For this blog we had to write about what comic book movies we have seen and what can we say about the genre. I have not seen many, but the ones I have seen are the Spiderman series, the new Batman, and Superman returns.
There are defiantly common themes among these movies, with the most obvious, to me at least, being that the “good guy” or in this case the “superhero” always wins, no matter what. And they usually win against all odds, surpassing insurmountable obstacles.
The next theme I would say that is common in all these movies is that they are incredibly obvious as to what the overall theme of the movie is. They pretty much go out and tell you what it is about and any real character depth and/or substance is not there.
The superheroes are all always white. I have yet to see a movie with a superhero being played by a minority actor. Maybe it is because all the characters in the comic books are most of the time white, but I am just stating an observation.
There is always a girl in the story, usually white, and incredibly helpless. She really cannot do anything on her own, is madly in love with the superhero, and her whole life is based around him.
The last part is that the hero usually always has some kind of tragic flaw of some sort. It does not matter what it is, but they always have at least one weakness that the bad guy almost always exploits.
Those are the things I have noticed when watching comic book movies, hope this blog was informative and enjoyable
1 comment:
"The superheroes are all always white."
I take it you haven't seen Blade? Or X-Men? Or Mystery Men? Or even Men in Black?
While the superheroes are often white, that's not always true.
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