The Avengers is a 2012 super hero film featuring multiple heroes from the Marvel universe. It features a range of stars from previous Marvel films including Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. and Thor’s Chris Hemsworth, among many others. When this film was released it was met with wide spread praise, and it is easy to see why. The film offers so much more to the audience than just action sequences and cool costumes, it is actually a well thought out and executed movie. One interesting thing about the movie is that each of the main characters have a unique goal in the film, but they are all able to work together. Each character has a different back story and role in the context of the film. Thor and Black Widow are fearless leaders, Hulk and Captain America are heroes that are haunted by personal issues, and Iron Man is the comic relief. They all join the team at different times for different reasons. Black Widow is called in to help recruit Bruce Banner, Captain America and Iron Man are approached in person, and Thor joins because he has a connection to the mission. Hawkeye is with Nick Furry from the start, but is under Loki’s control for a majority of the movie. They all go through their own struggles, but they support each other through it,
All of the male characters are portrayed as typical physically strong characters. However, they all have their weaknesses. Iron Man can be seen as arrogant and full of himself. Bruce Banner has problems controlling his anger while Thor and Captain America are both stand offish and cold. Hawkeye is also a physically strong, take charge, male character. However, his downfall in the movie is that he spends most of the time under Loki’s control, but this isn’t really his fault. Despite this all the characters are heroic and can be looked up to, which is why they are consider the heroes in the
Men are looked at as brave, selfless people and are perceived as heroes all throughout society. Johnson addresses this point saying, “The idea of heroism, for example, has been appropriated almost entirely by patriarchal manhood. From movies and television to literature to the nightly news, our ideas of who and what is heroic focus almost entirely on men and what they do” (548). Since men have power in this world, they have generated a society that pleases them. Superhero movies are a huge money maker in today’s world. But, the most popular superheroes are exclusively men such as Batman, Superman, Captain America, The Flash and The Hulk. This media only feeds into the ideology that men are the heroes in the world and they are the ones making sacrifices for others. They see a world that appeals to them and do not see a reason to mess with the system. Kilbourne writes, “When power is unequal, when one group is oppressed and discriminated against as a group, when there is a context of systematic and historical oppression, stereotypes and prejudice have different weight and meaning” (499). Men now see patriarchy as natural and how life should be. They can look back at previous generations and see that they succeeded with patriarchy and feel they should do the same. Men see absolutely no reason as to why they should relinquish their position of
Batman and Superman are superheroes whose qualities are exaggerated in a way that is reminiscent of the gods and heroes in The Odyssey. In Fact, the superheroes from comic books emerge from the epic tradition. Epics, as you know, celebrate the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes. This epic hero is generally involved with a quest to overcome hardship, and he (and it usually is a "he") succeeds. The hero performs superhuman exploits in battle, often saving or founding a nation or the human race itself. Sound familiar? And even in terms of the superhero's body, with his bulging muscles and larger‐than‐life qualities, such figures evoke the images of Baroque masculinity. What Becomes important in these retellings, then, is how the hero makes the journey, how he faces his obstacles, and what he learns in the process.
... is not simply defined by his/her strength or looks; it is also their inner strength and beauty that is truly important. A hero can have many qualities but when they show true understanding for something even without proper education, they are accepting of those around them, and breaking rules when the time is at its most important. While there are true heroes, there are also anti-heroes which have the opposite qualities that of the true hero. Furthermore, there are many kinds of heroes but a true hero is defined by inner qualities that of outer qualities.
Heroes, the unordinary beings with extravagant abilities, from powers and competence to skills and talents. Heroes are people who are idealized by society for their courage and individuality. Iconic and well recognized heroes like Hercules, Superman, Spiderman and Achilles are some of the few heroes known around. All heroes have a similarity to each other, for example Beowulf and Batman. While both can be considered great heroes, they differ significantly, yet are similar in other ways.
Hawkeye at first does not want to get involved in the war he only wants to
In multiple instances throughout the film, female characters violate gender norms by acting as both warriors and leaders because they are adapting typically masculine traits. In the film, women are the majority of the labor force in Iron Town. Men are merely there to do the labor that needs the most physical power. “Americans oversimplify Japanese women as demure, submissive, and oppressed” (Kyu Hyun, 2002, 38). This quote shows that the stereotype of women in Japanese culture was just like the western perspective where they were below men.
