Marvel’s Fantastic Four and James Gunn’s Superman has more common denominators than you think

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It is a suitable time for superheroes. For a short time, it gave a series of faded and badly written films, hurriedly tired the audience and threatened to drop the entire supernatural industrial complex. This summer, however, varies. Although not every movie was a box office winner (We failed in you, “Thunderbolts*”We have seen the most sincere and serious superhero films in the years that appear in a short period of time. Although many fans want to think about the capital and Marvel are polar opposites, they reflect each other. At least, this is the case with “Superman” by James Gan and The new, the most hopeful, optimistic, and universe on the first Marvel family In “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”

Although the two films are completely different – one of them begins its cinematic world, the other is trying more than a supposed reset – they are more common than you think. Both are restored to the iconic heroic heroes – Superman and the invention of the human torch as the sons of superheroes in the capital and the miracle – which are very important to the history of publishers of their comic books, and each of them has gone through badly and unsuccessful films in the past twenty years. But their time in the sun finally came.

Like the new movie “Fantastic Four”, we teach us away from the deep end and to the world of completely investigating heroes. At the beginning of the movie, Fantastic Four was already active for four years (three in Superman) and the movie spends a lot of time exploring the world’s change because of its influence. It is Muslim, it seems that Fantastic Four is the only strong individuals in this world – unlike “Superman” that It was filled by Metahumans for several centuries – But this is a world that has already seen many of the stories of superheroes. The film begins with a montage that explores the history of the heroic family and each of the many bad guys who have defeated them over the years-from the fun man of the mole to Red Ghost and Super-Apps.

This means that the correct movie can focus on the heroes who face a major personal crisis that interrogates their place in the world rather than just showing the learning of ropes. Everyone has full control over their powers, and tension comes to facing the first threat that they cannot fight easily. Likewise, when we meet for the first time in “Superman”, he has already received the love and admiration of the world, and he is very confident in its capabilities. The film begins only minutes after its first defeat, meaning that the character is going through an existential crisis and contemplates what is its place in the world, especially after he learned that his parents wanted him to rule on the ground.

In fact, both films throw philosophical questions in the heroes through the dynamics of their characters. In “Superman”, we see Louis and Clared argue over whether Superman should interfere in foreign affairsWhat is the salad that the truly super hero enjoys, and whether to perform a suitable protocol to replace him – and the tension that these conversations create has an effect on romance. In “Fantastic Four: First Steps,” Sue and Reed they argue about the responsibility of their “family” to the world and whether this responsibility is more important than their commitment to each other.

To this point, both films focus on showing the effect of their heroes on ordinary people, and they show that ordinary people interact with heroes. This is only missing from this super kind. Again in the very early days of Marvel Cinematic University. This was an important part of the films, as we saw the heroes providing ordinary people all the time, entering them into safety, and offering comfort while their worlds collapsed. Nowadays, this is almost completely lost, with high risks that there is no way to care for individuals – that is why “Thunderbolts*” felt emotional and emotionally destroyed.

“Fantastic Four: First Steps” continues that with a great focus on the relationship between the luxury group and the public, with crowds gathering in the streets to encourage heroes when they leave the Earth to find a way to stop Galactus or their nuts when they fail in it. We see more of them saving people all over the story more than already hit the bad guys (in any small part because Galactus simply represents a very big threat to hitting, literally). Likewise, throughout the “Superman”, we see Clark go out on it to prevent any harm from reaching people, saving children from the rubble, saving a dog and even a bond of crushing it by Kaiju space. This approach makes the heroes look more friendly and heroic as well.

One of the best serials in all “Fantastic Four: First Steps”, Ben includes a reception and chanted by a group of children who want to raise a car (then throw it). Meanwhile, a citizen in Superman was honored at a time when the major blue scout stopped from his food cart for some delicious food. We forget to fight the great bad man, this is what it means to have superheroes.