Over the past decade superhero movies have rapidly gained popularity. These fairly straightforward movies have been low-risk, high-reward for producers and have therefore stormed into mainstream pop culture. In the past producers were cautious of straying away from this formula because of its success. However, in 2016 the movie Deadpool revolutionized what a superhero movie could be. In the movie the main character, Wade Wilson, takes part in an experimental procedure to save his life; however, Ajax, the man who runs the procedure, tortures Wade Wilson, which transforms him into Deadpool. After the torture Deadpool gains a greatly enhanced healing factor and hunts down Ajax. The massive success of Deadpool has given other companies …show more content…
the confidence to create more mature and unique superhero movies such as Logan in 2017. Deadpool demonstrates how taking a risk to be unique can yield astounding results. Deadpool is all about breaking the rules.
While the movie follows a fairly familiar superhero movie plot, Deadpool is vastly unlike any superhero the world has ever seen, and he knows it. Several times in the movie Deadpool breaks the fourth wall by talking directly to the audience. Also he takes stabs at the clichés of other superhero movies by challenging the reason for being a moral superhero. For example, at the end of the movie Deadpool’s ally, Colossus, is giving him a speech about how he should spare Ajax’s life, but midway through the speech Deadpool kills Ajax and says, “if wearing superhero tights means sparing psychopaths maybe I wasn’t meant to wear them.” Because Deadpool lacks these traditional superhero attributes he is classified as an antihero—a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic qualities. In addition, throughout the movie there are incredibly crude and unsuspected lines from Deadpool, as well as, obscene displays of violence such as the scene in which Deadpool cuts his own hand off to escape from handcuffs after saying, “You ever see 127 hours? Spoiler alert.” This risky decision to include mature content in Deadpool earned the movie an R rating; however, it paid off, demonstrating that a maverick can
succeed. Deadpool embodies the saying “Don’t be afraid to be yourself.” This movie shows that people appreciate originality. The superhero genre had become so “copy and paste” over the last decade that taking the risk to try something new paid off. The success of Deadpool has prompted other companies to make more comedy based superhero movies, as well as, movies such as New Mutants scheduled to release next year as the first horror based superhero movie. The ingenuity and the success of Deadpool has made the entire superhero movie industry much more unpredictable and enjoyable by expanding the definition of what these movies can be. Ultimately, the main reason Deadpool was successful was due to the fact that it was something new. Of course there are other important components of Deadpool that made it a popular movie; however, at the core audiences loved it for its unprecedented take on a superhero movie. Anyone can copy something that is successful. For example, the iPhone changed cell phones from something used primarily for communications into devices that are used more to access the internet, play games, and set alarm clocks than to actually call people. Consequently, other companies saw the iPhone’s success and copied it. Deadpool’s originality, similar to the iPhone, is the main reason it gained popularity. Based off of the massive success of these two products, it is evident that people appreciate those who take the risk to be different.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is full of elusive, charismatic and heroic characters. Marvel has grossed billions of dollars in making family friendly movies for all to enjoy, However, a year ago, production for Marvel's most adult, foul mouthed superhero changed that. Deadpool is perhaps one of the most advertised movies to date, drawing the attention of everyone around the world, even those who essentially don't know who the hero is. Deadpool has become more and more prominent in the MCU as of late, due to a steady stream of social media ads that increase the characters fanbase. Deadpool himself didn't catch the attention of moviegoers,
Stanley Martin Lieber, or as the nerd world calls him, Stan Lee, found national renown by building the Marvel Franchise into what it is today, a multi-million dollar company that publishes comic books, shoots movies, designs video games, and creates their own television shows.
The film Blow started off at the begging of George Jung’s life in Massachusetts where he and his parents lived. Life was great for George until his dad was not making enough money to support his family. Bankruptcy soon came and problems starts to show as his mother kept leaving and yelling at his dad who was trying his hardest working fourteen hours a day to support for the family. When George gotten old enough in 1968 he and his friend moved to California to move away from Massachusetts. In California is when George started doing drugs, because the locals were doing drugs all the time as if it was normal. There his first drug was crack and he inhaled the drug more than once a day every day. Then started to buy crack to sell to as many people
Comic Cinema has become more inept to show the visual comedy and instead rely on sound, particularly dialogue. Take the scene from comedy film Old School where Will Ferrell tries to explain to a group of college kids why he cannot drink. (Figure 1.9) In a cinematic standpoint the scene just seems is a simple shot reverse shot of a grown man and a couple of college kids who seem to disapprove of his decisions. The chunk of the humor lies solely in the dialogue and the way the characters in the scene react to the one speaking. Since the introduction of sound and cinema, audiences have been more drawn to the pleasures of the act of hearing and seeing that they need less and less from both instead of a masterpiece of both. Visual comedy will always
There have been major changes to the superhero archetype in comics in these recent years as compared to the past. Along with that arises controversy on the subjects like the new female Thor or a black kid as Spiderman. Many are zealously against such changes for reasons like sexism or racism. While many others are fervently behind such changes because they use it to empower their own political views on today’s topics. These topics are important to today’s society however they should not be so important in comic books because comic books should be value-neutral and gender, ethnicity, sexuality and things of this nature should not matter.
