the heroes espouse all of the political and cultural values of the ruling class?
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Ah yes I love the scene where Rocket Raccoon endorses the bombing and collapse of Libya
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i think of superheroes as our modern greek pantheon. same purpose minus the religious aspect. idealized role models and enemies, inter-pantheon drama as moral lessons, passage of cultural ideals
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fair enough - my own view is that they are like porn for heroic action. And like you say, there is good porn and bad porn, but too much can drain your erotic energy. The one stat I would point out is that with more and more hero movies we have less creative daring than ever.
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Bingo. It's not inspirational, it's a release valve
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(1) Superhero films are the last place you’re still allowed to portray heroic people doing heroic things. These archetypes are fundamental to how we see ourselves. Yet I suspect that in today’s environment any portrayal of “kinetic” heroism outside of the blatantly ludicrous...
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(2) world of Marvel/DC would be panned by the self-proclaimed cognoscenti as naive or low-brow or chauvinistic. Critics seem to prefer novellas of suffering.
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Did you like the Joker?
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