Lately-as in the last decade or so- I’ve been noticing a problematic trend in every superhero movie (and a few TV shows). This trend that seems to be supported by the studios and the government is a reductive and socially damaging idea designed to make us complacent and helpless to save ourselves from the tenor of the times.
I call it a trend, but it’s really more of an idea, put into our heads Inception-style in a way I’ve only noticed since Batman Begins. The idea can be summed up as: Change is bad.
This idea is populated throughout superhero movies, along with this idea that heroism is a born trait that cannot/should not be learned. I mean, if Tony Stark can make next-level tech in a cave with a box of scraps why can’t anyone else? Well, according to Iron Man 2, if a poor man makes an arc reactor, then it is automatically used for evil. In real life, Whiplash would be a sympathetic character whose life was unfairly ruined by Tony’s dad’s sense of patriotism, but in the movie, we are supposed to jeer at him for suggesting the main character’s family of weapons merchants and billionaires could ever be anything less than the milk of Christ.
And then there’s The Dark Knight Rises, whose climax involves Batman raising an army of cops to, for lack of better wording, “put the poors in their place”. But the poors are led by Bane who wants to destroy Gotham for being corrupt, as per the League of Shadows’ charter you say. Funny how the evil bad guy in the movie is embraced by the desperate and downtrodden, wouldn’t you say? Did I mention this movie was made during a real life event (Occupy Wall Street) where poor people protested the corruption of the rich? The very wealthy who bankrupted the country and were rewarded with more of our money for it?!
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Christopher Nolan
Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, Arrivals, CinemaCon, Las Vegas, USA – 29 Mar 2017
I mean really, Christopher Nolan.
This is because all of Hollywood is forced to kowtow to the United States military via the US Office of War’s Bureau of Motion Pictures. That’s right, you heard me: every studio (and by unwilling extension the creatives that work there) is bribed to kowtow to the Military-Industrial Complex. To make movies, the screenplay has to go through a military bureaucrat to be “approved”. For a movie in Hollywood to get approved, any references to America as anything other than a shining beacon of freedom and the light of society have to be removed. If the American military is involved in the movie the same goes for them, or the military will not advise the filmmakers on military things. It is very hard for a movie to be made in Hollywood without an okay from the Bureau of Motion Pictures.
Some would call this a symbiotic relationship. I think of it as parasitic, a jaboot on the throat of truth and creativity. And where superhero movies are concerned, it takes a manipulative and wicked turn. Casting those who wish to make the world better as bad or having evil ulterior motives (Killmonger and Bane fit both of these molds) puts the idea in the heads of the people that cannot be escaped and seems impossible to deny: the idea that change is bad and we’re bad if we want it. And that message is antithetical to humanity.
I have to apologize for the lack of updates. Been fighting a months-long case of writer’s block, but I am still here. Hope you’re all doing good and keeping well.
You seem to be confused about who makes you your billions every year. That is why I am writing this-to… clear up a few things.
First of all, workers deserve to be paid enough to live on. Fast good employees or actors, doesn’t matter. They work for their livings, they deserve to be compensated adequately.
Now, I know what you want us to think—“these actors are rich and overpaid!! Let them die out!” And while that may be the thinking of the ignorant, it isn’t T R U E though.
Most of Hollywood’s talent are broke. They came there to LA—a cesspool where beautiful dreams die horrible deaths—for a chance to be a part of the industry. For every George Clooney, there are several hundred unknowns, several hundred cast as extras, several hundred who aren’t getting roles due to age.
And while you got the ignorant of the nation thinking they are laughing at spoiled Hollywood hacks, you conveniently forget to mention they’re all sabotaging themselves. What you never mention (except to your colleagues in the boardrooms) is that if this strike errs in your favor you will have no problem going after the rest of us. Because your lust for money is insatiable.
But the more you take from your own workers, the more you abuse us, the more we build our resolve. And when you end up with nowhere to run, when all your “friends” abandon you, we will remember how much you did to us. And we will return it a hundred fold.
I’m not saying it for shock value, either. I’m totally serious-fuck is a versatile word!
It can be used to describe pleasure (“Fuck me, this pie is delicious!!”) pain (“FUCK!! I stepped on a LEGO”) disgust (“oh my fucking lord, what are you doing with Grandma?!”) hell, it can even describe horror (“oh fuck, he’s coming for me”)
It can be used at the beginning of a sentence (“fuck you”) the middle (“you fucking idiot”) the end (“what the fuck?!”) and even as almost every word in a sentence (“fuck you, you fucking dog faced motherfucker”)!!
It is usually used for shock and emphasis or to describe how good/bad something is. People are sensitive by nature, and will feel offended by the word, but that’s part of its allure. It is like the forbidden fruit of vernacular-everyone hates when it is used, but it is used all the time.
From its humble origins in the German language (the German word fick) it has become a word used to word over, in all languages! whether you use it to tell someone off in Italian (“Vaffanculo!!” or “fuck you”) or Japanese (“Zakkenayo, Anya baka!!” “Fuck you, idiot!!”) fuck is the world’s cuss.
I fucking love the word fuck, the most versatile and offensive fucking word in language!!
I cannot for the life of me understand why apocalyptic media is so entrenched in our movies and tv shows. The whole idea of “the world has fallen and now humanity relies on seven people in a bunker who have to fight each other for cans of beans and a biscuit” is not only stupid beyond reason, but it is against human nature!!
Humans are at their best in groups, we are social animals! We’ve managed to tame apex predators such as wolves and through genetic modification made them the dogs they are today! Next time you complain about GMOs let it be known your pet pug is a GMO! You wouldn’t want anyone to talk crap about lil Pugsley, why are you?!
The idea of humans being savage without some big government to keep them in line is libertarian nonsense! Leave it to the folks who are ashamed of being called republicans (when that’s what they are) to imagine a world of Bunker Bills bum fighting each other when they could work together.
If I had the ear of everyone in the entertainment business, I would say this: Stop imagining the apocalypse and the dystopia, start imagining the revolution and the rebuilding!!
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