John Wayne epitomizes masculinity, and did throughout his tenured Hollywood career. He is regarded as an iconic male actor on account of his voice, height, and mannerisms. Wayne’s female counterpart, Maureen O’Hara, was antithetically famous for her stunning beauty and typical portrayal of a heroine. Their character’s tumultuous relationship and the obstacles they face accentuate the internal struggle that a masculine family man must face: torn between serving his country and serving his family.
Most of society defines masculinity as strong, non-emotional, independent, and competitive. Femininity is typically thought of as weak, nurturing, soft, and emotional. Most media has begun to redefine the way society thinks of typical characteristics of men and women. Disney/Pixar seem to be a big part of this redefinition as Gillam and Wooden point out in their article “Post-Princess models of Gender: The New Man in Disney/Pixar.” An example of this happens in Disney’s “The Pacifier” when Lieutenant Shane Wolfe defies his masculine role by showing his nurturing side while taking care of the Plummer children, becoming Lulu’s den mother, and helping produce Seth’s musical— “The Sound of Music”.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (CA:TWS) was the long awaited sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (CA:TFA), which was released in 2011. It features Chris Evans as Steven Grant Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, Scarlet Johansson as Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. The Black Widow, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, a.k.a. The Falcon, and Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier. The movie takes place two years after the events of The Avengers (2012). Steve is still struggling to adjust to modern times, after being asleep for 70 years. He works in Washington D.C. for the espionage agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division). Joining forces with the Black Widow and the Falcon, Steve struggles to expose a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D, but he and his team soon come up against an unexpected enemy. Captain America: The Winter Soldier can be rhetorically analyzed in perspective of message, purpose, and audience.
3b. The books talk about the masculinity or tough man representation in crime films. The book also talks about the prison and the power to reform. A prison is a place where people are supposed to pay their punishment but it is also a place where people are humiliated like what we see in American History X when the guard yells and talks in an unprofessional manner to the inmates. Prisons are inhumane. Derek was reformed not by the prison itself, but by the actions of his fellow inmate who changed Derek’s perspectives towards minorities in particular to African Americans.
Being a hero means that one can show courage when it comes to facing a problem. It is a person who helps others in many ways, such as a person in danger. In the modern era, the creation of superheroes have become popular when it comes to producing films. Viewers can choose their favorite heroes due to the idea that there a many of them. However, most fans argue which superheroes are better. Two of the most popular superheroes are DC’s Batman and Marvel’s Iron Man. Although Batman and Iron Man are loved by many viewers because of how they help people in danger, they still demonstrate imperfections which can cause viewers to dislike them. However, both superheroes share similarities and differences between themselves. Batman and Iron Man have
With the rise in the popularity of television in the 50’s and the ensuing price decreases throughout the years, media has become one of the most pervasive agents of socialization in children. Currents statistics of TV ownership give credence to this fact, with 96.7 percent of all American households owning sets. (Stelter 2011) Because of the fact that the influence of video media is so widespread, it is imperative that we recognize the effect that it has on people, especially children during the phase of primary socialization. One of the largest and well known content producers in the realm of children’s media is The Walt Disney Company. Disney Is responsible for countless films that have, beginning with their first feature film in 1937 Snow
In western culture, heroes are the one who gave us positive power to fight for the bad things until the end. And those heroes are always presented by Male. Batman and Iron Man are strong in muscle but the power that they can save the world is based on they have money or not. Because they are the rich people and they have their own company, they hav...
This paper has thus far outlined how not only the United States’, but militaries in general, are inherently gendered and favor men and masculinity. These structures have been used in the past and today to keep women out of the military and/or out of combat positions. Even though Secretary Carter opened up all combat positions in the U.S. Armed Forces to women in December 2015, there are still gendered mechanisms in the military preventing women from achieving equality with their male counterparts, in more ways than one. This paper will now address just one of these current effects, arguing that the gendered military institutions are preventing women from the ability to register for the draft.
Believe it or not, there are some female heroes too! They portray heroes in a different way though.