Class Struggle In The Film, Green Lantern

Among all the movies I have watched, the one that caught my attention the most was Green Lantern. This is because of the metaphorical way in which it shows class struggle, the characteristics of the power given to the main character, the imagination, creativity and suspense shown in the movie and the maturation of the main character throughout the movie. My favorite movie, Green Lantern directed by Martin Campbell, is a Science fiction and action movie that shows the life of a human test plane pilot, Hal Jordan, who became a member of an Intergalactic police force called Green Lantern Intergalactic Corps after receiving a green ring from a dying non-human creature. The green ring he received, used his will as source of energy and allowed him

Hegemony shapes the way things look and what they mean to the majority of people. The majority in this case were the lanterns and hegemony shaped the way they taught about humans for a long time. The fact that humans were considered lower than the rest of the living creatures in the galaxy is because a human being had never been chosen to be a Lantern. Humans were therefore underestimated because of their lack of experience. When we look at this movie through the hegemony concept, we realize that if Hal hadn’t received the ring from that dying creature, he wouldn’t have been able to save his planet nor show the lanterns that some humans are capable of more than just nothing. In addition, it took him the advices of his friends to take confidence in himself and save the universe because he was about to quit his responsibility after being defeated and shown his

Hal was defeated and shown his inferiority by another Lantern – a member of the Green Lantern Intergalactic Corps – but however finds the strength to come back to fight. He says, “There is a saying on earth that says ‘I’m only human’. We say it because we are vulnerable; we say it because we know we are afraid; it doesn’t mean were weak.” He came to convince the guardians to fight with him. That is the time where he started rising from being powerless, coward, irresponsible to become the superhero that protected his planet earth and defeated on his own a dangerous foe that was terrifying the whole galaxy. His humanity that was considered to be his weakness was the one thing that allowed him to go back on Oa – the planet headquarter of Green Lantern Intergalactic Corps – because it was his friends that made him understand that his strength was his ability to overcome fear and none of the other Lanterns had this aptitude. He was not as weak as they thought he was. We can learn from Green Lantern how it illustrates the power relationship between the classes. Because the humans were considered as a retarded species, Hal was treated as the lower class and therefore was devaluated. We learn from this situation that it is wrong to judge people from how they look like or from where they come from. Hal’s origin gave him enough