Saturday, August 13, 2022

Why do Superhero movies exist?


#208


I know now.

After every other episode of Marvel's Daredevil and Iron Fist with amazingly and cleanly choreographed fight scenes, I had this newfound energy to be supercharged and finish pending work quickly and efficiently, with no decrease in my stamina level. After binging on so many Marvel movies and series, I can't help but wonder in amazement how creative Stan Lee was wrt types of superhero characters - from superhuman strength to impenetrable skin to producing super-elastic webs to a blind superhero (good diversity there) to Captain Marvel (gender diversity) to tools, armours, and AI that transform a common man into a superhero, to variation in powers like invisibility, size change, elemental abilities (Human Torch, The Thing), to many many more such characteristics!

There's this video where Stan Lee explains that because Spiderman's costume is fully covered, kids can imagine him to be anything according to their imagination wrt skin colour, gender, and more. What happened by accident turned out to be a DEI brownie point!

Whether or not we like watching superhero movies, we can always take the concept and make it our own. May all of us find our inner superhero ability and channel it rightly to do good in this world.


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