During those ages when we are just a little kid, we dreamt to be a superhero that could protect the world from being attacked or destroyed by enemies. We always worship to the superheroes that we liked when we watch the superheroes movies. Not only that, we also even act as them by using a scarf, tie on our necks and crazy around with our friends. Recently, I adored with two kinds of superhero movies after I watched them. Those movies are The Kick-Ass 2 and The X-Men 2 which mainly attract teenager’s attention nowadays when they plan to watch a movie. However, there are many differences between these two superheroes movie that we could see from their abilities, costume, and even their operation when they fight criminal.
In 1941, Stan Lee, the creator of the Marvel universe, released his firs comic book about the patriotic hero Captain America. This comic was released during World War 2 to give the Americans a sense of hope and to let people know that we’re not alone. Marvel does a good job with its comics because they want to show you that even when times get tough, as long as you have hope things will get better. A good example of this would be Spiderman. When his Uncle Ben died, his last words to Peter were, “With great power, comes great responsibility.” Spiderman goes on to
Disney is a company that almost everybody has either seen, heard about, or been to. Throughout the years that Disney has been making movies, some people have been saying that Disney shows stereotyping through their movies. Even though some people do not notice these stereotyping images, some people do notice them and do get very offended. Disney has been around since the early 1920`s when “Walt signed a contract with M. J. Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies — this date is considered the start of the Disney company first known as The Disney Brothers Studio”(Wikipedia 3). In the past, Disney has had many different claims about stereotyping, but nothing was really done about the issues. Despite claims that Disney invents perfect role models for children, Disney actually creates their characters based upon stereotypes.
powerful in a film like this as it can bring up the rating of the
The Marvel cinematic universe is known for having a family-friendly and loving tone, and their movies are usually action packed with a touch of humor. The director for the Avengers, Joss Whedon, takes a lot of pride in his films, and he tries to add humor whenever possible. This is seen in the second Avengers film, Avengers: The Age of Ultron. There is a scene where Captain America and Iron Man are having a debate on their use of language, and during a mission Captain America asks Iron Man to watch his profanity. This is a reminder that the film is primarily targeted towards children. On the other hand, DC like to keep their movies gritty, serious, and almost somber. In the great film Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice the character’s use profanity is another way of expressing their thoughts. They are not necessarily censored, but still
Deadpool was directed by Tim Miller who may be known by many people as being a good director. This may attract people into watching the movie. It was wrote by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Ryan Reynolds was the main star in it (Deadpool). It was released to cinemas on the 10th February 2016. The rating of Deadpool is 15. Deadpool has been a very successful superhero movie
Reynolds plays the sarcastic, former Special Forces soldier and ridonculously over the top, potty-mouthed avenger/antihero, Deadpool. Ridoncuolous, yes that is a word, just ask Mr. Pool. Deadpool, formerly known as Wade Wilson, undergoes a rogue, experimental treatment in an attempt to cure his terminal cancer. The gloomy experiment leaves him with accelerated regenerative powers and a serious case of full body psoriasis, (AKA, your girlfriend won’t love you anymore skin condition).
Marvel Worldwide Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide 's parent company.
The director of Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) has introduced the audience to a feeling of aspiration through a variety of different techniques and captures the viewer’s attention to the smallest details with great success and deliverance to become the character that is Peter Parker.
According to Comichron, the comic book industry made an estimated amount of $1.03 billion last year from both print and digital sales. There are so many people involved in the comic book industry, but there is a problem major with gender discrimination. Today women outnumber men in global attendance and graduation rates, but still somehow get paid less for the same job. A woman is running for president, athletes like Serena Williams are household names, and pop culture is replete with feminist heroines our foremothers could only dream about. Yes, generally speaking, it's a pretty good time to be a woman. The comic book industry is one place that still has not evolved as rapidly as we would all like, but it is trying. In “In a 2015 study by