This article contains spoilers For “Superman”.
The landscape of the comic strip film from the 2020s is far from being also in the balloon that it was a decade before, with Marvel and DC projects which have trouble resuming their momentum. There is a crazy amount of pressure on James Gunn’s “Superman” to not only be a good full -fledged film, but also for Shepherd DC Studios in a brand new superhero border – and the film reflects it. Part of the first wave of reactions from those who saw the film leaned more on the positive side, and Chris Evangelista of the film landed in being a charming pleasure of the crowd in his criticism. I find myself somewhere in the middle.
Gunn was responsible for the most coherent film series in Marvel with “Guardians of the Galaxy”, but his “Superman” is a little more shaggy. He often feels frustrating overwhelmed, to the point that his emotional beats hardly feel like having room to breathe. It is trapped between being a “Superman” story and a crazy point of an introductory course to the DCU (DC universe). That said, David Corenswet makes a delicious superman who feels lovingly accessible to the people of the metropolis on the ground level. I loved the moment when Kal-El lets a good Samaritan average help him get from the sidewalk despite being perfectly capable of doing it of his own will. I have always found myself attracted by the character because he sincerely wants to be a good person.
One of Gunn’s biggest calls at the helm is his affinity for some of the stranger aspects of Silver Age comics. “Superman” embraces the more silly nature of the character, his environment and his enemies, especially with regard to Lex Luthor. Nicholas Hoult plays the megalomaniac billionaire who commits political embezzlement with the fervor of a petulant child who hugs when things do not work in their favor. Lex does everything possible to make things more difficult for everyone in the process. It has all the resources of the world, but is not satisfied when someone like Superman gets all the glory to be simply the most powerful metahuman of the earth, and there is a very funny metatextual view that reveals the real extent of Lex’s involvement in the public image of Superman of Superman.
Lex’s rage-based keyboard monkeys hold a mirror at the worst internet trends
Halfway through “Superman”, public opinion radically moved Kal-El after having revealed to the world that his Kryptonian parents, Jor-El (Bradley Cooper) and Lara (Angela Sarafyan), sent her to Earth to Lord for Humanity. The missing half of the message that provides this information initially seems to be a Lex stratagem. However, it seems that the translation is legitimate, putting Krypton’s son in a difficult situation. Lex takes the pleasure of imprisoning Superman in his spacious pocket prison, which holds a certain number of political prisoners from various governments, dissidents of Luthor Corp and even ex-girlfriends of Lex. The craziest revelation of this bizarre prison is a horde of howling monkeys manufacturing online anti-Super-Super indignation on social networks thanks to hashtags like #Secetharem and # Supersh **. (The last one disturbs especially Clark.)
As I saw this, I laughed aloud at the lengths of Gonzo Lex will go thanks to his insecurity, as well as certain internet sects completely normal On this subject. Lex de Hoult is absolutely the kind of person who would tweet merciless in his office chair at the top of an ivory tower with his name on it. This is the kind of joke that should not surprise anyone who pays attention to the development of the DCU, because there was a predictable resistance to the promotion of Gunn to the co-PDG of the DC studios. He had already directed “The Suicide Squad” and season 1 of “Peacemaker” for the previous DC regime, but he then received the keys to the kingdom. Pressing the restart button came the nail in the DCEU Zack Snyder Vision coffin, which rocked some feathers among unconditional fans. It is even funnier since Gunn and Snyder have very publicly shown that they are quite cold with each other.
It has become clear, however, that Snyder’s brooding approach in the equipment simply did not connect with the general population. Before anyone who got angry with me, let me say clearly that the four-hour cup of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is a phenomenally daring miracle of a comic book that I really liked. At the same time, there is no way that it was done in other circumstances than the period when it was authorized to exist. Nevertheless, the Legions of Snyder were responsible for some of the hashtags and the most disturbed harassment campaigns that you have ever seen – especially in the “Superman” of Gunn. You swear that Gunn personally kicked his door and used a DC Studios brand launcher to incendialize his Blu-ray Snyder. However, it would be stupid to only credit toxic fans as a source of a joke like this.
Gunn is no stranger to online harassment, whether it is a question of demystify scandalous rumors in quasi-quota or to deal with the anger of the clutches on the right. The latter particularly worked in his favor, since this indirectly led him to hold the DC bag in the predictable future. There is also this false tumult online on Superman being an immigrant emerging from the most dishonest intellectually imaginable people. This shows how necessary the interpretation of the character by Gunn is given how a certain sub-section seems to have forgotten the basic principle of the history of the character which has been there since its creation in 1938.
Do you like Superman? Do you hate Superman? Be just nice
He has trouble joining his own message sometimes, but the most admirable feature of the “Superman” of Gunn (and the DCU) is that he is built on a kindness basis. The emphasis is put on the people and their humanity in the midst of a world governed by super-villains. It is a shame that being a thoughtful person today is considered an act of rebellion. Cruelty – online or otherwise – has reached unfathomable levels. It is a low bar to have a blockbuster director, not to mention a CO-PDG, to approach this publicly, but I am happy that Gunn is able to transmit something. The only way someone could be legitimately upset by the unleashed social monkeys is if he saw himself in these creatures that classify Clicky on the screen.
One of the worst trends for online online users is so trapped within the limits of their toxic bubbles that it leads to unleashing or creating rabies supplied by hatred. The Lex monkey farm is a perfect showcase of how some people act on the internet. During the first lots of “Superman” projections, the most common conversations that occur were the criticisms labeled like shills or paid enemies, and I unfortunately do not see this trend disappear anytime soon. I do not know how many times we have to say that, but there is no coordinated plan to ruin a film when a criticism gives a less than favorable criticism. When you focus on the score that a film receives on Rotten Tomatoes and what other people Think, it is too easy to lose your own feeling of identity in the process. This only makes Snyder / Gunn Fans with a level head.
There are many more things on which to be vitriological than a film in which a flying human foreigner saves a green baby from the elementary being while fighting an antagonist in an anti -rated river. Being normal on comic strip movies on the internet may seem an impossible task, but I promise it is possible.
I do not remember how many times I wanted to publish something stupid and impulse, I looked at it for a good minute and I decided not to do it. Being on social networks is essentially to ask for attention a few path. It’s in the name. And if I can offer unsolicited advice, the next time you publish, just examine if this message is what you want to leave as a digital imprint. We have all done stupid online stuff, but it is never too late to stop and be a decent person, lest you not be able to look like a network of furious monkeys typing in a dark and empty vacuum.
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